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THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB, SEASON 2 (PBS)

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The first episode of Season 2 of The Marlow Murder Club begins with Sir Peter Bailey found dead the day before his wedding. Bailey’s much younger nurse turned fiancée, his wayward combative son, his bitter daughter, and his ex-wife on the brink of losing her title are key suspects. A recently updated will (that goes missing) gives everyone a motive for murder.

 Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey, Home Fires) as Judith Potts joined by Jo Martin (Doctor Who, Back to Life) as Suzie Harris and Cara Horgan (The Sandman, Traitors) as Becks Starling are the Marlow Murder Club, a trio of true crime enthusiasts who investigate the rash of murders in their community.

The first season of The Marlow Murder Club had four episodes. This second season features six episodes. Diane and I enjoyed the first episode of this new season and will continue watching. GRADE: Incomplete, but trending towards a B+

FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #871: THE OUTSPOKEN AND THE INCENDIARY: INTERVIEWS WITH RADICAL SPECULATIVE FICTION WRITERS Edited by Terry Bisson

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Last week I posted about classic SF writers in SPACE SHIPS! RAY GUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODS!: INTERVIEWS WITH SCIENCE FICTION LEGENDS Edited by Richard Wolinsky (you can read my review here). This week, I’m posting about a more current group of Science Fiction writers like John Crowley, Samuel R. Delany, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Nano Hopkinson, James Patrick Kelly (no relation), John Kissel, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Norman Spinrad, and John Shirley.

The interviews with all these writers spark plenty of controversy and conversation. I was most interested in the revealing aspects of how many of these writers got started in their profession and what “propelled them on their artistic journeys.”

The Outspoken and the Incendiary also is a tribute to Terry Bisson, who died on January 10, 2024 (age 81 years) in  Berkeley, CA. Bisson’s years of interviews produced a living chronicle of where SF was headed. If you’re a Science Fiction fan, you’ll find The Outspoken and the Incendiary both enlightening and entertaining. I learned a lot from this book! GRADE: A

Table of Contents

Foreword: Nisi Shawl — xi
Introduction: Jonathan Lethem — 1
Eleanor Arnason “At the Edge of the Future” — 3
Terry Bisson (interviewed by T. B. Calhoun) “Fried Green Tomatoes” — 23
Michael Blumlein “A Babe in the Woods” — 35
John Crowley “I Did Crash a Few Parties” — 45
Samuel R. Delany “Discourse in an Older Sense” — 57
Cory Doctorow “Look For the Lake” — 67
Meg Elison “Sprawling into the Unknown” –77
Karen Joy Fowler “More Exuberant Than is Strictly Tasteful” — 85
Eileen Gunn “I Did, and I Didn’t, and I Won’t” — 95
Elizabeth Hand “Flying Squirrels in the Rafters” — 103
Cara Hoffman “My Favorite Amphibian” — 117
Nalo Hopkinson “Correcting the Balance” — 127
James Patrick Kelly “Encounter with a Gadget Guy” — 149
John Kessel “I Planned to Be an Astronomer” — 161
Paul Krassner “Reflections of A Realist” — 171
Joe R. Lansdale “That’s How You Clean a Squirrel” — 183

Ursula K. Le Guin “A Lovely Art” — 193

Jonathan Lethem “Rooms Full of Old Books Are Immortal Enough for Me” — 201

Ken Macleod “Working the Wet End” — 211
Nick Mamatas “Put Your Twist in the Middle” — 221
Michael Moorcock “Get the Music Right” — 229
Paul Park “Punctuality, Basic Hygiene, Gun Safety” — 251
Gary Phillips “But I’m Gonna Put A Cat On You” — 259
Marge Piercy “Living Off the Grid” — 271
Rachel Pollack “Radical, Sacred, Hopefully Magical” — 281

Kim Stanley Robinson “A Real Joy to Be Had” — 289

Rudy Rucker “Load On the Miracles and Keep a Straight Face” — 311

Carter Scholz “Gear. Food. Rocks.” — 327
Nisi Shawl “The Fly in the Sugar Bowl” — 335
John Shirley “Pro Is for Professional” — 345
Vandana Singh “A Source of Immense Richness” — 359
Norman Spinrad “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” — 367
Afterword: Nalo Hopkinson — 375
Elegy: Rudy Rucker — 379

Elegy: Peter Coyote — 383

About the Authors — 387

BORN TO RUN By Bruce Springsteen (50th Anniversary) and TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND: THE MAKING OF BORN TO RUN By Peter Ames Carlin

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TRACK LIST:

No.TitleLength
1.“Thunder Road“4:49
2.“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out“3:11
3.“Night“3:00
4.“Backstreets“6:30
No.TitleLength
1.“Born to Run“4:30
2.“She’s the One“4:30
3.“Meeting Across the River“3:18
4.“Jungleland“9:34
Total length:39:23

Fifty years ago this week I bought a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run album. The album had been released on August 25, 1975 and was an immediate hit. “Born to Run,” the single, garnered heavy radio play. But what I did not know before reading Peter Ames Carlin’s new book, Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run, was that Columbia Records was about to drop Bruce Springsteen because his first two albums–Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, while critical successes, disappointed the executives at Columbia with their meager sales.

Springsteen’s career was at risk while he was working on Born to Run–he knew the stakes. It’s clear from Calin’s book, that Springsteen decided to take some risks with Born to Run. He brought in new band members like drummer Max Weinberg. Springsteen also brought in rock columnist Jon Landau to co-produce Born to Run. The risks brought Springsteen and the E Street Band the fame they craved.

Peter Ames Carlin presents the recording process of Born to Run and the twists and turns in Springsteen’s tweaking of the lyrics and the arrangements. Strings were added–then subtracted. Backup singers came and went. The low tech recording equipment of 1975 also caused problems. But the story of how all these problems were overcome to produce a classic album is compelling.

Are you a fan of Born to Run? GRADE: A (for the album and the book)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. Prologue — 1
  2. Chapter 1: Watch the World Explode — 3
  3. Chapter 2: Nashville — 10
  4. Chapter 3: Lost in the Flood — 23
  5. Chapter 4: I Know Where You Live — 33
  6. Chapter 5: Carnival Weekend — 43
  7. Chapter 6: Rock ’n’ Roll Future — 52
  8. Chapter 7: Growing Young with Rock and Roll — 59
  9. Chapter 8: Walk with Me Out on the Wire — 67
  10. Chapter 9: Welcome to E Street — 75
  11. Chapter 10: The Poets Around Here Don’t Write Nothing at All — 87
  12. Chapter 11: Wings for Wheels — 95
  13. Chapter 12: The E Street Dance — 102
  14. Chapter 13: Magic in the Night — 110
  15. Chapter 14: Like a Vision — 116
  16. Chapter 15: All the Wonder It Brings — 123
  17. Chapter 16: Scooter and the Big Man — 129
  18. Chapter 17: It’s Elephants, Baby! — 138
  19. Chapter 18: And Then You Were the Psychopath — 147
  20. Chapter 19: The Heist — 154
  21. Chapter 20: Tonight in Jungleland — 165
  22. Chapter 21: Kutztown — 176
  23. Chapter 22: The Bottom Line — 187
  24. Chapter 23: Flying by the Seat of My Pants — 199
  25. Chapter 24: Backlash — 209
  26. Chapter 25: The Other Thunder Road — 218
  27. Epilogue — 229
  28. Acknowledgments — 235
  29. Bibliography — 249

WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #239: THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION Edited by David Stuart Davies

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Just by chance, I stumbled upon David Suart Davies’s monumental The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction (aka, Wordsworth Book of Science Fiction) presents over a 1000 pages of classic 19th and early 20th Century SF. I own a 100 SF anthologies, but The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction contains a massive amount of material unavailable elsewhere.

Cast your eyes down the Table of Contents and prepare to be amazed at the breath of writers represented. Yes, Jules Verne, A. Conan Doyle, and Jack London are here, but Milne, Stockton, Allen show up, too.

After reading The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction, I developed a whole different sense of what was happening in early SF with little known writers like Weinbaum, Mitchell, White, and Griffith making substantial progress in the genre.

If you’re a devotee of early Science Fiction The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction is a must-read. I bought my copy of The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction for less than $10–a bargain for a book of this size and importance! GRADE: A

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PROFESSOR T, SERIES 4 (PBS)

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Professor T. is a British crime drama television series starring Ben Miller as Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius University of Cambridge criminologist with obsessive compulsive disorder.

In the opening episode, “Carpe Diem,” of this new series of Professor T, Tempest is dealing with the shocking death that concluded Series 3. The professor retreats into his lectures at Cambridge and ignores attempts by the police to involve him in more crime solving. But Dr. Helena Goldberg (Juliet Stevenson), Jasper’s therapist, helps Tempest return to his police work in a baffling case where a young woman is missing on ship. Was she murdered? Did she accidentally fall overboard? Or did she commit suicide? Only Tempest sees the true situation. GRADE: Incomplete, but treading towards a B

FILTHY RICH POLITICIANS: THE SWAMP CREATURES, LATTE LIBERALS, AND RULING CLASS ELITES CASHING IN ON AMERICA By Matt K. Lewis

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Veteran political correspondant, Matt K. Lewis, has studied politicians and their use of political power to enrich themselves for decades. A recent article in The Atlantic estimated that President Trump has made over $3 billion while in office–mostly from his goofy, but lucrative, crypto business.

Filthy Rich Politicians shows how the political money games work, for both the Republicans and the Democrats. “Rich people get elected, and people, when elected, tend to get richer,” Lewis says. “Over time, it has gotten worse.”

Part of the problem is that the “guard-rails” of wealth acquisition in political office had been dismantled. Trump rid himself (and his political allies) of oversight by Inspector Generals…by firing them all.

And, it’s no surprise that Trump surrounded himself with billionaires by including them in his Cabinet. They have the opportunity to enrich themselves, too.

If you have an interest in political corruption–and what to do to fix it–Matt K. Lewis’ Filthy Rich Politicians provides a workable plan.

Do you have a “favorite” corrupt politician? GRADE: A

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword by Batya Unger-Sargon — ix

Introduction — 1

The ruling class — 11

A rich history: Pre$idents from Washington to Biden — 18

Why the rich get elected — 29

Why the elected get rich — 45

All in the family: How politicians spread the wealth — 70

The lifestyle: Living large — 91

Latte liberals: Rich and privileged with influence — 102

Ivy League populists: Rich and privileged networks — 125

You can take it with you: The revolving door — 142

Don’t eat the rich — 160

Appendix: The Richest Twenty-Five Members of Congress — 181

The Ten Richest US Presidents — 181

Acknowledgements — 193

Notes — 197

Index — 235

About the Author — 243

CONAN: SONGS OF THE SLAIN By Tim Lebbon

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I’ve read a couple dozen Conan the Barbarian pastiches over the years. Last year, I enjoyed James Lovegrove’s Conan – Cult of the Obsidian Moon (you can read my review here). Titan Books has published a new pastiche by Tim Lebbon, Conan: Songs of the Slain. I really liked the illustrations by Juan Alberto Hernandez.

Tim Lebbon obviously loves Conan and by the many references to past Conan stories, he’s a serious fan as well as a talented writer. Conan: Songs of the Slain begins with the capture of Conan friend Baht Tann’s wife and two sons by the powerful warrior, Grake. Grace plans to kill Conan and ascend to greatness as a result.

But Conan faces more danger as two more enemies plan his demise. Krow Danaz, a wizard, who wants to avenge the death of his mentor, Tsotha-lanti, a sorcerer slain by Conan, links up with Grake and Mylera, a witch, whose father died saving Conan in one of the barbarian King’s wars. Mylera blames Conan for her father’s death and goes to Dark Magic for the means to kill Conan.

Sometimes less is more. Any one of these adversaries would have been challenging to the aging Conan of Conan: Songs of the Slain. Two would have the odds in their favor to kill the King. But three powerful enemies seems like overkill to me.

Much of Conan: Songs of the Slain features Conan in the wilds again, searching for the missing wife and sons of Baht Tann. Meanwhile, Conan’s enemies are preparing for a climatic showdown to bring Conan to his knees, and kill him. In the lead-up to the big battle, Conan takes a lot of punishment. No normal human could have survived the injuries Tim Lebbon inflicts on Conan.

If you’re a fan of Conan, you’ll enjoy Conan: Songs of the Slain. But, set the bar low. GRADE: C+

READING AMERICA By Denis Donoghue

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Knopf published Reading America, Volume 2 of the Selected Essays of Denis Donoghue, in 1987. One wonders what the audience for a book like this would be today.

Introduction — ix

ESSAYS

America in Theory — 3

Emerson at First — 20

Thoreau — 40

Whitman — 68

Emily Dickinson — 97

Henry Adam’ss Novels — 111

Henry James and The Sense of the Past — 127

On “Gerontion” — 144

Stevens’s Gibberish — 158

Trilling, Mind, and Society — 175

BREVITIES

Conrad Aiken — 199

Marrianne Moore — 206

Wallace Stevens — 218

Ransom — 225

Allen Tate — 230

H. D. — 237

Hart Crane

I. — 242

II. — 250

Auden

I. — 254

II. 258

Kenneth Burke — 265

John Berryman — 276

Robert Lowell

I. — 282

II. — 287

Sylvia Plath — 296

John Ashbery

I. — 302

II. — 312

OLD TRUTHS AND NEW CLICHES: ESSAYS BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Edited by David Stromberg

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Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades.

Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work—including the literary arts, Yiddish and Jewish life, and mysticism and philosophy—the book illuminates in new ways the rich intellectual, aesthetic, religious, and biographical background of Singer’s singular achievement as the first Yiddish-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Like a modern Montaigne, Singer studied human nature and created a body of work that contributed to a deeper understanding of the human spirit. Much of his philosophical thought was funneled into his stories. Yet these essays, which Singer himself translated into English or oversaw the translation of, present his ideas in a new way, as universal reflections on the role of the artist in modern society. Do you read Isaac Bashevis Singer? GRADE: A

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREFACE (pp. ix-x) David Stromberg

Writers Don’t Write for the Drawer: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAYS OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGERWriters Don’t Write for the Drawer: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAYS OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (pp. 1-16) Isaac Bashevis Singer has long been acknowledged as a master storyteller. But his critical writings have been largely passed over. One underlying reason is the sheer volume of Singer’s output. Starting in 1939, when he became a regular contributor to the Yiddish daily Forverts, he produced an incredible amount of text. He published his work under at least three pseudonyms, any number of which might appear in a single issue—sometimes on a single page—in a variety of genres: stories, novels, memoirs, essays, literary sketches, satires, dialogues, travel pieces, reviews, and even a popular media digest.

THE LITERARY ARTS

The Satan of Our TimeThe Satan of Our Time (pp. 19-19) A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity, almost a ghost. Perhaps this is why I am so interested in ghost stories and in the supernatural. I am inclined in all my writings to search for what is hidden from the eye. Somewhere I believe every human being to be possessed, and to me real writers are those who have the ability of exorcism.My first book, Satan in Goray, was published in Warsaw, Poland, in 1935, the year I came to the U.S.A., and since then I have struggled with devils and imps in all my works.

  • Journalism and Literature (pp. 20-24) know of writers who consider it a tragedy to earn a living from journalism. They claim that it wastes their free time and that journalism is generally harmful to literary creativity. They argue that a journalist becomes accustomed to writing in a hurry and not weighing and measuring every word, and that the means and methods of journalism are altogether contrary to creativity. The experiences of this writer suggest a different approach to the question.It has been my experience that I wrote my best works in the midst of journalistic hullabaloo, often right in the editorial offices…
  • Why Literary Censorship Is Harmful (pp. 25-31) Urbane people who have a preference for what they call “pure” literature and theater have in recent years been shocked by obscene language printed in books and newspapers, and vulgar speech heard in the theater. Those with daughters have especially strong feelings. They somehow cannot imagine them reading and hearing this sort of trash. This obviously concerns what is happening in English, French, German, and other such literatures. Some feel it’s foolish to remove virtually all censorship from literature and theater, while keeping a rather strict censorship on movies, radio, and television.
  • Who Needs Literature? (pp. 32-42) There are times when I wonder what purpose fiction serves today. Why fabricate plots when life unfolds an inexhaustible wealth of events, stranger than anything literature might offer? Fantasy will never be able to match all the surprising twists that make up facts. No writer’s pen has been able to produce a work so true and free of imperfections as a case history, or the proceedings of a courtroom. Just as there is no perfect crime, so there is no perfect novel. Even Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary reveal flaws and inconsistencies that are part of all fiction.
  • Old Truths and New Clichés (pp. 43-52) Is it possible for art not to look to nature and to learn from it? Before we can answer this question, we must clarify the question itself.In a broad sense, nobody—and especially no artist—can run away from nature. Writers who think up impossible and false situations, painters who paint abstract pictures, sculptors who create figures that have no resemblance to existing objects, composers who compose symphonies that have no rhythm orharmony—they all are united with nature. People, with their fantasies, caprices, and idiosyncrasies, are all a part of nature.
    • Storytelling and Literature (pp. 53-63) I am going to speak about the importance of storytelling and literature. Actually, to say that storytelling is important to literature is like saying that food is necessary for human beings. Of course, everybody knows it. Take away the story and there is no literature. I am sorry that a number of writers have forgotten this simple fact. Sometimes people forget axioms, things that are so clear to all of us, and fall into a kind of amnesia. It is possible that maybe one day people may even forget that food is necessary for life!
    • Literature for Children and Adults (pp. 64-74) One of the biggest biological enigmas is the great gift—or the great burden—of emotions that Nature has bestowed upon people. No matter how impoverished we might be in all other areas, we are millionaires in emotions. People need not study emotions the way they study languages or sciences. What’s more, all the intelligence we have accumulated over the centuries goes to serve these emotions, and sometimes to regulate them somewhat, so that in the mad impetus of our emotions, we don’t inundate ourselves. In this area, the beggar is as rich as the king.
  • YIDDISH AND JEWISH LIFE
    • The Kabbalah and Modern Times (pp. 77-89) What can a modern person learn from the Kabbalah? My definition of such a person is someone who does not believe in any authority, who does not rely on old texts, and who is looking for the truth in a scientific manner. When such people come to the higher questions, they are skeptical. I could therefore call my lecture, “What can skeptics learn from the Kabbalah?” Has it any value for them today? Or is it only a part of the history of human faith and superstition?I consider myself a skeptic as far as dogma and revelation are concerned,..
    • The Ten Commandments and Modern Critics (pp. 90-98) What would happen if Moses were alive today and issued the Ten Commandments not on Mount Sinai with thunder and lightning, but in the form of a booklet or a brochure? How would he be received by the critics? The following are a few of the possibilities.Mr. Moses’s booklet, actually a proclamation (or leaflet), is difficult to categorize. It isn’t fiction in the usual sense of the word, nor is it a work of science. Perhaps it could best be labeled a religious tract—still, there is little of religion in it.
    • The Spirit of Judaism (pp. 99-107) Before me lie dozens of photographs of religious Jews in the Williamsburg section of New York.1 I see fur-edged rabbinical hats, long gaberdines, big beards, sidelocks, women in wigs and in bonnets that were already obsolete even in my youth in Warsaw. I know that thousands of Jews and non-Jews who see these people want to know: What does this signify? Are they all rabbis? Does it say anywhere in the Torah or Talmud that Jews must dress this way? Do they belong to some special Jewish sect? Neither the Reform, the Conservative, nor even those Jews who attend Modern Orthodox…
    • Yiddish, the Language of Exile (pp. 108-118) It is an accepted tenet of both our religious and secular literature that the exile was a calamity for the Jewish people. “And because of our sins we have been exiled from our land.”¹ Three times a day Jews pray that their eyes may see God’s return to Zion. Some of the extreme Zionists have expressed the opinion that the almost two-thousand-year period of the Diaspora was nothing more than an error and a void in our history. Others have even tried to belittle what Jews have created in exile: the Talmud, the Midrash, the Commentaries, the Zohar.
    • Yiddish Theater Lives, Despite the Past (pp. 119-128) I was already a young writer and an ardent reader of world literature when I began to attend plays in Yiddish. Some of them were written by Polish-or Russian-Jewish playwrights, and many of them were imported from the golden land of America. I could see even then that we had not produced in Yiddish a Shakespeare, a Moliere, or a Strindberg. These plays were folkish, utterly naive and sometimes even ridiculous, but I enjoyed them and often laughed, not as much at the banal subject matter, but at the clumsiness of the writers, directors, and even the actors.
    • Yiddish and Jewishness (pp. 129-144) Like grammar, nature has no exceptions. If something in nature appears to us as an exception, it means that the general law is yet unknown.The Jewish people appears to be an exception among peoples. As Balaam said about the Israelites, “The people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.” In all the long history of our people, we have had our own country for only a relatively short time. We used to and continue to live in many different lands, just as we have spoken and still speak innumerable languages.
  • PERSONAL WRITINGS AND PHILOSOPHY
    • A Trip to the Circus (pp. 147-153) Looking back on my life, I can remember always being exceedingly curious about the unusual, the mysterious, the miraculous. My father constantly spoke about saints and wonder rabbis and the miracles they worked through the power of the Kabbalah and holy names. God himself was a super miracle worker. He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. The men and women who served him, from the time of Moses to the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, were all people of magic. According to legend, those who opposed God could work magic too—Satan, Asmodeus, Lilith,…
    • Why I Write As I Do: The Philosophy and Definition of a Jewish Writer (pp. 154-167) I know in advance that anything I have to write is either known to you already or available on the shelves of your library.¹ For that reason I have decided to forget modesty and write about myself. On that subject, at any rate, I am somewhat of an authority. I hope that you will find my case history of some value.I have in my lifetime lived through a number of epochs in Jewish history. I was brought up in a home where the old Jewish faith burned brightly. Ours was a house of Torah and holy books.
    • A Personal Concept of Religion (pp. 168-175) People often ask me: Are you religious? And it isn’t easy for me to answer because the basic element of religion is divine revelation, whether God reveals himself in a burning bush or through the intervention of an angel. But can there also be a religion that does not rely upon revelation?The fact is that a number of philosophers preached this very kind of religion, but the God of philosophers never couldacquire prophets, temples, or priests. To the best of my knowledge, there is no temple where people pray to Spinoza’s Substance, 1 or Hegel’s Zeitgeist.
    • A Story about a Collection of Stories(pp. 176-178) Since I am supposed to be a “born storyteller,” as one of my lenient critics called me, the introduction to this collection will contain two little stories. One facetious and one true. The first one is that when I was born my mother asked the midwife, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the midwife answered, “A writer.” I have told this anecdote to so many people so many times that I am beginning to believe that it is true. This “event” took place, as you may know, in 1903. The other one happened about twenty-five years later.
    • The Making of a First Book (pp. 179-193) From the day people could think, they dreamed of powers that would adjust the natural order of things to their desires and caprices. Among humanity’s greatest victories was the discovery of fire. What a miracle it was that rubbing two sticks together could light up the night, roast and cook meat, bring warmth into the cave, and frighten vicious beasts! Some imagined that human willpower in itself would work even greater miracles. Long before people discovered fire, they knew that an act of love was creative and that hatred was destructiveThe Jews who brought to the world the belief…
    • To the True Protester (pp. 194-194)
  • Singer the Editor: AN AFTERWORD ON THE EDITORIAL PROCESS (pp. 195-206) Isaac Bashevis Singer’s essays show that his artistry was grounded in a clearly articulated theoretical framework. Yet this articulation itself elides an aspect of Singer’s literary practice: his meticulous work as translator and editor. Apart from organizing and introducing Singer’s essays, collecting his work has also involved an intimate and thorough investigation of his complex creative process, which generally began in Yiddish, written by hand into small notebooks or on loose-leaf paper. These handwritten manuscripts were often sent directly to the Forverts for typesetting and printing without any intermediary stage.
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. 207-210)
  • NOTES (pp. 211-222)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. 223-226)
  • INDEX (pp. 227-238)

INVASION, SEASON 3

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I’ve had mixed feelings about Invasion. Season One showed up in October of 2021 and I found it a slog to get through all 10 episodes. Not enough aliens, too much people freaking out over the Invasion.

Invasion, Season Two showed up in 2023 and the complaints about the first Season were “Tweaked” (I wouldn’t say “fixed) and in general these 10 episodes had more action and suspense.

Season 3 showed up yesterday and based on the first episode, this season is shifting the action in Invasion from defense to offense. The humans are taking on the alien hive mind and changing the momentum of the conflict.

If you’re a fan of alien invasion–especially one ICE can’t handle–you might want to give this 10 episode season a look. GRADE: Incomplete, but trending towards a B+