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| Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:40AM | | | | While I've Been Gone | Tags: Old West, romanticism, Empire, rebellion, mudsill, slaves, sovereignty, education, health care, marriage, sex, Cuba, Philippines
| | | | While I’ve Been Gone
I have neglected this blog for a while to write a novel “Jade:The Law.” The book is now finished except for editing and the cover. Once those are finished, I will be back to blogging. “Jade:The Law,” my ninth novel is scheduled for e-book publication in September and print publication in November. Print takes longer.
Jade:The Law is in some ways a sequel to “Jade: Outlaw” as both books share many of the same characters. However, “Jade:The Law” is broader in scope covering the coming of law to the West, the romanticization of the West, the beginning of the American Empire, rebellion against the Union continuing underground, and the survival of antebellum Southern ideas such as:
A “mudsill” people of inferior quality, a... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:14AM | | | | War and the Novel | Tags: Atxaga, Florian, Gavron, Rahimi, war, inspiration, Afghanistan, Gaza, Romania, Spanish Civil War
| | | The four writers Bernardo Atxaga of Spain, Assaf Gavron of Israel, Atiq Rahimi of France, Afghanistan and I wonder where else, and Filip Florian of Romania met in the cool confines of Scandinavia House and discussed in depth the sources of their inspiration.
It was a bit surprising at first to see these four male writers, flanked by their translators, all young women and the moderator Susan K, but the translators more than held their own.
Assaf Gavron, the one writer without a translator, began by reading from his novel CROCATTACK that begins on a bus. A woman has become suspicious of another rider and tries to engage the protagonist in seeing the other rider as a threat. Gavron's point was that... | | | | | | | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:28PM | | | | Give Me Barabbas | Tags: Jesus, Judea, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Roman, Communist, terrorist
| | | | Give Me Barabbas
Pilate, the governor of Judea, offered the people a choice. He would free one prisoner: Jesus or Barabbas. Jesus had ridden into Jerusalem with great acclaim. He was a peacemaker; he was the only health policy many of them had. Barabbas was a murderer. And the people chose Barabbas.
Given a choice between Jesus and Barabbas why anyone could choose Barabbas?
I visited Cambodia when the Vietnamese army occupied the cities and the Khmer Rouge occupied the mountains and set ambushes in the forests. In Phnom Penh refugees from the countryside had moved into French villas, sometimes whole families to a room; goats were kept on balconies and rice was cooked over open fires on the sidewalk. The peasants dug up the... | | | | | |
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