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“What if?” is the essence of genre fiction. What if monsters were real? What if mankind had faster-than-light travel? What if there was a world…
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Speaking Truth to Power
I’ve written a lot of reviews and critiques. Books. Movies. Employee evaluations. Employer evaluations. Submissions to a writers’ group I was in. Long ago I…
Non Serviam: Some Thoughts on “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” by James Joyce
Almost ten years ago now, in the first quarter of my first year of college (at Western Washington University), I went to the Newman Catholic…
Episodic Writing vs. Mythic Arcs
A Vintage Blog Post About Writing and Attention Spans Now, I’m not a writer for television (though I’m available–call me, really), but I’m an avid…
Finally Got It Down or Jerry Stahl and his story Kicking the Horse
Oh, hello there, blank page! It is being typed with Times New Roman font.Why not: Themes Old Catholic, Days Old Gregorian, Best Somehow Baltic, Zuzhelitsa…
The Somnolent Critic’s Quick Reviews: Fiction, Jan.-March 17, 2022
The Feast of the Goat (by Mario Vargas Llosa) Year of publication: 2000 (trans. 2001)Print length: 404 pagesPublished by: Picador USA This is the first…
The Somnolent Critic Reviews “God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican,” by Gerald Posner
Year of publication: 2015Print length: 513 pagesPublished by: Simon & Schuster “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”-Matthew, 6:21 The Roman…
Convincing you to read Kafka on the Shore
Do you ever wonder about all the people you will be meeting in the future and how we all might be connected by invisible strings?…
How To Be The Best Version of Yourself
This article is inspired by David Gikandi’s ‘A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now’. We often hear…
Notes on The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007) by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Quotes and Notes “There is a strong moral case for Israel’s existence and there are good reasons for the United States to be committed to…