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Linh Dinh on Hyperreal vs. Authentic

Listen HERE The brilliant Linh Dinh‘s latest, an interview with João Guimaraes, includes reflections on the hyperreal vs. authentic (i.e. mediated vs. reality). Synchronistically, my latest essay begins: “There are disasters, and there are media representations of disasters. But what if representations are the worst disasters of all?” Even more synchronistically: Last Monday night, after I had triumphantly finished that piece on the horrors of life on the internet, which includes a rant against cell phones and a modest amount of bragging about how I do everything on only one device—a laptop—I used “force shutdown” to turn off my laptop…

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John Manley on “Much Ado About Corona”

Listen HERE John Manley, author of the terrific new novel Much Ado About Corona, recently wrote to his readers: Dear Reader, Hot date tonight? Tell ’em you got monkeypox because… Today at 8pm EST I’ll be on Dr. Kevin Barrett’s Truth Jihad radio show. Barrett is an American Muslim who was expelled from teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 for contradicting the official story around 911 (and then writing a book about it). Today he is contradicting the official story around COVID-19. While I’m not Islamic myself, I’ve long been a fan of the Muslim poets Rumi, Omar Khayyam…

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Homer Van Meter on “Living in Rome: A 9/11 Story”

Listen HERE Wisconsin lumberjack and author Homer Van Meter recently published Living in Rome: A 9/11 Story. Though thinly-disguised autobiography, it reads like a novel and packs a powerful punch. If Hemingway had been around to predict 9/11 a few days before it happened while on a moose hunting trip, then survive a near-lethal attack triggered by his truth-telling, he might have written something like this.

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