Journaliste Mauve: À deux doigts de la rue

 Nicolas Berube’s profile of me for Las Presse Canada (both print and online) is now running; the piece is  titled “À deux doigts de la rue” (Rough translation: “Two Fingers from the Street”). If you can read French or if you’re simply curious you can find Nic’s article here. I will post the full English [...]

Alternative Mathematics

“Popescu began to talk about a Romanian mathematician who lived from 1865 to 1936, a man who spent the last twenty years of his life devoted to the search for some ‘mysterious numbers’ hidden in a part of the vast landscape visible to man, though the numbers themselves were invisible and could live between rocks [...]

In the Valley of the Moon

Jack London’s San Francisco Stories Now Available

In retrospect, what amazes and flatters me the most is that editor Matt Asprey’s labor of love — an almost complete collection of Jack London’s writings about San Francisco and the Bay Area environs — began with an essay that I wrote in 2003 for an Irish literary journal, Dead Drunk Dublin, titled Ghost Land, [...]

The Quiet Australian

I am proud to announce that Pop Matters is now running a fascinating literary-minded travelogue that I commissioned two months ago from my friend and colleague Down Under, Matt Asprey; the whole thing started out as a personal e-mail update from Matt that was compelling enough for me to ask Matt to shape it into an essay [...]