Tag: writing
LOSING THE MESSAGE
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
*** 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
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
SETI AND THE DANGERS OF MAGICAL THINKING An Essay, May 19, 2020 *** “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan, Contact *** Scientists at the University of Nottingham have recently speculated […] Read More
Finite Jest
*** 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