LOSING THE MESSAGE

Posted on December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 by John

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) *** Movie mogul Samuel Goldman reportedly once said, “If ya wanna send a message, use Western Union.” (1) But despite Samuel Goldman’s misgivings, many authors do set out to deliver a message in their work, sometimes to great effect. Certainly, Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is one of those […] Read More

SALVAGERS BOOK LAUNCH

Posted on August 1, 2020December 8, 2022 by John

*** August 1, 2020 HELLO EVERYONE! We would like to announce the long-delayed BOOK LAUNCH for SALVAGERS A Satirical Science Fiction Novel By John Glenn Burke “How rich would you be if you lost all your money?” Dax Goodman, the world’s last surviving Doctor of Theology, finds himself marooned on a frontier outpost far from […] Read More

Losing Our Way

Posted on April 24, 2017August 3, 2020 by John

Robert Pirsig and The Corrosive Effect of Dualism “Making… an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.” — Robert M. Pirsig, (Interview, NPR, 1974) *** Robert Pirsig died today. For those who do not know who Robert Pirsig was, it might be difficult to describe how […] Read More

Finite Jest

Posted on February 1, 2016December 29, 2017 by John

*** Since its release in the mid-nineties, I had always intended to read ‘Infinite Jest’, the Seinfeldian(1) epic of biblical proportions by David Foster Wallace. With twenty years having passed since its publication, I have only just found the time and the mental capacity to absorb it, after three unsuccessful attempts. Written between 1993 and […] Read More