Category: literature
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Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics — Heliosphere
We gathered at Heliosphere this year for several panels and one included a talk on Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics. The talk featured Chris Kreuter, Renee Ritchie, and Elektra Hammond — so of course, I was out of my league trying to keep my head above water. We talked through all manner ethical…
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Story Inspiration from Breaking Science
The wonderful folks who run Heliosphere invited me to moderate and participate in several panels for their conference. One of the panels was Story Inspiration from Breaking Science. The panel included Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Dr. James Prego, and Sarena Strauss. We started out hypothesizing from various abstracts we’d come across. We — mostly me — got a bit…
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Book Review Site : FREE list of emails — who will review your book?
Sometimes we have really dense posts here and sometimes we give you book review site after book review site. It’s a list today, in a document, complete with contact information of every book review site I know about. Or at least the non-Goodreads, non-Bookriot, non-NYT Book Review sites. All the bloggers who will consider you?…
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LJ Cohen — Derelict
As I said in FC Shultz’s Rose Weapon review, 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, even if inadvertently. I tend to keep them, but I often take years. That includes a promise I made to LJ…
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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RL Stevenson “Kidnapped”
From May to July in 1886, RL Stevenson published a boys’s novel Kidnapped in the magazine Young Folks. Everyone from Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel cited it as an influence. It’s a delightful little novel by RL Stevenson. I only know him through Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (A novel I need to review,…
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Protected: Pride and Prejudice book VS Pride and Prejudice life
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Pinocchio Stop Motion — True Myth of the Cruciform Lie
When we went to MoMA to see Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio stop motion exhibit, I took some pictures I will prize for… maybe the rest of my life? I didn’t expect that, to be sure. The Pinocchio stop motion exhibit featured all manner of behind-the-scenes ephemera that I might not have encountered otherwise. For a…
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Hindu Monotheism : The Upanishads and Vedanta
Questions about Hindu Monotheism — often phrased rather bluntly such as “Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic?” — have cropped up of late. The answer, in a general sense, is either “it depends” or “whose monotheism?” or “which Hinduism?” Folks, at least according to the search trends, seem deeply concerned — even disturbed — that any form of Hinduism…
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First Winner of Nebula Award
Who was the first winner of Nebula award? The first winner of Nebula award for best novel was Frank Herbert’s Dune, but other awards were offered that year. The ceremony started in 1965 and was presented simultaneously in the east at Overseas Press Club in New York, New York on March 11, 1966 and in…
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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…