Countdown to CONvergence 2014
Countdown to CONvergence 2014! Are you excited? Continue reading Countdown to CONvergence 2014
Countdown to CONvergence 2014! Are you excited? Continue reading Countdown to CONvergence 2014
On Being Human, by Karl Wolff, gets a profile in On Wisconsin Magazine, the alumni magazine for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Continue reading On Being Human @ On Wisconsin Magazine
“Just imagine this place without queens in it. It would be absolutely barbaric.” — Candy from “And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens …” (circa 1970, unpublished one-act play), by Tennessee Williams Continue reading Commonplace Book: Tennessee Williams and the importance of queens to American culture
Joris-Karl Huysmans elucidates the philosophy of “bros before hoes.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Joris-Karl Huysmans, the Perpetual Optimist
“Like One” is a beautiful anthology of poetry created to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing. Continue reading Like One: Poems for Boston, edited by Deborah Finkelstein
Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: an Illustrated Historical Study By Kenneth Florey McFarland Reviewed by Karl Wolff The book, Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: an Illustrated Historical Guide, by Kenneth Florey, examines the stories behind the objects that were instrumental to the suffrage movement. The focus is primarily on the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and the United Kingdom. The study sees the women’s suffrage movement through the lens of political culture, pop culture, and material culture. (Material culture being the actual physical products of the suffrage and anti-suffrage movements.) As with other political movements, the suffrage movement coincided and exploited advances … Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia, by Kenneth Florey
Dr. Egon Spengler thinks print is dead. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Ghostbusters on print media
This week Karl Wolff reviews “Crystal Ships,” by Richard Sharp, a novel about surviving the Sixties. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Crystal Ships, by Richard Sharp
At a reduced price, CCLaP Journal #4 has great reviews, featured photographers, and an interview with Cory Doctorow. Continue reading CCLaP Journal #4 is here!
On Being Human Redux is an essay series that looks at serial killers, clones, the Culture series, a Beckett play, bunnies in Beatrix Potter and Richard Adams, and adroids. Continue reading On Being Human Redux: Further looks at books and movies that examine the question of humanity