Moronic Ox Originals
Here and There - Then and Now
Guest Editor Sandra Cuza talks about the difficulties of coming home after living abroad for more than a quarter century
"The Day to Shape the Days Upon"
Open Books author Chuck Crabbe reads from The Road by Cormac McCarthy:
"Manhattan"
fiction by Joe B. Vaughn, Jr.
"Mrs. MacMillan's Garden"
From the novel, Twin Oaks, to be published by Open Books in Spring 2015
Melissa Palmer
An Interview with Mary Shelley,
Author of 'Frankenstein'
An imagined interview of the author by R Daneel Olivaw,
the robot from Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' novels.
He asks her about her life, love, work
and influence on science fiction.
Written and directed by Christy Fearn.
From the novel
FRAMED
by Christy Fearn
Published by Open Books (2013)
"Return to Mameluke Bath"
Eleanor Bowen-Jones
"One To A Million"
Tim Cole
"Donald"
Donald O'Donovan talks about his writing career, travels, literary influences, painting, day jobs, chickens and, of course, his novels...
"Degrees of Degeneration"
Bobby Williams
"Unseen"
Glen Still
"MONSTER MOVIES: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE"
David Gariff
"Me and Shirley - Shirley Jones!"
Author Susie Duncan Sexton
Reads from Her Upcoming Book
More Secrets of an Old Typewriter:
Misunderstood Gargoyles & Overrated Angels
Poets International
"Oxford is a port"
by Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
"bones and planes" by Alicia Young
"An Individual Free-born In The Collective" by Christopher Barnes
"Alice (Part IV)" and
"End Game"
From the memoir Bent
Teri Louise Kelly
Highway by Donald O'Donovan
(Open Books 2011)
Review by Susie Duncan Sexton
The value of fiction in exploring and representing the Holocaust:
Bernard Schlink's The Reader
(First appeared in issue 39 of
‘Tears in the Fence’.)
Gregory Heath
From the recently published Open Books novel
The Woman Who Lost China
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
"ChinaShock"
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
"Place Matters"
Clint Smith
"Flight"
Adele Elliott
Open Books author Miha Mazzini
Author of 28 books published 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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As French émigré Roman Catholics, Lizette Molyneux and her brother Robert are used to an existence on the edge of their Regency Nottingham community. But when Robert is arrested for a crime he insists he did not commit, Lizzie must draw on all her strength and courage to help him. Overcoming poverty, prejudice and the unwanted advances of her employer’s son, she unites with the frame-breaking Luddites to free her brother and to rectify social injustice.
With all the excitement of Sharpe (Bernard Cornwell), as well as the social commentary of Elizabeth Gaskell and Victor Hugo, Framed dramatises the issues of a turbulent time and champions the resistance of poverty-stricken workers. If you liked Les Miserables, then you’ll love Framed!
Now Available
from Open Books
When his family moves to a small French Canadian town Ezra’s conflict with the moral system and religion he is surrounded by intensifies. A charismatic new friend soon leads him into a world of crime and dangerous taboos. The Christian God, as well as the father who abandoned him, haunts Ezra as he wrestles with the temptations of this dark new path. Is the dreamy image of his ghostly mother (always accompanied by a strange and mysterious goat) somehow leading him toward liberation, or are these specters the symptoms of an impending psychiatric breakdown?
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Only an act of shameful impiety offers Ezra Mignon escape and eventual salvation. But can he betray, and even murder, the God that his community worships? And can he live with the divine blood on his hands?
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Stories, Poems, Articles, Excerpts, Videos, Interviews, Fine Arts Expo
Shared Content
Article
by David Sirota
Article
Tom Engelhardt
Article
Jason Linkins
Author Interview
from Metro Magazine
Book Review
"Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang has created a masterpiece and one that that you will remember for years to come... A page-turning, realistic story that spans a century and three continents."—Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of GOOD CHINESE WIFE: LOVE AFFAIR WITH CHINA GONE WRONG
Retro-Music
Watch Billy Joel live at Wembley (1984)
Full concert
It's a burner!
Book Review
Profile
Video
Poetry/Spoken Word
Article
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.
Article
From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia.
When the traveling cinema comes to a Yugoslavian village in 1950, the young men and women are introduced to Mexican melodramas depicting the Mexican revolution, and they become entranced by not only the heroes of these films, but also by the music. In the midst of their own political nightmare, they escape reality through the exploits of the cinematic revolutionaries, and in the morning the younger men of the village seem to know the songs by heart and form their own Mariachi band.
Love, cinema, music, military bravado, intrigue and the promise of revolution play out in a tiny mountain village, but the pseudo-Mexican farce is about to end, because the Supreme Commander General is on his way to see for himself just what is going on…
Enchanting Audio book for kids
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Charlie Spinner has just been dumped by his trophy girlfriend, so to soothe the pain of rejection he embarks upon a night out with his two best friends, Ed (aka Ball Bag) and Fat Dave. Lamenting the dullness of their lives – grab bag relationships (or lack thereof), go-nowhere jobs, and of course ever-present money woes, Fat Dave wonders whimsically if it might be possible to turn a single one-pound coin into a million pounds. Playing along with his friend’s fantasy, Charlie deposits the change from a round of beers - one pound - into a slot machine and wins a one thousand-pound jackpot. But can Charlie rise to Fat Dave’s challenge to turn a one pound coin into one million pounds? Or is there an even greater prize waiting for him on the Las Vegas Strip? You make the odds…
Orgasmo is author Donald O'Donovan's autobiographical account of a long ignored writer's vow to never write again. But, alas, the vow is as destined to failure as O'Donovan's puckish alter-ego is to literary obscurity.
A love letter (of sorts) to LA, O'Donovan is in rare form as we watch his calliope of characters, hustlers and hopefuls alike, whirl past to chronicle the writer's long and perilous journey from penny-a-word hack writer for a pulp fiction mill to an underground literary beacon.
"If you’re going to write a book about changing sex, why not...give it some balls?"
A memoir in her most personal voice, Teri Louise Kelly tells us what it's really like to be born in the wrong body...
Heartbeats...
the memoirs of pioneer heart surgeon Constantine "Dino" Tatooles, M.D.
Dino's stories, as told to James E. Tatooles, will quite literally "warm your heart" and chronicle the advances in cardiac surgery during the past 50 years.
Melissa Palmer’s deft prose casts a shadow over suburban society and exposes the darker aspects of personality that
hide behind the superficial light of façade.
