Merry Youle, author of Thinking Like a Phage, gives us JUST THE FACTS: WHO do you look to for motivation/inspiration? Every writer who has shared their own particular insightful view of the world, and thereby expanded mine. Also essential as you are starting out are encouragement and opportunity, provided in my case by Forest Rohwer and Elio … Continue reading
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Thinking Like a Phage
I’m super excited to announce the arrival of Thinking Like a Phage, a beautiful and insightful book about the most abundant life form on the planet: viruses – specifically bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. Written by Merry Youle, who is not only my personal hero but whose life trajectory shows that you can do really … Continue reading
How to Get Nothing Done Over a Weekend When You Have Deadlines
Pick up Greg van Eekhout’s California Bones Trilogy (that’s actually the title of the first book, but I don’t think the series has a name). I love that these books are so California even in a world where people eat each other for the magic in their bones. I read all three in two days. So yeah, … Continue reading
A Warning – (The Flayed City by Hari Alluri)
Poet, community facilitator, human of goodness, Hari Alluri has a new book of poems out. The Flayed City will open you in ways that matter. Below are two of my many favorites. You need to buy yourself a copy. Continue reading
Currently Reading: dancers after dark (Jordan Matter)
I love the human body. It is the best piece of art ever. Jordan Matter’s “dancers after dark” features people who know how best to make art with their body. The back reads “300 dancers. 400 locations. More than 150 daring photographs. No clothes. No arrests. No regrets.” And as far as I can tell, mostly … Continue reading
What Does It Mean?
Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might nearly be free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word … Continue reading
Reinventing Self
I love academia. So much so that I keep coming back to it in one form or another. As I begin another degree this fall, I wonder what is it that pulls me into the university one course of study after another. In part, it is that I like reinventing myself. And academia offers a … Continue reading
