Podcasts
A Good Story is Hard to Find
A podcast where Julie Davis and I discuss books and movies we love as well as themes of belief, faith, and the “one reality” below the surface.
The Shelf Wear Podcast
A podcast I ran for about a year on this site where I invited friends to participate in book and story discussions. I enjoyed every episode! Click the graphic above to get to the episodes.And occasionally I’m a guest on:
The SFFaudio Podcast
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That is no good place
A few miles from here a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch above a mere; the overhanging bank is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface. At night there, something uncanny happens: the water burns. And the mere bottom … Continue reading
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
I re-read “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu yesterday. Find it here, at Clarkesworld. What a wonderful story that is. It brings “Animal Farm” by George Orwell to mind for obvious reasons – anthropomorphic animals … Continue reading
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The Guns of August
The opening paragraph of The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman: So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and … Continue reading
From Decision Points by George W. Bush
I re-read some of this book (published in 2010) this weekend, and am reminded of the perspective of President Bush during the time following 9/11. He describes being given the badge of someone who died when the towers fell, and … Continue reading
Happy Catholic by Julie Davis, An Appreciation
This is not so much a review of my friend Julie’s book, but an appreciation, for her book is exactly my kind of thing, and appreciate it I do. As I re-embraced Catholicism years ago, there were stumbling blocks. One … Continue reading
Charles van Doren and Science Fiction
Julie and I talked about the movie Quiz Show in our last Good Story podcast, and I brought up how Charles van Doren was connected to Thomas Merton and Mortimer Adler. What I did not know was that Charles van … Continue reading
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
I learned a couple of important things from Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. First, I’m a lightweight when it comes to sports fanaticism. And second, I need to suffer a lot more before I’m allowed to complain about Liverpool. The first … Continue reading