Author: Stephen McClurg

I like red peppers and Jan Švankmajer movies. 1. Current Listening: Psychic TV 2. Current Viewing: Vittorio De Seta's Documentary Short Films 3. Current Reading: Michael Tau: Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between
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Omit Heedless Words: The Elements of Style According to Emma Woodhouse

Pride and Prejudice has been a favorite novel since college. I found it a difficult, rewarding book. I found the prose difficult initially, but I kept reading because I enjoyed the Bennetts so much. I read Pride and Prejudice at least four times before it dawned on me that I should read Austen’s other novels. … Continue reading Omit Heedless Words: The Elements of Style According to Emma Woodhouse

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Trust No One Constipated: More UFOs and the Loch Ness Eel

After writing about martians yesterday, I remembered two of my favorite extraterrestrial quotes in the old Mysteries of Mind, Space, and Time collection:  Truth is denied to the constipated.  That which is known as cancer comes through the teeth.  While these are my preferred translations, the editors graciously offer a variation on each. Constipated for … Continue reading Trust No One Constipated: More UFOs and the Loch Ness Eel

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In Space No One Can Hear You Kaboom: A Poem

I wrote this Robert Frost/Marvin The Martian poem for a pop culture poetry anthology that ultimately didn’t get published or funded or something. Maybe reading Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” and its “empty spaces between stars” led me to thinking about one of my favorite cartoon characters. I had read Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a … Continue reading In Space No One Can Hear You Kaboom: A Poem

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The Shilling of a Sacred Deer: Plutarch’s Sertorius and The White Fawn

I’ve mentioned my current long-term reading project is Plutarch’s Parallel Lives and how enjoyable the passages on Archimedes were. Another favorite sequence is on Quintus Sertorius. If you’ve read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, then you’ve already got an idea of what kind of guy Sertorius was: a statesman, a member of the nobility, and a general. … Continue reading The Shilling of a Sacred Deer: Plutarch’s Sertorius and The White Fawn

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From the Eunoia Archives: An Interview with Writer Emma Bolden

You can follow Emma on Twitter and at A Century of Nerve, and why not check out her new book House Is an Enigma, as well. It’s fantastic. Originally published at Eunoia Solstice in 2017. It’s been a privilege to read Emma Bolden’s work for a decade now and a pleasure to be continually surprised by it. On … Continue reading From the Eunoia Archives: An Interview with Writer Emma Bolden