Friday, August 5, 2016

Hear the Screams of the Butterfly

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My novella, Hear the Screams of the Butterfly, has been published by Transcendent Zero Press. It can be purchased through Amazon .
Sunday, February 14, 2016

An Interview with Me on Poetry, Economics, and My Upcoming Novella

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My novella, Hear the Screams of the Butterfly , is finally going to see the light of day. It is being published by Transcendent Zero Press a...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

World Factory -- A Play

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Audience participation is a rare, but not unheard of, tool in the playwright's toolbox. One of the more famous -- especially, perhaps, f...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

How a Poem Is Produced

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How does one write a poem? Or any work of literature, for that matter? But let us take poems, since I am a poet, and I can speak about how i...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Why Should Westeros Have a Central Bank?

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Adam Ozimek at Forbes has an article asking Why doesn't Westeros have a central bank? The article makes it clear that Ozimek believes a...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Dickens' Love of Money

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Few truly understand the degree to which Dickens was pro-market. He rather quickly learned to become an astute businessman, and he became q...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of the Novel

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In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber famously argued that there is a connection between the rise of Protestantism...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Love of Literature and the Literary Order

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Studies such as “Loving Literature: A Cultural History”  by Deidre Shauna Lynch, as discussed by Joshua Rothman, can provide part of the sto...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Genius and the Need for Social Networks

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After writing this post on the death of the genius, I recently read a little about the role of Richard Wagner's social network was cent...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Role of Current Institutions on the Content of Literature

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Mark Hubbard has an interesting post on his blog that addresses the ideological state in which we find most contemporary literature. A warn...