Click Here to Read: Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science: An excellent new book examines pseudoscience in 22 essays by prominent scientists from various fields on the by Harriet Hall on the Science Based Medicine website on April 3, 2018.
Category: Literature
Italian Book #2: ‘Ernesto’ by Umberto Saba
The Death Drive Revisited: On Olivier Roy’s “Jihad and Death”
POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2018
Good morning, poetry lovers everywhere, on this early April day that actually, right after the dismal March that we in New England call “mud season,” feels like spring, with temperature in the near-balmy forties. While April isn’t really laughing her “girlish laughter,” neither is she yet weeping “girlish tears.”
This is also National Poetry Month, which we have celebrated for so long and with such verve that it’s hard to believe it was first introduced as recently as 1966 and has since become the largest literary festival in the world. Teachers in schools everywhere are introducing children to and helping them to experience poetry.
I had intended to make today’s column an exhortation – a call to you to be vigilant in service to poetry. Go to senior centers, assisted-living facilities, “over-55” residences. See that poetry isn’t relegated to a dim corner, and donate if you can. Go to your few-and-far-between independent bookstores, as well as the chains, and check out their collections. Look over the course catalogs that arrive in the mail. As you buy a poet’s collected works, donate the individual volumes to places where the collections are thin. Publicize what you’re doing and get people out to poetry events in your area –readings, book launches, and the like – and if there are none, organize some. Arts funding is drying up; fight it. Become a missionary on behalf of poetry. Buy the theme-based anthologies that support your causes, e.g., Poets in the Age of Trump. Did I imagine this title? Perhaps. And here’s an important question: How Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2018
John Cacioppo, Who Studied Effects of Loneliness, Is Dead at 66
Kurt R. Eissler and the Sigmund Freud Archives
IPBooks submitted for ABAPsa Prize and Gradiva Award Winners
IPBooks Gradiva Award Winners:
2013: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely Edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira and Arthur A. Lynch
2016: Quantum Psychoanalysis by Gerald J. Gargiulo.
List of the IPBooks titles submitted for the ABAPsa Book Prize:
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice by Sandra Buechler
Not Knowing Knowing Not Knowing: Festschrift in Honor of Shmuel Ehlich, Edited By Mira Erlich-Ginor
The Selected Papers of Arnold Goldberg, MD with Forward and Introduction by Gavin Mullen Continue reading IPBooks submitted for ABAPsa Prize and Gradiva Award Winners