America’s Oldest Home Video? You Decide…Okay…I don’t have any way of proving this. But…there can’t have been many people with their own video decks at home in the 1970s. This was before VHS was taking off, and when the only affordable cameras were the kind you’d see in banks for closed-circuit television. That’s what I… Continue reading

Since Podiobooks has expanded, and more and more sites dedicated to podcasting fiction have come on line, I’ve noticed the number of subscriptions to my novel have increased. Keep reading listening out there!

Rather than post each chapter audio file to Doctor Janeway individually, which doesn’t make sense given that they are now all available on the book site’s front page, I’m linking to the entire thing here. (scroll down to the bottom of the page) Siris has already started listening, for one.

Joseph Bottum on the death of Richard Rorty: The iconic status he achieved is difficult now to understand. The frisson of postmodernism in its early days had something to do with, as did Rorty’s claim to be the last true heir of the American pragmatist tradition, the mantle falling to him from the shoulders of… Continue reading

I’m currently reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (based on his Gifford Lectures)–which is a rather dry title for a book that looks at the fascinating history behind philosophy since Aquinas in the Middle Ages. It’s become sort of a cliche, I know, about philosophy these days that, in stark contrast to… Continue reading