Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Happy birthday, Paula!!
Today is my bestest best friend’s birthday. My BFF, as my teenaged daughters might say. But she really is. Paula is one of those friends you can go three months without talking to, and when you do reconnect, you just pick up where you left off as if not a day had passed. Paula and…
-
THE SPECIES CROWN by Curtis Smith
In June of this year, Press 53 released Curtis Smith’s most recent short story collection titled The Species Crown. Smith is also the author of the novel An Unadorned Life and two previous short story collections, Placing Ourselves Among the Living and In the Jukebox Light. This was my first chance to read a book…
-
Ron Currie Jr.
If you read one review for my friend Ron Currie’s just released book God is Dead, read this one. It’s an excellent, insightful review and the reviewer clearly “got” the book. Go Ron!
-
No Reason Not To
I have a newly published story up at the lovely e-zine Southern Hum!
-
The Help McSweeney’s Sale
Visit and buy.
-
St. Thomas, UVI
I am in St. Thomas for a coral reef conference that begins tomorrow. I love the Caribbean, but I’ve never been to any of the US Virgin Islands before. It’s like being in the Caribbean with none of the non-US hassles. US currency, US outlets…it’s such a lovely place and the people have been very…
-
Topsy the Elephant
Stephan Clark has an excellent new short-short up at LA Weekly. You can read it here. And you should.
-
Ray’s Road Review
A new ezine has launched, Ray’s Road Review and I am thrilled to have a story in the inaugural issue alongside Cliff Garstang, Sandra Novak and Carl Moore! (And poetry by Beebe Barksdale-Bruner.)
-
LOTTERY by Patricia Wood
Perry L. Crandall would like you to know that he is not retarded. Retarded would be 75 on an IQ test, and he is 76. Besides, Perry takes care not only of himself, but also of his Gran, a crusty, no-nonsense woman who loves him for who he is and lets him shine his light…
-
Whale DNA proves illegal "bycatch"
New Scientist has published an article about how DNA technology is being used to establish the number of Minke whales being taken illegally in North Korean waters.
Got any book recommendations?