9 This just in: I’ll be doing a fiction reading, with fiction writer and SF academic John Langan, at the Melville Gallery of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport on Tuesday, January 2, as part of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.
The doors open at 6:30 p.m., and complete details can be found on the NYRSF page. The series is curated by Jim Freund, host of Hour of the Wolf, broadcast on WBAI radio.
“It Meurent, Manet’s favorite model and a leading professional cancan dancer, arrived in New York from Paris in September 1868 as part of a troupe of forty-eight artistes to perform in Offenbach’s operettas. She and her young child traveled steerage…”
A whole political-media machinery now exists for the sole purpose of mocking education rooted in an appreciation for diverse humanity, but in the false guise of allegedly brave and serious “heterodox” thought.
The way reading is taught now is an *excellent* way to prepare kids for a sterile, joyless work life devoid of imagination and curiosity.
@SusanDarraj
Quite pleased to see that Christianity Today @CTmagazine has listed my memoir The Accidental Buddhist as one of the Top 5 Books on Buddhism. @AlgonquinBooks @penguinrandom
“As a man gets older, he tends to confuse what he has learned with what he has experienced.” – Harry Golden (1902–81, American journalist)
