Sitemap - 2023 - Timeless - With Felix Purat

Late For Advent

Barev Tzes, Dear Life

Global Pheromoning

Nine Favorite Reads of 2023 (Plus One For Good Measure)

Snowstorms

Meditative Qualities In Literature

Vasily Grossman’s “Sistine Madonna” (VII of VII)

After The Gulag: Literature of The Last Man

Four Sides of Life & Fate

What Vasily Grossman Concluded

Grossman and the Holocaust

Vasily Grossman (II of VII)

Vasily Grossman (I of VII)

The Sacred Idiom Shorn

My Interview with Felix Purat

My Stigmata Don't Twinkle In Raivola's Garden

Robert Kennedy & Nostalgia, As Explained By Literature

Robert Kennedy & Nostalgia, As Explained By Literature

A Perverse Masterpiece

Squirrel Small, Tail Huge!

100 Subscribers, Słowacki in English and the Liquidation of All Middle Ground

Escape From Starshire, Pt. 3

Chocolate Devils

Powermongers Lust After My Booty

Resuscitating Regional Literature

Warm Limoncello

Mercurial, Procurial...

Godfather of Petulance

Broken Pump

Escape From Starshire, Pt. 2

Can Christians Be Peaceful In A Violent World? A Review of Jalaleddin, by Raffi

Pan Vlastimil Infiltrates The Kitchens (The Bo Lan Mysteries #5)

St. Wenceslas As Rex Justus

Milan Kundera and Jacques The Fatalist: An Essay

The Cleanser

Morning In Holešovice

A Cultural Revolution Begins In Canada

Look At The Lights, My Love, by Annie Ernaux

Inercia’s Revenge

Tumble Away!

My Favorite Polish Classic

A Tale of Hell On Earth

Leucothea in Le Havre [Alternate Version]

Escape From Starshire, Pt. 1

The "Violence" of the Arts: Kundera's Life Is Elsewhere

The Cosmic Gnarl

Defining The Avant-Garde: Ionesco's Artistry

September Plans

Bo Lan, Alone In A Čínský Krumlov Cafe (The Bo Lan Mysteries #4)

The Belly Ache Poem

Why All Writers Should Listen To The Mountain Goats

Paraded, Cascaded...

[Repost] The Light of '68: Kundera's The Joke, The Archetypal Red-Pilling Novel

A Humbug's Poem

A Quick Rumination on Two Nonconformists

A Writer's Turf and Cultural Clash in Literature

Malá Kateřina and The Game of Marriage (The Bo Lan Mysteries #3)

Minimal Wave Poem

Agent Juche Passes The Test (The Bo Lan Mysteries #2)

Reek Sunday 2023 Anno Domini

Coins From Carbines

No Country For Old Men & The Utopian/Underbelly Dichotomy

PARDUBICE HLAVNÍ NÁDRAŽÍ

Ten Years Abroad (Escaping The Movie)

Odpočívej v pokoji: A Eulogy

The Writers' Research Shelf, #1: The Stools of The Ashanti

Becoming Baroque (or First Poem By A New Father)

The Orchard Keeper: A Rumination

Boii Celts Rumination

Brief Time Away

The Whore That Is Communism: A Review of Laughable Loves

A Musical Morning

Blood Meridian In Paris

Calm Before an Earthquake - Ebook Published!

The Detritivore (A New Testaccio)

Bloomsday 2023

Slavicness, Sirens and The Literature of Enrichment

Geese Flocks In Streymoy

Co Čech To Ztracený: Or What The Czechs Have To Lose

We Must, We Need To...

Grabiński, Venice, and Individualism In Literature

Do We Have The Right? Annie Ernaux's I Remain In Darkness

Calm Before An Earthquake: A Segment

Dispersing Hipsters

Thoughts On Ernaux's Blank Page Strategy

How Many Books Should A Writer Read?

Black Gryphon Sticker

Before The Coffee Gets Cold: A Feelgood Novel From The Third Great Literary Tradition

Asserting Power Over Memory (Ernaux #3)

The Tired Knight

Can Christians Be Peaceful In A Violent World? A Review of Jalaleddin, by Raffi

In Praise of the Standalone Short Story, or The Short Story Chapbook

Swamp Rat Books Is Born!

Words Are Drugs (Poem #12)

"And Only Her Rivers Shall Run Free..."

Radio Free Albemuth: The Rudiments of American Dictatorship

Stance and Story: Mircea Eliade, Romanian Lit, and Trăirismul

Happy Czech Valentine's Day! (Šťastný svátek zamilovaných!)

Harbingers (Poem #11)

On My Debut Novel And Debut Novels In General

Visual Slavia, Pt. 1: Ukraine and the Tale of Kotihoroshko

Transgenderism: The Promethean Project of Today (Part 2)

In Praise of A Writer's Secrecy (And In Defense of Trade Secrets)

Must Readers Suspend Moral Judgment? Annie Ernaux's "Big Ask" In Simple Passion

A Prague Rumination

Thoughts on Suzi Weiss' Article on Surrogacy

Radio Free Albemuth: Aramchek Is Dead

A Personal Library Rumination

The Two-Pronged Plot: An Igor Štiks Review

White Ducks Celebrate The Wetness (Poem #9)

If Ray Kurzweil Is Right, And Readers Become Immortal...

Transgenderism: The Promethean Project of Today (Part 1)

Struggles With Prolificity

Exteriors, by Annie Ernaux: A Review

When Ukraine's Eggs Hatch... (Poem #8)

The Legacy of The Northern Crusades As It Pertains To The Slavs (A Review)

Why I Still Bring Physical Books On My Travels And Not A Kindle

I Asked AI For An April Fool (Poem #7)

In Praise Of Marriage (Five Works of Literature That Will Challenge Your Anti-Marriage Views)

Four Lessons To Take From The Agatha Christie Desecration (AKA I Stand With The Nubians!)

Why Brave Readers Should Read Lansdale's Steampunk Sequel (Feat. H.G. Wells' Time Traveler)

At The Parking Lot Café

An Afternoon In Ostrava

Six Thoughts on Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac, Sixty-Six Pages In

New Monkey District 21A (The Bo Lan Mysteries #1)

An de bheoaibh no de mhairbh thu?* (Poem #5)

The Dystopian, Anti-Big-Pharma Universe of Tomás Mac Síomóin

What Will Become of All The Readers?

Solis, by A.A. Attanasio: A Review

Arborglyph In A Digital Forest (Poem #4)

The Algorithmic Demon Rises

Zarzara's Voice

The God-Clown Is Near, by Jay Lake

Social Life (Poem #3)

What Do We Want From Nature?

Bucket List Entry No. 47

Nothing To See Here (Poem #2)

The Tossers Pissing On Roald Dahl’s Stories Are A Gaggle of Lowlife Traitors

Lotto of the Pharaoh

Toilet Monsters, Blood As Gold and Doom By Breeding

The Cursed Bunny and Metaphysical Diplomacy (Where Quibblers Dare #1)

Extra-Terrestrial, Extra-Cylindrical (Poem #1)

In Praise of The Czechs, Glorifiers of the Feuilleton (Feuilleton #1)

Coming soon