Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4565 )

• Feeling Used

  

  It may be perverse of me, but it makes me happy that used copies of all my books can be found on Bookfinder.com. I discovered Bookfinder many years ago and it i... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Praise of Paper Maps

  

  One of the tricks, I’ve mentioned before, for getting around accessing books I can’t afford, is the used book market.  Now Amazon is probably just about as bad... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Listening to History

  

  One thing fascists around the world are attempting to do is rewrite history. Inevitably white, they want to paint themselves as good and superior. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Day with Books

  

  .  Is there any better kind of day?  Before I lapse into poetry I want to put in one more plug for the Easton Book Festival.  Today is the last day for this... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Skin In

  

  It took me back to my younger years. Tanya Krzywinska’s A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film. Wide ranging and insightful, this... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ebf

  

  The third annual Easton Book Festival is underway.  As part of it Eric Ziolkowski, the chair of the Religious Studies department at Lafayette College,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Monster

  

  The Babadook is a horror film about loneliness. Written and directed by Jennifer Kent, it has an arthouse cinema feel to it. I missed it when it came out in... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Interview Two

  

  October turns the northern hemisphere mind toward Halloween.  It must be strange to receive northern media while living in the global south—Halloween occurs jus... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kindred Spirit?

  

  Possession stories have a poignancy to them that perhaps other horror stories lack. The loss of self-control is a frightful thing. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Documenting Horror

  

  Watching documentaries always seems to raise questions.  I recently found A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss on YouTube. Produced by the BBC in 2010, the set... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Steel Industry

  

  It was a building on Broadway, just south of Times Square.  I don’t know the name of the building or remember what business it may have housed, but I did... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Face Away

  

  I’m avoiding Facebook for a while.  Here’s why.  I started a Facebook account when I first got involved in social media.  (Publishers say you have to build a... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paywall

  

  They were my former employer, for goodness sake!  Here’s how it happened.  It begins with research.  Nobody is born knowing all they need to learn.  Research... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• It’s Thorpe, Jim

  

  On a rainy fall day we found ourselves in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.  We’d been through the touristy town before, but had never had any luck finding parking so... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dark Academia

  

  Genres can be slippery things.  Those of us who dabble in fiction sometimes find it difficult to describe what we do.  Writing is individual expression and it... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eve’s True Desire

  

  Psst—don’t tell anyone!  There is a free copy of my first book available on Academia.edu. I thought I was kind of radical for doing that, but people who write... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Taking Part

  

  It’s always a pleasure to be invited, even if not as a proper guest.  To an academic conference, I mean.  Most of us sit around feeling pretty obscure most of... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What’s Class Got to Do with It?

  

  As an editor you get to read synopses of nascent books across a wide variety of disciplines.  A live topic in sociology and poli-sci is class.  As in “the hidde... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quest for Quest

  

  The Quest for the Wicker Man is a rarity. Not only is it very difficult to locate and very expensive if you do find it, it’s also a collection of essays where... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paper Chase

  

  Maybe you’ve done it too.  Kissed the posterior of technology.  Up until three years ago I didn’t pay bills online.  I waited for a bill, wrote a check,... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY