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Friday, June 4, 2010

"Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing": Book Review

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Ian Frazier may be a better writer than editor. His "Lamentations from the Father" channels Yahweh circa Leviticus into an exasper...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

J.C. Hallman's "The Hospital for Bad Poets": Book Review

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Taking its title from Nietzsche, this ambitious collection comes half from the exurbs, half from the innards. Hallman's debut fiction em...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Seamus Heaney translates Robert Henryson's medieval Scots verse

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A middle-aged man contemplates the aftermath of Chaucer's tragic Cresseid. Abandoned by Troilus after she dallied with Diomede, did she...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

William Powers' "Hamlet's Blackberry": Book Review

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How can we balance staying "in touch" without being overwhelmed by never being out of touch? Moving between the "alpha" ...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Cyber-friends, Online Fences, Factory Schools

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I hate talking on a phone. I'm getting tendonitis from using this keyboard. My work requires I log on 24/7 to teach my "blended lea...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Alan Guthrie's "Slammer": Book Review

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Down the rabbit hole, prison style. Scottish guard, seven weeks on the job, finds himself trapped by a nightmarish chain of compromises. I c...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Stephen Mansfield's "The Search for God & Guinness": Book Review

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How does beer express theology? How can brewers enhance goodness? What's moral about a corporation? An historian specializing in inspira...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

An aistear sa lá

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Bhuel, thiomaint Leon go dtí an diseart ard an lá eile. Iarr sé féin a cleachtadh ag scrudú. Mar sin, d'imigh muid ar turas ar an bóthar...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Shake Your Earthquake Maker?

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Do you blame disaster on miniskirts? Not as fashion police, but as divine retribution? Arrested development in our moral evolution, this ran...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Dark Lord & Tattooed Goddess, ca. 5000 BCE

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These figures startled me. I mistook them for modern art. They reminded me of strikingly cubist Cycladic flat idols, white marbled from 550...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

"Beckett, Buddhism & the Void": my article

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"Beckett, Buddhism & the Void" : Horizon Review 4(2010). "Always the big questions," that writer sighed. Posed in ...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

"The Gundestrup Cauldron & 'Celtic Buddhism'": my article

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"The Gundestrup Cauldron & 'Celtic Buddhism'" , has been published in Epona: E-Journal of Ancient & Modern Celtic ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Ag tiomaint leis Leon

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Thiomáinfaidh muid go dtí an diseart an tseachtaine deireadh seo chugainn. Tá dúil againn ag feiceáil blathannaí leanaí go h-úr. B'fhéid...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Emma Larkin's "Everything is Broken": Book Review

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Viewers of "Burma VJ," and readers of her "Finding George Orwell in Burma," (see my review) will learn about what'...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day": Book Review

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It's set a hundred years ago but not much has changed. "This big parade of modern inventions, all spirited march tunes, public goin...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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