Tag: Writer

Dune is the mystical science fiction story from the pen of Frank Herbert, where the Atreides & Harkonnen families battle for world supremacy, all the while unknowingly guided by Bene Gesserit witches while Fremen fight for their freedom. This post was inspired by seeing the first Villeneuve movie. After that, I read the prequels by […]

Lillian Ross, who became known as the consummate fly-on-the-wall reporter in more than six decades at The New Yorker, whether writing about Ernest Hemingway, Hollywood or a busload of Indiana high school seniors on a class trip to New York. Ms. Ross preached unobtrusive reporting and practiced what she preached. She outlined her credo in […]

“We have an entire sky within us, our fiery strength and heavenly origin: Luna, which symbolizes the continuous motion of soul and body, Mars speed and Saturn slowness, the Sun God, Jupiter law, Mercury reason, and Venus humanity.”    – Marsilio Ficino, letter to Lorenzo the Magnificent on the sacred seven planets.

It is with a sad heart we post that Bill Roche, a former Administrator of the Sabian Assembly, has reposed. He was a wonderful man, a kind spirit and gifted author though the book he co-authored with Stanley Carnarius, has been out of print so long that I have forgotten, unfortunately, it’s title. When we […]

A new book has come out on the Lizzie Borden trial.  We have reprinted it below for those interested in the case.  Our header image is a newspaper collage of the character illustrations from the trial over 100 years ago.  

Mary Margaret McBride was born to a Missouri farming family in 1899. Her earliest education was “disorganized” because the family often relocated, but she entered a preparatory academy at six and at 16 entered the University of Missouri; she earned her journalism degree by the age of 19. Having reasonable success as a “girl journalist” […]

Sir Richard Francis Burton is renowned for the being the first European to penetrate Arabian culture in the 19th century so thoroughly that he was able to write sixteen volumes of their stories and folktales in The Arabian Nights. His books are here on Gutenberg.org. Click here to download sir-Richard-burton’s chart