Holy moly. What a busy couple of weeks. As you can see by the dearth of posts to this blog, I have been occupied elsewhere, including a wedding, a conference, and several other things. The wedding was great. I was the official photog, but I was also a guest. Autumn and I had a fabulous [...]
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NMS 2008
During the final panel of a conference last year, a panelist tried to squeeze a 15-page paper into his allotted 20 minutes. He read so quickly, that I’m not sure what his paper was about. Therefore, I decided that I would never go to a conference and read a paper again. The following video is my presentation for the Norman Mailer Society Conference for 2008.
Jesus & Norman Mailer
I’m in the process of composing my paper for the Norman Mailer Society’s annual conference. Here’s the proposal: I moved to the American South almost six years ago. About that time, I was introduced to Norman Mailer’s work. Both gave me an interesting perspective on America, its values and its problems (sometimes stemming from said [...]
SpecFic Writing Storm
I’ve spent most of today at Panera trying to write my article on Speculative Fiction for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Fiction. My due date is September 1, but I got an extension to October 1 due to my recent setback. My job is to write 3000 words that defines SpecFic within the context [...]
Goethe’s Faust
Goethe’s Faust is a complex work of literature that is concerned with the place of humanity in the cosmos, the striving of its protagonist beyond his human confines, the implications of his going too far, and the consequences that his quest have on his community.
Mailer Published
The Paris Review published my photo of Norman Mailer. It was taken during the Society‘s annual conference in October 2006. The journal actually credits me, not under the photo, but on the contributors page in the back (180). It would have been ultra cool to have had my name under his photo. Still, pretty darn [...]
Gibson’s Merging Realities: “The Gernsback Continuum”
While many critics suggest that “Gernsback” metafictively comments on the need for change in sf, from the utopian visions of the golden age of science fiction to a more socially critical and culturally conscious expression, others suggest that it and the collective dreams that it embodies plays a continued role in what Bruce Sterling calls a modern reform of science fiction.