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Renewed As Always

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Gene Stewart

In the Romantic Era, when artists and writers recoiled from some of the harshness brought by the Age of Reason, a beautiful, terminally-ill young woman, doomed, a tubercular Venus, was considered the most poignant of topics for art. Beauty and … Continue reading →

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Best Southern Gothic Novel In Ages

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Darling by Mercedes M Yardley BlackSpot Books, 2022, POD trade pb 291pp, illustration motif throughout ISBN: 978-1-64548-119-5 A Review by Gene Stewart Superlative Southern Gothic, the best of its type I’ve ever read. The physical volume is beautifully published. It … Continue reading →

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Harsh Words From A Buried Box

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Some snarls, growls, and facts to be faced without fear. It’s not that you write, it’s that you publish that matters.  In the digital age this leads to a torrent of amateur work that floods the market, gluts the browsers, … Continue reading →

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Electronic Voice Phenomena & Me

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Gene Stewart

In 1976 I was in Gelnhausen, Germany listening to AFRTS radio as I was writing one afternoon about local and regional alchemists, having visited a few of their haunts. On came an interesting segment about EVPs, a topic I’d not … Continue reading →

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Decoding “Classic” TV

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Gene Stewart

A percipient commentary by John Oliver regarding Dick Wolf’s Law and Order empire revealed how propagandistic and unrealistic it is. Diane Neal, who played an assistant district attorney on the show, chimed in to concur a few days later. It’s neither … Continue reading →

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Teach Change Via Fact

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Gene Stewart

We live as ants amidst ruins we don’t even see. /// Academia’s stability is its fatal flaw.  Tenure and established texts ensure a hostility to changes in curriculum evidence should bring.  College and university campuses should be places of continual … Continue reading →

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Culture Theft Vs. Exploration

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Cultural appropriation would neither work nor matter if it didn’t sell. It is those supporting it that make it vile. There is a racist market for such theft. When Pat Boone whitened music by Little Richard or Chuck Berry, that … Continue reading →

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Marched Through Chaos Into Tyranny

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Gene Stewart

“From chaos to monarchy,” is the GOP’s rallying cry. They don’t want anarchy. Exactly the opposite. They want a king, a permanent tyrant. Authoritarianism is their addiction.  Most GOP followers or supporters don’t care if the strong man is conservative … Continue reading →

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Intolerance Must Not Be Tolerated

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Keep art free and we keep ourselves free. A book called My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent focuses on long-term incestuous abuse by a father on a daughter and on others. That it’s written by a man has led to … Continue reading →

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Torn in Twain

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Sam Clemens wrote well but lost interest in many of his stories before finishing them. “A Ghost’s Story” is a good example. This led to strong openings, silly middles, and tacked-on endings. When interest stayed strong throughout, he produced masterpieces.  … Continue reading →

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