Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4568 )

• Kind Animals

  

  How many people could it be? That’s the question a pandemic naturally raises. Last weekend my wife and I ventured to a Vegan Festival in Easton. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Large Projects

  

  Now, where was I? I suspect it’s the same with you. We’ve got so many things going that it’s difficult to keep up with them all. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Parable of the Dates

  

  Speaking of resurrection, a news story I saw on Agade, apparently originating in the New York Times, tells of dates. The kind you eat. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Index Fingers

  

  I’ve occasionally written about how authors obsess over indices, or indexes, for their books. These days most things are looked up electronically, but this... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remaking King

  

  Pet Sematary is (or was), according to Stephen King, his most bleak book. The first movie made from it (Mary Lambert, 1989) never reached the iconic status of... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Proof in the PDF

  

  The proofs of Nightmares with the Bible are sitting right here on this laptop. If I’ve seemed distracted, now you know why. My life is unaccountably busy for a... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Documentary

  

  It all comes down to people and honesty. Given the bald-faced lies that come from the White House these days, honesty is at a premium. There are, however, alway... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Propaganda

  

  “[F]or the most part, thinking is inherently and irrepressibly liberal.” As much as those who’ve drunk the Trump Kool-Aid (watered down, for sure) might want... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Preorder Alert

  

  Although you can buy most anything from Amazon, the book industry is particularly under its hegemony. I have to admit that I enjoy browsing there, and often... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Defining Evil

  Recently someone said, in a conversation in which I was involved, that understanding evil as entirely a human construct wasn’t working for her. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bird Land

  

  Since I like to blog about books, my usual reading practice is to stick with a book once I start it. This can be problematic for short story collections... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Born to Fly

  

  WikiTree is a web-based, free genealogy site. I’m too busy these days to do much digging, but it’s hard not to stop and consider it once in a while. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Setting the Mood

  

  I can’t recall how I learned about Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, but it was one of those books I knew I wanted to read. One thing I do recall is that I... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Laboring

  

  I can remember when Labor Day was about honoring workers. I suppose it still is, in some circles. At the top, however, the strategy is to give all the breaks... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Walk in the Park

  

  About five years ago my wife and I took a drive along the infamous Shades of Death road in Warren County, New Jersey. Urban legend has all kinds of creepiness... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Walnuts

  

  The walnuts are always the first to turn. At least around here they are. Their yellow leaves began to litter the bike path in August. Their nuts can be quite a... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Addenda

  

  One of the perceived advantages of electronic publication is the possibility of corrections. I say “perceived” because this casts us into the deep sea of... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Little Bit

  

  I don’t know about you, but I have a complicated relationship with genres. As a fiction writer I have great difficulty classifying what I write, and that shows... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yellow Jackets

  

  Deeply conflicted. That’s how I feel about calling the exterminator. The longer I’m alive the more eastern my thinking becomes. What right do I have to kill... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nightmares’ Progress

  

  Ironically for someone who works in academic publishing, I have my own issues of how books are priced. I understand why, however, because I can see sales trends. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY