Moronic Ox Originals
"The Elopement of Empathy:
Henry Ford and Donald Trump"
by Guest Editor
Gregory R. Piché
"The Bouillons of Paris"
Jayne R. Boisvert
Author of Pilgrimage to Paris:
The Cheapo Snob’s Guide to the City and the Americans Who Lived There
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
Blue Pearl Theatrics presents
Eviction du Jour
Directed by Sita Johnson
Written by Brett Busang
Plus an interview with the author
"Unnatural Selection"
From the memoir Fresh Cut
E.J. Bouinatchova
"Twilight"
by David A. Ross
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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Book Review
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"Considering all that’s been said and written about walls recently, I’m reluctant to add to the verbiage. But I couldn’t help but notice that supporters of Mr. Trump’s wall — the one he calls that 'physical, tall, powerful, beautiful
wall' — have not enlisted Robert Frost as an ally."
Tamara Pearson
"What is Poverty?"
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Mindblowing!
Two new physics papers add credence to the notion that the universe resembles a 3D Projection.
Rod Bastanmehr
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.
War Cries:
Unheard Voices, Unmarked Graves
In the end, the sound of war isn’t heard in the rattle of machine gun fire or the bellowing of bombs. It is in the voices of those who lived and died and the stories they have to share.
Tales from The Warming
Powerful, prophetic and poignant, Tales from The Warming is an anthology of ten short stories taking readers all over the world and over time to experience—in human terms—the growing impact of climate change.
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.
Stephen Spotte's imaginative novel recounts the tales of a scroungy former alley cat named Jinx, whose memories aren't just his own but those of other cats who existed before him, one of which was Annipe, Cleopatra's pampered pet. Through Annipe's eyes the ancient Mediterranean world of Cleopatra and her legendary lovers, Caesar and Antony, is spread before us in all its glory, pathos, and absurdity. Jinx reveals these stories telepathically one night to his stoned and inebriated owner just home after gall bladder surgery. Annipe's memories are bookended by Jinx's own that detail his early scavenging days in bleak urban alleys.
In her acceptance speech for the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards last night, author Annie Proulx said: "We don't live in the best of all possible worlds. This is a Kafkaesque time."
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.
In recounting the Ford litigation, Piché examines Ford’s parallel manipulation of public media to advance his own political and narcissistic agenda to become a public sage and an American president. It follows the initial rise of his reputation as a progressive capitalist to its ultimate erosion as a mean-spirited bigot and contributor to the propaganda that fueled the Holocaust.
Gregory R. Piché
