WikiLeaks has been all over the world news headlines this past week after the Daily Beast reported that Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning released 260,000 classified documents to the controversial journalism network. Wired.com has followed up on story with reports about Manning’s conscience and WikiLeaks’ intention to provide him with legal help. In related news, [...]
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Back to Business
It’s been a long, strange month since I last posted here, and now I have 37 drafts to catch up with. If you haven’t heard, I’m now a resident of the Republic of Saint Kitts and Nevis, located in the Eastern Caribbean. My girlfriend is attending vet school at Ross University, which means we’ll likely [...]
Daniel Pinchbeck and the Evolver Social Movement
Back in February when Kaliptus was planning the Tryptophantasia event, his friend Salma posted an interview with him on the site Evolver.net, a new social network with the slogan “It’s our world to change.” Naturally, I signed up for the site right away (here’s my profile). I quickly learned that Evolver is connected with an [...]
On Reading a ‘New Release’ Book
You may have noticed from my discussions that I don’t read much modern literature. I think Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Choke might be the only works of narrative prose (i.e. – fiction or creative nonfiction) published within the last 25 years on my bookshelf at home. (Correction: I also have Nick Horby’s novel High Fidelity, [...]
The Flawed Art of Literary Rejection
In early December 2009 I submitted my lengthy essay “Indecision Over Michigan” to the Cooperative Press, a branch of the group Michigan Writers that helps emerging writers publish a chapbook in the literary genre of their choice. It’s a program intended to educate new writers on the entire publication process. As it says on their [...]
A Reminder of Why I Made Supraterranean
This week while searching for freelance work, I happened to find the web site for Poets & Writers Magazine, the self-proclaimed “primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers.” Their home page currently features an article called “Agents and Editors: A Q&A With Four Young Literary Agents.” It’s essentially a five-page interview arranged [...]
