Moronic Ox Originals
"America's Language War: How Hateful Speech Has Eroded our Culture"
by Guest Editor
Arthur Ciaramicoli, Ed.d, Ph.D
Moronic Ox Talks with Author and Social Activist Tamara Pearson
"Maybe It's The Water"
David Gersh
"Laughter And Early Sorrow"
Brett Busang
"Brett Busang Talks H Street"
H Street Uncovered:
A Journalism Capstone Project
American University
Video by Kate Priddy
"Praising the Bones
of the Old Country"
Milana Marsenich
"Return to Mameluke Bath"
Eleanor Bowen-Jones
From the Open Books novel
Swift Dam
Sid Gustafson
"Donald"
Donald O'Donovan talks about his writing career, travels, literary influences, painting, day jobs, chickens and, of course, his novels...
"Don Quixote de Las Vegas"
A short story
M. Cid d'Angelo
War Cries
Unheard Voices, Unmarked Graves
Poetry of Kerry Arquette
Spoken Word
"Rachel Stanz"
presented by Stacey Frizzell
"Lydia Klemenko"
presented by Deborah Sutcliffe
"MONSTER MOVIES: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE"
David Gariff
Visit all 54 African countries
with Mark Wentling
("Africa Mark")
Plus an interview with the author
"Unnatural Selection"
From the memoir Fresh Cut
E.J. Bouinatchova
"How Central Asia Changed My Life"
by David H. Mould
Musician & Author David Rat passed away on 3/3/18; this interview was first published in Moronic Ox in 2012
"Looking for Literary America"
Episode 1: Raymond Chandler
James Hitt
"Stop Making Sense"
Andrew Pessin
"A Dandy Little Game"
Review by Brett Busang
Moronic Ox talks with author
Lorin R. Robinson
about his book, Tales from The Warming
"Exodus"
Viatupu, Tuvalu, Polynesia
November, 2027
Lorin R. Robinson
"My Mother's Romance:
Gertrude Berg and the Goldbergs"
Barbara L. Baer
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A Progressive on the Prairie
a blog about books, reading and other things
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Tamara Pearson
"What is Poverty?"
Video
Poetry/Spoken Word
Article
Crows are among the planet's most intelligent animals, teaching their young to use tools for foraging and banding together to fight off intruders. Now, the first study of how abstract reasoning works in these birds' brains could shed light on how intelligence works in a truly alien, non-mammal brain.
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The Irrationalist
by Andrew Pessin
(Historical murder mystery )
Who would want to murder the world’s most famous philosopher?
Turns out: nearly everyone.
In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher. Though he was the world’s leading philosopher, his life had by this point fallen apart. He was 53, penniless, living in exile in Amsterdam, alone. With much trepidation but not much choice, he arrived in Stockholm in mid-October.
Shortly thereafter he was dead.
The feminine spirit of the West comes alive in early twentieth century Montana.
Set in the Copper Camp of Butte, Montana in 1917, Copper Sky tells the story of two women with opposite lives. Kaly Shane, mired in prostitution, struggles to find a safe home for her unborn child, while Marika Lailich, a Slavic immigrant, dodges a pre-arranged marriage to become a doctor. As their paths cross, and they become unlikely friends, neither knows the family secret that ties them together.
Made to Break Your Heart is a family saga, set in a gossipy suburb, that explores the complexities of raising a child, holding a marriage together, and maintaining your sanity in the cutthroat world of Little League baseball.
Natasha's Not My Name by Isabella Grosso with ML Bordner
Dancer and actress Isabella Grosso introduces readers to the complex underground of the strip club industry as seen from the perspective of a sixteen-year-old as she struggles, and ultimately survives as a child-turned-adult with a double life.
Africa Memoir, Vol.1,2 & 3
by Mark G. Wentling
Visit all 54 African countries with an adventurous American guide who has spent over half a century on the continent.
The Autobiography of Satan
This is the story of Satan's many struggles, across the history of Human existence, to unshackle the Human mind, and open the gates to forbidden knowledge.
Undaunted Optimist
(Essay / Humor)
by Chris Rodell
“Rodell writes about America the way Sinatra sings about New York, unflinching about the gritty realities, but with abiding affection and relentless positivity about the future.”
—Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge
It’s a zany world out there and it takes a nimble mind to sort it all out. Rodell does it with style, warmth, an engaging euphoria and undaunted optimism that lets every reader know he enjoys being human and enjoys human beings.
Passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste in a changing India.
With its turbulent passions amid social upheavals, The Last Devadasi takes readers on a sensual feast in the 1970s palm-shaded trading city of Madras.
Article
CJ Liu interviews Dr. Arthur P Ciarmamicoli about his newest book The Triumph of Diversity.
Part 1 of 4
"Postcards from the Borderlands is gracefully interwoven with history and geography, and guaranteed to ignite a bit of wanderlust in anyone who shares Mould’s sense of wonder and adventure at our strangely eclectic world of borders." —Natalie Koch, Associate Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, New York
"Postcards from the Borderlands is a love letter to the world by an “accidental” travel writer." —Jean Andrews, award-winning video documentary producer and science writer
