PZ’s Heart
Okay, he may be a common crackerophile, but I’m happy to see PZ’s operation went well, and he’ll still be blogging. [I tried not to pray for him, but couldn’t help it. Don’t tell anyone.]
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
PW Takes Note
Publisher’s Weekly will start a new listing of self-published books, and will pick the most interesting among submissions from authors to be reviewed. Of course, authors will have to pay for it.
Is There a Darwin Litmus Test?
My first piece for The Guardian is up here.
“No True Scotsman” Gambit
And Mark Chu-Carroll has had enough if it: If you talk to a christian about, say, the holocaust, they’ll say that the Nazi’s weren’t really christian. The crusaders who raped and pillaged their way across Europe? Not really christian. The inquisitioners, who tortured and killed all of those innocent people in the name of christianity?… Continue reading “No True Scotsman” Gambit
Frank Kermode RIP
Anything he wrote was well worth reading, more than once. Prominent in literary criticism since the 1950s, Kermode held “virtually every endowed chair worth having in the British Isles”, according to his former colleague John Sutherland, from King Edward VII professor of English literature at Cambridge to Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at… Continue reading Frank Kermode RIP