Category: C.S. Lewis
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Was Joseph Campbell atheist?
Folks have been stumbling onto the site of late asking, “Was Joseph Campbell atheist?” No, Joseph Campbell was not an atheist. He believed in God first as a Catholic growing up, then in something like Brahman — or Sat — later in life, culminating in the “great spirit” of many native tribes. This is the sort of…
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FC Shultz : The Rose Weapon
I’m often the sort of person who feels incessantly indebted to folks partly from my deep well of gratitude and partly from promises I’ve made. I tend to keep them, but I often take years. That includes a promise I made to FC Shultz to read his debut The Rose Weapon, his first, when it…
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Little Women themes
After a long time leaving the promise unfulfilled to my bride, I finally read and will reflect on Little Women themes and symbols. I’m wasted as a scholar. But I try my best to be a careful reader. What are the main Little Women themes? It seems to me the Little Women themes that came…
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Great Neck Library Indie Author Roundtable
Along with with crime/literary novelist Tejas Desai, Children’s Book Author Ama Yawson, crime author Alex Avitabile, and poet Scottt Raven — I met with the local audience at Great Neck Library for an indie author roundtable. As panels go, it was rather fun and we had a very interactive crowd. Moreover, this was very same library…
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Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
Please welcome longtime Writer Unboxed community member Lancelot Schaubert back as our guest today! Lance is the author of the novel Bell Hammers. “… Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
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Jefferson Market Library
Snagged this photo of Jefferson market library during a stormy Sunday in August. Soon after this photograph, we got rained on.
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A Defense of Baby Worship
The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children [and tempt them towards baby worship] are, first, that children are very serious, and, secondly, that they are in consequence very happy. They are jolly with the completeness which is possible only in the absence of humour. The most unfathomable schools and sages have…
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The Zero with 1000 Faces: A Photography Series in Celebration of Joseph Campbell
The Zero with 1000 faces happened ten years ago in 2012 (sort of a subversion of the monomyth). I actually took all of these pictures down soon after, but then it got to be rather nostalgic for me and… I realized it really was for fun and really should be treated as such. And, in…
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Experimental Fiction Experiment
Dave King takes carpeted stairs into the basement of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts thinking of experimental fiction. A remnant of variegated clay chips hint that Donald Maass, John Vorhaus, Jo Eberhardt, Sean Walsh, and Mike Swift had been playing poker. An oversized Jack of clubs (big enough to be a placemat) and a…
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Where do your ideas come from?
When someone asks me “where do your ideas come from?” I often experience this high-functioning autistic shut down I experience with many questions. I am rather obsessed with speaking to the question someone’s asking. Dinosaur that I am becoming, my mind works almost in complete opposition to the way that most moderns think. “Where do…
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Disrespect Hard Copies of My Books, Please
Recently someone I care for witnessed their young child snatch this copy of Little Women I had on hand — they took it away from this child, reasoning that this child might disrespect hard copies of my books. My response, immediately, was, “It’s really okay.” This person said, “He’ll tear it.” I said, “That’s okay…
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Braver Than You Think
When I sat down to write this reflection on the book Braver Than You Think by Maggie Downs, it seemed to me a really weird thing to do. I almost never review books on the site anymore and I’m not really reviewing one now. I almost never — in a decade of doing this stuff — do…