Recommended Reading: Selfhood and Authenticity

“Authenticity is a practice and habit of openness. It is the attempt to help free up others for their projects of care. It is an attempt to release beauty incorruptible.” – Corey Anton

Quote: Sherlock Holmes

From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet”: “You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the [...]

Communication!: A Radical Philosophy for Life’s #1 Problem

I have studied (and worked hard at understanding) the works of Lee Thayer since 2000 and am eagerly awaiting his newest book on Communication, Communication! A Radical Philosophy for Life’s #1 Problem to be released sometime this month (February) by Windsor Media Enterprises. According to the WME website: “Communication! begins with a half-dozen “Forewarnings,” such [...]

William T. Vollmann: 8 Audio Links (Interviews/Conversations)

A working list of William T. Vollmann audio pieces drawn from various websites. I have not listened to all of these interviews/conversations in their entirety yet, so cannot vouch for which one is “better” than the other. With that said, as always, if you know of any Vollmann audio links that I have missed, please [...]

The Unholy Dimensions of Jeffrey Thomas

An article/interview I did for MishMash Magazine on horror writer Jeffrey Thomas is up. Check it out! The Unholy Dimensions of Jeffrey Thomas Also, for an excerpt from his novel “Deadstock” and 10 links pertaining to his work, please see: Deadstock: Excerpt Enjoy.

Jeffrey Thomas: Deadstock (Excerpt)

In the midst of a typhoon, I have been working on an article for Mish Mash Magazine about the prolific author, Jeffrey Thomas. The piece for Mish Mash features a three-question interview with Jeffrey Thomas and thoughts on his work and its effect on me, the reader – a kind of phenomenological indulgence piece. In [...]

Encroach (1-3)

1. Stagger, sway only into the last haul. Jagged feet of my own that realize such a haunting dread of displacement. The self subsumed by currents, by the Bleak. A path through the dense green thickness and now an opening with branches like tendrils tendons tickling scraping the face gently. This, the first limping leg [...]