Apart from getting my picture taken in the book fair holding a loft a giant stuffed fish, late yesterday afternoon I was on the panel chaired by poet Zack Rogow with novelist Charles Johnson (standing in for E. Ethelbert Miller) and another extraordinary poet, Mark Doty.Doty gave the lie to my rather cavalier assertion that blogging about oneself was...
Writers' Blogs (and My Blog): Eight Conclusions After 8 Years of Blogging
Herewith, the notes for my talk for the Associated Writing Programs conference panel discussion "Homesteading the Digital Frontier: Writers' Blogs."How to blog, how not to blog... that was a hot topic a few years ago, when blogging was new, and indeed in 2008, for the Maryland...
The Secret Life of a Secret Book: The Barcelona Edition of Francisco I. Madero's Manual espírita
The edition from Barcelona's Casa Editorial Maucci,date unknown, but after 1913.(The original Manual espirita was published in Mexico in 1911.) Its author, Bhima, was Francisco I. Madero,leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and President of Mexico, 1911-1913.Very few people...
Biografía (Biography) edited by Mílada Bazant (and my essay about El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano)
una colección de ensayoscompilada porMílada BazantPrólogo de Enrique KrauzeReposting from my other blog (sharing research about Mexico's tumultuous period of the 1860s known as the French Intervention / Second Empire):It was a delight and an honor to be able to attend Mexican...
Cyberflanerie: Camelmania Edition
Gearing up to return to my far West Texas book project-- so I am reading up on camels, which were imported to that desert region by the U.S. Army back in the 19th century. George Marsh's 1856 classic The Camel, now a free download on archive.orgTexas Mountain...
Guiseppe Garibaldi's "A Toast to Rebellion" and the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Guiseppe Garibaldi posing in Russian UniformOne of the little-known but movie-worthy aspects of Mexico's 1910 Revolution is the role of mercenaries-- American machine-gunners, Germans of various stripes, a Scandinavian (yes, really) and even an Italian of some fame: the self-styled...
Cyberflanerie: The Voynich Manuscript, Books, Used Books, Rare Books, and the Future of Bookstores Edition
Totally huge news: The mysterious circa 15th or 16th century Voynich manusucript might be of Mexican origin: Arthur O. Tucker and Rexford H. Talbert make a very interesting case in, of all places, HerbalGram, the Journal of the American Botanical Council, issue 100, 2013, in...
Andrew Jackson Davis, the Seer of Poughkeepsie
One of the many unlikely personalities featured in my latest book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual, is the so-called "Seer of Poughkeepsie," Andrew Jackson Davis, the "John the Baptist" of Spiritualism--...
The Memoirs of Rafael L. Hernández Madero (Memorias de Rafael L. Hernández)
In the past few years a passel of vitally important biographies and memoirs of the Mexican Revolution have been published in both the US and Mexico-- though in Mexico, alas, these have been mainly in very small print runs, making it difficult if not impossible to find a copy...
Cyberflanerie: Bajacaliforniana
The ever-inspiring Graham Mackintosh, author of Nearer My Dog to Thee: A Summer in Baja's Sky Island, among several other Baja classics, is back. Check out his website:San Pedro Martir 2012Picacho May 2013Picacho June 2013Picacho July 2013And more for Baja Buffs: >Trailer...
Note #2 Re: Homesteading on the Digital Frontier: Readers? The Whopper-Foie Analogy
Yesterday I posted about my upcoming Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference panel on writers' blogs, "Homesteading on the Digital Frontier," to be chaired by poet and Advice to Writers blogger Zack Rogow. First of all, when we're talking about "writers" at AWP we generally mean literary writers. And while "literary" and "the market" have been...
Homesteading on the Digital Frontier: My Humble Opinion on Google Analytics and Comments
Madame BlavatskyMega-magnet on the digital frontier(No relation to Madam Mayo...but one sends a salute on the astral plane)Gearing up for the Associated Writing Programs conference panel "Homesteading on the Digital Frontier: Writers' Blogs," to be chaired by poet Zack Rogow,...
