Moronic Ox Originals
"Trump fiddles while the world burns"
Guest Editor Dr. Lorin R. Robinson
"What Will You Believe?"
Open Books author Simon Campbell lists
"10 lies (or inaccuracies) that people generally accept as truths:
10 truths that people usually regard as lies (or fiction)"
Moronic Ox Talks with Author and Social Activist Tamara Pearson
"I am not John Wayne"
Jonathan Bennett
"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
Open Books author Miha Mazzini
Author of 28 books in 9 languages
Winner of the Pushcart & Golden Palm for best film of 2012 and Best Director at Highgate Film Festival, London
Discusses the writing of his novel,
Paloma Negra
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Book Review
A Progressive on the Prairie
a blog about books, reading and other things
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Article
"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?"
Book Review
Video
Poetry/Spoken Word
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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.
From First Kiss to Forever:
A Scientific Approach to Love
Do you want to understand the science behind finding a mate, maintaining long-lasting relationships, or even what makes some relationships doomed to fail? Help your relationships grow and flourish, and have a few hearty laughs along the way.
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."
"A Haunting And Beautiful Book..." Reviews:
Remember For Me
by
Diana Tarant Schmidt
The Ballet Lover is a refined, mesmerizing, fictional account of two of the most celebrated dancers in the world, Rudolph Nureyev and Natalia Makarova, how one compromised the other, and how the drama on the stage often mirrors those played out in real life.
In An Empty Room by Stephen Spotte
ISBN-13: 978-1948598002
SRP (Paperback) $16.95 / SRP (eBook) $7.99
Genre: Fiction
When a Marine fireteam searches an isolated Vietnamese village believed to be a supply depot for the Viet Cong an IED explodes, leaving only one survivor of the five-man unit. But who is he: Bunny, Hillbilly, Poke, Injun, or "the LT"? Because he is horribly burned, disfigured, and unable to speak, the military doctors don't know, but the people back home in a coal mining camp in southern West Virginia think they know. Most unsettling of all the survivor himself isn't certain who he is.
