Here is a compilation of the resources we've previously shared for Hunger Action Month.
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Call to Action (National Farm to School Network)
By 2025, 100% of communities to hold power in a racially just food system. Here's how you can help make it happen!
This article highlights how hunger in Latino and Black families rose in 2020 due to the pandemic unemployment.
This article outlines the benefits of returning to a Native food system and the benefits it would have for our health and the planet.
“The Legend of the Three Sisters” (Oneida Indian Nation)
This article tells the legend of the Three Sisters, a legend that most Tribal Nations have, albeit different version. To read the Haudenosaunee legend, you will have to read this article!
“Timeline of Latino Farmer Movements in the U.S.” (Latino Outdoors)
This article talks about the impact of Latinx workers and farmers. The timeline shows labor victories for Hispanic agricultural workers, migrant worker rights, environmental protections, and many more.
“A Farmer Like Me: Exploring Hunger, Race and Farming in America" a Q&A with Lorrie Clevenger (Issuu)
This book shows the experience as a Black farmer and the vision of a food justice activist on how to make our agricultural system better.
“My Food, Your Food” written by Lisa Bullard, illustrated by Christine M. Schneider (read aloud)
This children's book is about different types of food from other countries. Use it to learn about different foods and cultures!
“The River Is in Us” by Elizabeth Hoover
This book discusses pollutants contaminating food, water, and bodies, Native Americans, or social justice with a focus on Akwesasne (upstate New York).
“Make Farmers Black Again: African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland” (North Country Public Radio)
This interview discusses the barriers to success for African American farmers. People of color are want to farm again, but discrimination and rising costs are not helping their cause.
“Report recommends ways to make New York farming more diverse” (North Country Public Radio)
This interview with Julian Mangano talks about the need for improved access to land, education, and an acknowledgement that historical barriers have led to the inequity in farm ownership across New York. They talk about the many ways to make the farming population more diverse.
“Eat Affordably at the Farmer’s Market” (SNAP Ed NY)
This video shows you the steps of how to eat healthy while you are on a budget!
“Food Is a Social Justice Issue” (The Doctor's Farmacy)
This video talks about the racial inequalities that happen within the food system. Leah Penniman, an educator, farmer, author, and food justice activist cofounded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 to end racism in the food system. This video talks about how most of the resources available are more readily available to white farmers, even though many of our sustainable practices stem from African and Indigenous roots.
“Kids Respond to Child Hunger” (Soul Pancake)
This is a video to show the reaction of children to hearing that 1 out of 5 kids go hungry in the United States. It also shows what the kids think would help combat this.


Silent Bodies: Japanese taciturnity and image thinking
Baird, Bruce. 2012. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh – Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Befu, Harumi. 2001. Hegemony of Homogeneity. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
Cage, John. 1973. "45' for a Speaker". In Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage. Hanover: Wesleyan.
Cavallero, Dani. 2013. Japanese Aesthetics and Anime, Jefferson. NC & London: McFarland & Company.
Deleuze, Gilles. 1997. Cinema 1- The Movement-Image. University of Minnesota Press.
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. MUGA: A Japanese Word You Should Know. http://boyelafayettedemente.blogspot.rs/2007/03/muga-moo-gah-japanese-word-you-should.html
Dosen, Ana. 2016. Bemusing the Audience: Probing the Narrative Diversions in Symbol. Ekphrasis 15 (1) : 75-85.
Došen, Ana. Viscerocepcija: (japansko) telo koje misli i umetnost. Art+Media 11 (to be published).
Hall, Edward T. 1976. Beyond Culture. New York: Anchor Books.
Hamera, Judith. 1990. Silence That Reflects: Buthoh, Ma, and a Crosscultural Gaze. Text and Performance Quarterly 10 (1): 53-60.
Isozaki, Arata and Ken Tadashi Oshima. 2009. Arata Isozaki. London: Phaidon Press.
Kindaichi, Haruhiko. 2010. The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.
Jackson II, Ronald L. And Michael A. Hogg (eds.). 2010. Encyclopedia of Identity. Vol.I, SAGE Publications.
Lambert, Leopold (ed.). 2013. The Funambulist Pamphlets: Spinoza. New York: Punctum Books.
Lebra, Takie S. 1987. The cultural significance of silence in Japanese communication. Multilingua 6-4: 345-357.
Marks, Laura U. 2000. The Skin of the Film. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Matarazzo J. D, H.F. Hess, G. Saslow. 1961. Frequency and duration characteristics of speech and silence behavior during interviews. Journal of Clinical Psychology 18 (4): 416-426.
Matsuki, Keiko. 1995. "Metaphors of anger in Japanese". In Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World, eds. John R. Taylor and Robert E. MacLaury, 137-152. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Maynard, Michael L. and Senko K. Maynard. 1994. 101 Japanese idioms: Understanding Japanese Language and Culture Through Popular Phrases. Lincolnwood, IL: Passport Books.
Maynard, Seneko K. 1997. Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
McDonald, Keiko I. 1994. Japanese Classical Theater in Films. London & Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2012. Phenomenology of Perception. London & NewYork: Routledge.
Miike, Yoshitaka. 2003. Japanese Enryo-Sasshi Communication and Psychology of Amae: Reconsideration and Reconceptualization. Keio Communication Review 25: 93-115.
Nishida, Kitaro. 1992. An Inquiry Into the Good. Yale Univesity Press.
Okabe, Ryoichi. 1983. "Cultural assumptions East and West: Japan and the United States". Intercultural communication theory: Current perspectives, ed. W. Gudykunst, 22-41. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Prasol, Alexander. 2010. Modern Japan: Origins of the Mind. Hackensack, NJ & London: World Scientific Publishing Co.
Richie, Donald. 1971. Japanese Cinema – Film Style and National Character. New York: Anchor Books.
———. 2005. Hundred Years Japanese Cinema. Tokyo: Kodansha.
———. 2007. A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics. Stone Bridge Press.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro (trans.). 2009. Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text. Motilal Banarsidass.
Takemitsu, Toru. 1995. Confronting Silence – Selected Writings, Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Tanen, Deborah and Muriel Saville-Troike (eds.). 1985. Perspectives on Silence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Tsujimura, Akira. 1987. "Some Characteristics of the Japanese Way of Communication." Communication Theory - Eastern and Western Perspectives. ed. D. Lawrence Kincaid, 115-126. San Diego: Academic Press, INC.
Yuasa, Yasuo. 2008. Overcoming Modernity – Synchonicity and Image-Thinking. New York: State University of New York Press.
Woronoff, Jon. 1990. Japan As Anything But Number One. Amornk, NY: M.E.Sharpe.
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Mrs. Owen’s Cook Book and Useful Household Hints
Original publication 1884
Amazingly, I sniffed it out…tucked in a little used drawer. But what a treasure it has turned out to be—not for the purpose of finding a sleep aid, but the contents of this book are incredible. Especially the section in the back one third of the book that offers everyday advice to young wives of the time, beginning with a letter of advice entitled, “From an Old Citizen to a Young Wife”.
The letter took up four single spaced pages, and when I got to the end, it was signed by—you guessed it. A man. Near the end he says: “You see, I mix medicine with meals; it cuts down on the doctor’s bills” and then, “Think how much longer your husband will live on first class food!”
I skimmed some of the other sections, but they were chock full of interesting items from Invalid Cookery and Dyes. In between is everything from lamp care, bed care, laundry, nursery, and remedies. (But no sleep remedies.) The book went on to talk about health care for the livestock, how to get rid of pests, and there was even a section with mathematical tables for the farmer who wished to build “roads, levees or turnpikes.”
So far, I've just scratched the surface of what this book has to offer in the way of historical research. It just doesn't get any better than holding a primary document with a broken spine and fluttering un-stitched pages in the palm of your hand.
For instance, a raw apple would take 1 hour 30 minutes to digest. Fried heart would take 4 hours and cooked spinach 2 hours and 30 minutes. At the end of the charts for the individual foods was a section marked INDIGESTIBLE FOODS. (Foods taking more than 4 to 5 ½ hours to digest.) (And eat these sparingly!)
Here are just a few of the items on that list: hard-boiled egg, melted butter, nuts, cheese, and new potatoes...
This is what threw me. I wouldn't have a clue about which foods I eat today are hard or easy to digest, so it made me wonder what science was applied to this process in the early 1880’s. How did they figure it out? Today we could probably use, ultra sound, MRI, chemical analysis… you name it. But back then? I’m not sure my mind even wants to go there.
The following section put my mind at ease. It was entitled, SEASONS FOR EATING DIFFERENT FOODS: (In the Northern and Middle States) This section reminded me of Barbara Kingsolver’s book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” on eating locally and seasonally. Although for the life of me, I don’t know where I’d find EELS from April to November!
All in all this was a great reference, and even though I didn't find the remedy I wanted, I found much more…a snapshot into life of the 1880’s. You may hear from me again on this book and topic. The section on how to destroy an ant colony, how to keep the cream from frothing, or the reading of all the hand written notes in the book by some unknown women with a beautiful script and the initials C M S are calling to me.


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Jonathan Rosen wrote a book that can’t really be described in a sentence and I’m not sure it really maps onto anything else I’ve read. It’s a memoir and a horror story and really, you just have to read it.
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions is about Rosen’s childhood best friend, Michael Laudor and what became of this once boy genius. The short story: Laudor goes from brilliant Yale undergrad, to well compensated yuppie, to an institutionalized schizophrenic adult, to celebrated and accommodated Yale Law student, to being the subject of a Ron Howard movie wherein he’s played by Brad Pitt, to, finally, the killer of his pregnant fiancé.
Just on the basis of that story alone, the book could be completely absorbing. But Rosen does something more with it all and we discuss so much of that in this podcast: His is a work that serves as a mirror for an era: Its ambitions, assumptions and tragic mistakes, all seen through the prism of one man’s journey.


toxicology in history
A delightful potion of chemical erudition, forgotten science history and ghastly murder schemes.... Reading The Elements of Murder is like watching a hundred episodes of CSI, but without having to sit through the tedious personal relationships of the characters.... Along the way the bodies pile up as Emsley relates spectacular case histories of poisonings, accidental and criminal.... Emsley mines what he calls 'the darker side of the periodic table' with consumate skill.
Dick Teresi, The New York Times Book Review
Molecules of murder: criminal molecules and classic murders, John Emsley (2008)
John Emsley has crafted this clever book about murder by poisoning with the intention of serving two audiences – those fascinated by crime and by science. He deals with each poison with a detailed description of its properties, and as such it sometimes reads like a chemistry textbook. However, this heaviness of scientific description is alleviated by the detail about the precise use of the poisons in real life.
Emsley says there are, thankfully, few poisons available to the assassins and murderers of the 21st century that are not fully understood. So perhaps the days of murder by poisoning are coming to a close.
Steve Conner, The Independent (read the full review here)
The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum D (2010)
Blum's extraordinary narrative alchemy fuses Gettler and Norris's painstaking, laborious undertakings with the birth of safety measures (the Food and Drug Administration wasn't much of one until the 1930s), the scandal surrounding workers' exposure to radium, and many other measures that bring home how volatile the transformation from prosperity to struggle really was. A few things get lost, like what debt both Norris and Gettler owed to colleagues in other cities and countries (Blum, to her credit, makes a note of this in supplementary material) or what clashes they had with law enforcement (though the ones with government are well-documented.) But these flaws don't diminish The Poisoner's Handbook's glorious depictions of the "coming-of-age party for forensic toxicology." The book is an unexpected yet appropriate open-sesame into a world that was planting seeds for the world -- with lethal toxins and cutting-edge tools -- that would later, darkly bloom.
Weinman S (2010) The Criminalist - Barnes and Noble Review
See also ..
forensic toxicology in history - selected references
- Mathieu Orfila's life (as a toxicologist in the 19th Century) - Chemistry, Medicine and Crime and on the detection of poisons (in the Lancet 1831; 16(398): 72-76) and book search results in Google Books; his story at NLM Visible Proofs exhibition
- Forensic chemistry in 19th Century Britain. Coley NG Endeavour 1998; 22(4): 143-147
- Francoise-Emanuel Fodere
- Sir Robert Christison (and his life story/ autobiography)
- Alfred Swaine Taylor, On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine (1875) and on Poisoning with strychnia (1856)
- The odour of (potassium) cyanide. Gwilt JR. The Medico-Legal Journal 1961; 29(2):98-99
- Paul Brouardel, Les asphyies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthesiques (1896)
- Ambroise Tardieu (Wikipedia) L'empoisonnement (1867)
- 50 Years of Forensic Science, Daeid NN (2010), Wiley-Blackwell - for a more recent 'historical review' of forensic science through the eyes of those writing in the Journal of the Forensic Science Society (buy it here)
arsenic in history - the Marsh test
The Marsh test equipment
Dr. Alfred Swaine Taylor (left) and a colleague, performing the Marsh test on samples taken from the body of John Parsons Cook.
The two were looking for traces of arsenic and antimony (1856). National Library of Medicine
- The Marsh test for arsenic (James Marsh) described in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1836; 21: 229-236
- arsenic at Wolfram Alpha and at Theodore Gray's photographic Periodic Table
Arsenic flametest (Wikimedia)
Trial of Madeleine Smith
Trial of the Seddons
Trial of William Palmer


Citing a patent might sound challenging, and you’re not alone if you’re unsure where to even begin. I’ve been there too, learning how to successfully navigate the intricacies of patent citations.
In this article, I’ll share my expert experience and guide you through the process on how to cite a patent effectively.
How to Cite a Patent
How you cite a patent is essentially determined by the format you will follow. You must choose the correct style guide to ensure you do not overlook any crucial data and information. When you start writing your citation, it is recommended you clarify this information with your instructor, editor, and publisher, if applicable.
The formats available to cite a patent in are:
The information and data you will need to successfully cite a patent includes:
- The name or names of the patent owners (inventors or employers)
- The patent or patent identifier
- The patent date (typically, when the patent was granted or the filing date of the application)
- Where the patent information was sourced
You may also need to indicate the stage of the patent (whether it’s pending or been granted). Moreover, the pattern of the patent number must adhere to the same pattern as seen in the original patent document (i.e., dashes, commas).
ACS (American Chemical Society)
The ACS style format is generally followed by those working on academic studies associated with chemistry. An ACS citation consists of two components:
- In-text displaying identifiable data or information within the patent text
- A source list, referencing a complete bibliography
ACS 3rd Edition Patent Citation Example
(Johnson US Patent 1,123,456 B2)
Johnson, J. W. US Patent 1,123,456 B2, [Year of Issue]
AMA (American Medical Association)
To cite a patent in an AMA style, you will need to include the following:
- The name of the inventor(s)
- The name of the assignee
- A description of the patent or title of patent (not in italics)
- The number assigned to the patent
- The date of the patent’s publication
AMA 11th Edition Patent Citation Example
Lever AB and George CD – names of the inventors
Method and Apparatus for Data Encryption – title of the patent
US Patent 0,123,456 – the patent number
September 1, 2020 – the publication date of the patent
APA (American Psychological Association)
Academic papers, including books and articles, use the APA format to cite patents. For the 7th edition (each style format has various editions) of APA citation, the following guidelines need to be met:
- The name of the inventor(s)
- The year the patent was issued
- The title of the patent (a description if no title is available – in italics)
- The patent number
- The issuing body title/name
- If applicable and available, the URL
APA 7th Edition Patent Citation Example
Thomas, D. J. (2017). Method and apparatus for data encryption (U.S. Patent No. 6,123,456). [URL]
To cite a patent following the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), you will need to include:
- The inventor(s) name(s)
- The title of the patent
- The number of the patent
- The year the patent application was filed
Chicago 17th Edition Patent Citation Example
Jones, P. D., and Cook, A. S. “Data Privacy System Using Cryptographic Techniques.” U.S. Patent 8,123,456, July 31, 2008.
CSE (The Council of Science Editors)
To cite a patent using the CSE style guide (for use with natural sciences, such as biology, chemistry, geology, and physics), you can report sources in two ways:
- The name/year format
- The citation/sequence format
Both formats require the following information:
- Name of author(s)
- Name of inventor(s)
- Name of patent holder and/or assignee
- The name /title of the patent
- The country that issued the patent, including the country code patent number (include commas)
- The patent’s publication date (Year/Month/Day)
CSE 8th Edition Patent Citation Example
Lawrence, JD, Doe, J.A. Secure Messaging System with End-to-End Encryption. US Patent 9,123,456. June 10, 2021.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
The IEEE citation style does not have editions in the same manner as others. Nevertheless, the following guidelines should be followed to cite a patent using the IEEE style format:
- Name(s) of inventor(s) with first name or initials and surname (periods and spaces for first and middle names)
- The patent’s title
- The US patent number (keep spacing; do not use commas)
- The patent’s publication date (Month, Day, Year)
IEEE Patent Citation Example
J. R. Smith and J. A. Doe, “Efficient Data Encryption Scheme for Network Communication,” U.S. Patent 2,123,456, December 30, 2019
MLA (The Modern Language Association)
If you wish to cite various materials and sources for scholarly text, the MLA style guide should be followed. Currently, there are no references to patents in the MLA handbook. However, the general guidelines are as follows:
- Inventor(s) name(s) – These are written in inverted order (surname followed by the first name in full, and finally the initial of the middle name, if applicable)
- The patent’s title/name
- The patent’s number
- The issuing agency
- The date the patent was issued (Day/Month/Year)
MLA Patent Citation Example
Doe, Jane K. US 1,234,567, Cryptographic Key Management Method for Data Security, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 10 August 2020
Why Is It Important to Cite Patents in Research Papers?
It is important to cite patents in research papers because it provides due credit for the inventors. As well as this, citing patents also provides a source to explore further information about the innovation, and establishes prior art.
How Do You Find the Patent Number and Other Patent Information?
You can find the patent number and other patent information on a patent document, issued by the USPTO. Another method is to research online patent databases that are provided by various patent offices.
Can You Cite Patents From Countries Other Than the United States?
You can cite patents from countries other than the United States. You just need to include the appropriate country code before inputting the patent number (i.e., EP for European patents), and follow the citation style guidelines for that country.
To cite patents, you must acknowledge the inventors and provide essential patent details. By following the citation guidelines set out above, you can cite all types of patents, whether they are utility patents or provisional patents when required.


A FAMILY HISTORY IN THE AUSTRALIAN WARS (By Gerard Thompson) Ever watched a major television show or documentary and realised that the people who are the feature of the story just happen to be your very own family? Well it happened to the Managing Editor of The Friendly Bay Islander, Gerard Thompson, recently. The documentary on SBS is called The Australian Wars and details the encounters that early settlers of Australia had with the existing Aboriginal communities of early Australia. As a child, I had been told by my mother, Esma Thompson (nee Geary) that there was an incident in the 1800s’ where a young family predecessor had survived an attack by Aborigines in the highlands of Tasmania. My mother said it was believed a servant girl had fallen over a small baby and that baby had survived the attack. Episode 2 of The Australian Wars, tells the actual story in full re-enacted detail. Patrick and Esther Gough were early settlers of the Oatlands district of Tasmania in the 1820’s It is an area known well by me as I spent many holidays of my childhood with my grandparents Robert and Evelyn Geary at Oatlands. I learned many life lessons there in that wonderful community. My grandfather, ‘Bob’ Geary, was the Oatlands bootmaker and his small shop and faded sign, still stands to this day about 200 metres from the northern end of the lovely Colonial town. In the 1820’s my great, great, great grandparents Patrick and Esther Gough were very early settlers of what was then one of the most productive areas in the known world. Around 25,000 settlers had sailed to Tasmania and were colonising fast, bringing about unsurprising clashes between the settlers and the aboriginal communities of that time. Skirmishes, until then, had been somewhat tit for tat, but it all changed on 9th of October 1828 at a place called Big Pond not far from the Oatlands of today. Geary is another name in our family, and it was a shock to discover that the attack started at the nearby Geary property with an Ann Geary being attacked by natives. (it is still not known if she is a direct relative as well) When Patrick Gough and his ‘servants’ went to the Geary property, the native force double-backed and attacked the Gough homestead, with eldest daughter Esther (the younger) escaping to reach her father for help. Patrick Gough found his wife Esther dead along with daughter Alicia and neighbour Ann Geary dying (she had made her way to their homestead). According to the SBS story, the attack was ‘different’ because it was the first time women and children had been targeted in the ever growing war between the Tasmanian aboriginals and the spreading white settlers. It apparently sent ’shock waves’ through the ever-growing migrant community. The SBS story goes on to other areas of the Tasmanian and Australian wars that raged for some years, resulting in almost complete devastation of the Tasmanian aboriginal race. The call today is for those wars and sacrifices by the Aboriginals of that time to be ‘recognised’ in some formal way. Eldest daughter Esther Gough (great great grandmother) went on to marry John McWade. Their daughter Maria McWade was my great grandmother, and Evelyn Geary (sic) my grand mother. My mother was Esma Thompson.
• A scene from The Australian Wars documentary and the Oatlands massacre.


Rebuilding the Elsir Vale
Red Hand Horde
The Red Hand Horde was an army of thousands of hobgoblins and goblins, allied with many giants, dragons, and other monsters. The Red Hand was led by High Wyrmlord Azarr Kul, a half-dragon hobgoblin who was a powerful priest of the evil dragon goddess Tiamat. Azarr Kul was able to enlist several powerful dragons to assist the Red Hand, which greatly contributed to the horde’s success.
The Red Hand Horde razed all the towns east of Brindol within Elsir Vale, and did significant damage to Brindol itself when it laid siege to the city. Thanks in large part to our heroes, the Battle of Brindol was the turning point in the war against the Red Hand Horde. It was then that Wyrmlord Hravek Kharn, field commander of the horde’s forces, and the red dragon Abithriax were slain by the heroes, disrupting and halting the Red Hand’s eastward progress through the vale.
Now, the Red Hand Horde is defeated and scattered. Most of the horde’s members were slain or driven back to the Wyrmsmoke Mountains, but there may still be survivors in Elsir Vale, forming small bands and attempting to rebuild their tribes.


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The Deronda Review is the continuation of The Neovictorian/ Cochlea, which was founded in 1996 to provide a venue for a kind of poetry which is often considered "old-fashioned.” The NV/C masthead bore the following explanation of the magazine’s dual name:
"Neovictorian" is a declaration of loyalty to a culture that offered poets an honorable place on the public stage, not only as singers but as thinkers who could help to sort out the complexities of modern knowledge and life. “Cochlea" is a declaration of loyalty to a poetry addressed first of all to the inner ear (in contradistinction to a certain current emphasis on "visual imagery"). The fact that this second name derives from anatomy rather than culture is meant as a reminder that all forms are grounded in the human form, and that all literary criteria are only approximations to something that must always be listened for without presuppositions.These commitments continue in The Deronda Review. The name change was prompted by a wish to express a connection which we have always felt, and which becomes more acute with each passing year -- the connection between the kind of Western culture we would like to see, and the survival of Israel.
On one level it is a personal connection. The founding editor spent the 80’s in Israel and has visited periodically since, each time with the feeling of entering a world separated from the outside by an event horizon. But the personal connection has always been underscored by a sense of history, by a feeling that the fate of the world in which we grew up is bound up with the fate of Israel (a thought first suggested to her by the work of Paul Celan). For the West, the founding of the Jewish state represented an opportunity to atone, to reclaim some part of its honor, which was lost when the Western nations carried out, or failed to prevent, the Holocaust. That loss of honor, that self-betrayal, is, we sense, at the heart of the modern and postmodern cultural malaise. The Holocaust stemmed, we believe, from a rebellion against the ethical which was part of the modernist reaction against Victorianism, and is part of various destructive trends in Western culture today.
This is a thesis that doubtless calls for tomes of explication and argumentation. And indeed, we hope to call forth discussion of it. But above all, we hope to return to the point where a different historical development seemed possible, from which it might yet be possible.
For us that point is symbolized by the fact that the quintessential Victorian writer, George Eliot (Marian Evans), concluded her career with a novel in which the hero discovers and affirms his Jewishness and returns to his ancestral land. Eliot was nothing if not a universalist. She seems to have had no definite religious creed. But her writings exemplify the sense of responsibility, the commitment to human betterment, which informed the best of Victorian culture. That sense and that commitment are at the heart of the Jewish tradition. And so it is no coincidence that after various novels that probed the human heart and surveyed the state of human society she came at last to the threshold of Judaism, of a culture that was deeply foreign to her world and yet somehow central to it.
Daniel Deronda was an immensely influential work. It is said to have inspired not only Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that was a significant step toward the establishment of the Jewish state, but also Eliezer Ben Yehudah, whose dictionary is credited with reviving Hebrew as a living language. To adopt this title is to express a hope of reinvoking some of the – social as well as artistic -- creative energy that Daniel Deronda incorporated and released.
For this to occur, two things, we believe, are necessary. First, poets must recover some of the spirit of Victorian idealism, that spirit which perhaps was best expressed by George Eliot herself in her poem “O May I Join the Choir Invisible.” We must have the courage to cast off the self-protective irony of modernism, to rebuild trust, to think of the word again as something to be given and kept. And second, there is need for a deeper understanding of Judaism, precisely in the light of universal concerns. In December 2006 Susannah Heschel wrote in a Newsweek article, “Nativity of the Jews”:
The nativity saga of the Jews […] is about all of us, and the work we must take on […] From our birth in Exodus, we learn that God did not simply call us into being, but continually has expectations of us. We were brought into being as a people with a collective conscience.The Exodus narrative (“let my people go”) has been incorporated into the consciousness of many peoples. The Sinai narrative – the confrontation with the Creator (or, if one prefers, with the destiny of humankind and the planet) and the acceptance of collective responsibility – has been less readily absorbed. Yet it must be absorbed; there is simply no sustainable alternative. And part of the process of absorbing it must be, as said, a deeper understanding of, a closer acquaintance with, the culture of those who have carried the Sinai narrative through the centuries and the millennia. As one example, on the “Kippat Binah” page of this website there is an essay on Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”), a central text of rabbinic Judaism which has, we believe, many lessons for all who wish to see a constructive poetics, a poetics of community, come into being.
The Deronda Review will, as said, continue the basic character of its predecessor. We seeks for poems of beauty and integrity that express a commitment to the subject matter, and that speak not only for the monadic self but for at least a potential community. We attempt to present the poetry we receive as a conversation about the world.
We welcome poetry in traditional forms, because these forms can be a source of strength; and we hope that this will remain one of the most diverse poetry magazines in existence. All kinds and degrees of outward formality, all levels of diction; love poems, nature poems, religious poems, social satire, "light" verse, even, at times, rhymes that verge on the much-decried "greeting-card verse" (shouldn’t every poem contain a greeting?) – all are welcome, provided this particular poem has pith and coherency. Poetic dialogues are especially sought for. The coherency of the magazine is a matter not of stylistic uniformity but of meaningful juxtaposition. Each issue is a composition meant to suggest the "macropoem," the play in which each of us has a part.
Unlike The Neovictorian/Cochlea, however, The Deronda Review will be open to prose. Prose contributions must be brief (up to 500 words) and must be of a reflective nature, and germane in some way to the "thesis for discussion" which we have proposed. We are also open to printing abstracts of longer pieces and posting the complete text on the website. We look forward to your contributions and responses. We will appreciate your help in spreading the word about this publication, which is intended as a bridge – between Israel and the West, between the present and at least the vision of a hopeful future.
Esther Cameron, Editor
Mindy Aber Barad, Co-editor for Israel


The following studies have been published as a result of this research project:
This paper was prepared for the panel ‘Analytical approaches to the economic and social history of Southeast Asia since the mid-19th century’ at Euroseas VII in Lisbon, 1-5 July 2013.
These papers were prepared for the 23rd Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia in Alor Star, Malaysia, 23-27 August 2014.
These papers were originally prepared for a workshop at a workshop at Leiden University on 16-17 December 2014. Final versions were presented at the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan, 3-7 August 2015.
These papers were presented at an international workshop on ‘Colonial Business in Indonesia: The impact of foreign investment on economy and society’ in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 12 August 2016.
This summary article was specially intended for this website. Relevant chapters also serve as introductions to the source and the data base.
These five articles appeared in a special issue of the Indonesian Historical magazine Lembaran Sejarah, titled 'Decolonization of Business in Indonesia', vol. 14, no. 1 (2018) pp. 5-97.'
An additional article in Dutch drawing on the database was published as:
‘Ver weg of ter plaatse? Bedrijfsleiders in het Nederlands-Indië van de jaren twintig’, in: Anita van Dissel, Maurits Ebben en Karwan Fatah-Black (eds), Reizen door het maritieme verleden van Nederland (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2015) 305-320.
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sarah says you can feel a person out by looking over the titles on someone's bookshelves. i agree wholeheartedly (and spy when i visit a home for the first time--whom of my friends shall i see? which new friends might i make?)
emily talks of the shadow these books make on our souls, and truly, i can feel the thumbprint of many characters, turns of phrases, and book covers in my heart.
i've been reading as long as i can remember: ravenously, i learned about washing your hair, rinsing, and repeating, or the ingredients in toothpaste tubes, every game of cross-worded cereal boxes. i don't remember a time without the power of words in me. shy school-girl who found solace in books and played out her favorite stories when not reading them. books have been the grid of my life, and it's hard to narrow down to just a few, but here are 10 pieces of literature that changed, shaped, or defined me at some point.
i was in 8th grade with Ms Shipley, and she read to us for the last 15 minutes of every class. i could not wait for the story, was devastated when the book was over, and immediately immersed in the new book before she'd gotten far at all. and then she read The Little Prince by Antoine de St.-Exupery, and i cried inside when it was over. i can't think of any book previous to this experience which moved inside of me so much a whole new universe had unlocked itself. the whimsy, the adult-child-understanding, everything about this book makes it a top-tenner every list. i still cry when i put this book down, its words memorized, certain images forever implanted in my mind.
the next several books all came to me in my college years, and they've been a part of me since. i met my first real, christan girlfriend who sharpened me and loved on me and gave me A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken. This is a lovestory with two dimensions; the first between a man and a woman, and the second about falling in love with the Savior. there is romance, heartbreak,love as service, and the everlasting Story of redemption and mercy. (this book also gave me my first glance into apologetics because of the letter exchange between van and c.s. lewis.)
in the same year my bible study leader grinned wildly while i timidly asked, "i know i'm a christian, and i believe that i am saved, but what does grace mean?" that was my year of grace, and she gifted me with her tattered and well-loved copy of The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. i think i truly became a believer at its close, and have worn ragamuffin's name ever since.
when i had to read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving for homework, i simply marveled at my english lit major that allowed me to laugh and cry and simply read beautiful words over and over. but with each re-reading of this poignant novel i am more appreciative of the complexity of irving's world and use of language. i read this in a class discussing christ-types, and owen is that but much, much more.
i could list each of c.s. lewis's works here, as i took an entire philosophy course on him, but i will share my most-most favorite and sadly under-read novel by the famed author. Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the cupid and psyche myth as a pagan story about sacred love. in this haunting book i see myself everywhere, from the main character's fist-shaking at the gods/God to the love between sisters and mentors. if i were locked away on a deserted island, this would be the only book i'd take.
i'm a fiction girl through and through, but the memoir by dave eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a story of tragedy told in a cheeky manner full of self-deprecation and irreverence, while at the same time uplifting Good and making the urbane heroic. egger's parents die within 32 days of each other and he and his older siblings care for and raise their youngest sibling, and so it is a story of love and childhood as much as it is about the larger world around them dealing with the largest issues we all face. speaking of cheeky: i'm going to be sly and tell you to read They Shall Know our Velocity and What is the What, also by dave eggers. the first is incredibly fast paced (spend a vast amount of money on other people in a short amount of time) and the second is incredibly deep (a narration of a Lost Boy of Sudan and his struggles and victories both in africa and the US.)
Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz is a lot like Harry Potter was for me--everyone was reading it/them, so i refused to be, you know, trendy. and then i read anyway. blue like jazz opened up this part of me that i had been afraid to express, namely that my faith could ask questions both of myself and of my God, as well as the Church, and that i could be richer for the inquiry. i read blue like jazz and mourned the loss of spirtual community that i'd had in my college years and also made me eager for more like-minded comrades-in-arms. the book itself is so richly written that i found myself reading passages aloud when simply underlining them wasn't enough.
not exactly a book, but i'd be remiss if i neglected to mention the work of e.e. cummings. the fact that i don't have excerpts of his poetry tattooed all over my body is smply a matter of time. :) i have long since eschewed capitalizing in my own writng, but he gives me much more than grammatcal freedom; i yearn and ache at the beauty in his love poetry and stylized language.
if you don't enjoy reading plays, then this one won't be for you, but Translations by Brian Friel was magical for me. encompassing my love of all things irish, love stories, and whimsical use of language, translations also explores the effects of colonization (in geography, society, and yes, language). i'm still to this day haunted by reading the lover's exchange of their feelings, both written in english but presented as with a language barrier--one speaks gaelic and one speaks english, but feelings speak themselves out-loud anyway. truly, truly magical.
for my last choice, i couldn't choose between two contemporary novels, so i offer The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. The former is from a dog's perspective and is simultaneous outlandishly fun and humorous to thought-provokingly deep and tragic. i loved the reading of every single page of this book. and no title has ever been more evocative of the treasure inside than elegance. i think truly, it is one of the most elegantly written novels i've read. it tells the story of a concierge, a 12 year old girl, and a japanese gentleman, whose lives intertwine to tell a story so rich you savor every surprise and indulge in the incredibly intelligent writing.
enjoy this little glimpse at the books on the shelves of my heart and indeed my home. i'll read these again and again! have you read any of these? would you recommend anything else?


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Valentia is a privileged young woman from a wealthy farming family in 19th century Ohio. Her grandmother had been a storyteller, weaving tales of romance and adventure from her native Ireland, and told her granddaughter of a special family heirloom – a brooch that had been left behind with her family. Valentia decides that she must find her grandmother’s long-lost family, as well as the brooch. She has disturbing dreams featuring the brooch and sees strange lights whenever she looks at the drawing.
As she travels with her brother (Conor), his valet (Brendan) and her ladies’ maid (Maggie) through Pittsburgh and New York, Valentia’s eyes take in the wide world.
In Ireland, crippled by chronic illness, she learns about the Irish famine from some local activists. She becomes intrigued with the movement, and vows to help in what ways she can. She befriends Siobhan and Aiden, siblings. Siobhan shows her a stone circle, and she has a mystical experience.
When she has recovered, she travels north to Donegal. When she finally does find the town her grandmother came from, she is confronted with an imperious great-aunt (Eithne) and a rather bumbling cousin who falls in love with her.
The cousin (Donal) starts to court her, and after some time, Donal proposes to her, but she turns him down, determined to finish her quest first. The parting upsets them both.
Chasing rumors of her other great-aunt (Esme), she travels south. Valentia finally finds Esme in Kenmare, and the brooch, which has hidden powers
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Diana Gabaldon – Diana weaves very rich and complex situations and peoples them with three-dimensional characters that come to life. The bad guys have virtues and the good guys have flaws. People fart in bed, but they also heroically charge the enemy in battle. Her level of detail amazes and fascinates me.
Sharon Kay Penman – the historical detail and research Penman puts into her novels is wonderful. I enjoy the political intrigues and peccadillos of historical figures, and they come to life under her pen.
Robert Heinlein – While Heinlein is pretty good at writing autobiographical characters (can we say Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw, anyone?) he was also good at preaching his personal beliefs without it seeming like preaching. I couldn’t get into Frank Herbert’s books for that reason. Heinlein is great at putting humor in his characters, though was not as good at giving his heroes flaws. Most of his heroes were damn near perfect.
Anne McCaffrey – McCaffrey was my first author love. Her Dragonriders of Pern books got me through my awkward and shy teenage years, and for years (perhaps even now!) I dream of finding a dragon egg and flying away to escape my tormentors. She was excellent at building worlds in which I wanted to live.
Morgan Llewellyn – Historical fantasy at its most accessible. Llewellyn kindled my love for the ancient Celts and the various parts of history she addressed. Her ability to bring quasi-mythical, quasi-historical people to life was seemingly effortless. She’s the main reason I took to historical fantasy in my novels.
Bernard Cornwell – I first came across Cornwell because of Sean Bean in the Sharpe’s Rifles television series, and had to read the books. They are incredibly well written about the details of warfare and the privations of the common soldier. It was fascinating to me, despite the fact that Napoleonic wars were not my favorite time period. Nevertheless, I moved on to other books he’d written, such as the Saxon Chronicles. He also inspired me to read other Napoleonic series, such as Horatio Hornblower, Master & Commander, and Temeraire.
Edward Rutherfurd – What a wonderful concept he does – he takes a place, such as London or New York, and writes about people there throughout the ages. For instance, the pre-historic people of the London area are in the first chapters, followed by their descendants several generations later, following the family line up to the present day. Most of his books use this formula, and it makes for a fascinating comparison of the different ages in a particular spot.
Maeve Binchy – Binchy is probably my most ‘vanilla’ author, but her everyday scenes and portrayals of Irish folk is fascinating to me, as I have an eternal love of all things Irish. There is no fantasy or magic, no particular attachment to historical events, just stories of people in Irish towns and cities. And good stories.
Jim Butcher – I’m a bit late to the party on Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books – I’ve been devouring them all year. It’s a guilty pleasure, as I normally don’t like what’s ‘popular’, but a modern day Chicago wizard detective that hits all the Noir stereotypes and laughs at them? What’s not to like? The modern references are gold, something I miss from my historical addiction. He can reference Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter all in one sentence, and it makes me laugh.
Mercedes Lackey – I’ve been a fan of Lackey’s pure fantasy world for decades, starting with her Valdemar books. She has an innate ability to weave a believable fantasy realm, complete with societal conflicts, wars and cultures, almost on the same level as Tolkein.
My name is Christy Nicholas, also known as Green Dragon. I do many things, including digital art, beaded jewelry, writing and photography. In real life I'm a CPA, but having grown up with art and around me (my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are/were all artists), it sort of infected me, as it were. I love to draw and to create things. It's more of an obsession than a hobby. I like looking up into the sky and seeing a beautiful sunset, or a fragrant blossom, a dramatic seaside. I then wish to take a picture or create a piece of jewelry to share this serenity, this joy, this beauty with others. Sometimes this sharing requires explanation – and thus I write. Combine this love of beauty with a bit of financial sense and you get an art business. I do local art and craft shows, as well as sending my art to various science fiction conventions throughout the country and abroad.
I live in Warfordsburg, PA with my husband, Jason, my cat, Spot, my dog, Dax, and two sugar gliders named Arya and Sansa.


For many comics creators around Brisbane, Nat Karmichael is a bit like Uatu the Watcher. His passion is as a publisher is promoting and preserving Australian comics. We chatted about what his role means for local indie comics creators and the future of the comics medium...
Well, it isn’t singular. The older I get, the more I seem to be taking on more than one project at a time!
The first book is a biography of a bushranger (Bold Ben Hall). It’s a compilation of the Sunday newspaper adventure strip that ran in the Brisbane Sunday Sun (and other Australian newspapers) between 1977 and 1985. It was drawn by an artist from the Golden Age of Australian comics, Monty Wedd. It’s due to arrive from the printer any day.
One of the things I like about webcomics, is that they are not beholden to any shape or format. Sunday comic strips (more so the syndicated American ones) had a specific format that they had to adhere to, so they could be cut and adjusted to fit within a two or a three (and even one) tier space. Calvin and Hobbes was the first to really break that formula, with the result being a freedom of artistic expression not seen in the medium since its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s when whole pages were devoted to single titles.
I suppose the week-in week-out discipline of working at ones’ creation to a deadline – for years on end – is the thing that the Sunday strips of old could teach the creators of the newer webcomics. I suppose that is why I am so enamoured by the older conventional Sunday comic strip. I can’t imagine anyone today being able to work on a single comic strip like Monty Wedd did in Bold Ben Hall, for instance, to tell one story week-in, week-out - for seven and a half years!
The other side of the coin is that there is less censorship in the newer comics, and that can lead to pleasing results unfettered by editorial interference.
The second book is Truth, Justice, and the American Dream: The Men Behind Superman. This brand-new graphic novel tells the tale of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster - two young friends who had a dream, the era they lived in (that is, the 1930s), the advent of the big comic book publishers, and how they created what became the most recognisable cultural icon of last century - Superman.
The book is written by Julian Voloj and is illustrated by Thomas Campi and is very much in the tradition of the bandes dessinee (graphic novels) of European comics. Although Julian lives in New York and Thomas in Sydney, they both have European backgrounds, so it is only natural that the form of their story follows those traditions.
It is Thomas’ first book in English, which was the reason I snapped up the rights to it. I was the first English-language publisher to pick up the rights to the work.
To have done it in the “bombastic American style” would have detracted from the serious message that the creators were trying to convey. Besides, the creators are from a European background, so they really were working to their own strengths and in a form that was familiar to them. It works better as a result.
The other book right now is also non-fiction. It’s called From ‘Sunbeams’ to Sunset: The Rise and the Fall of the Australian Comic Book (1924 to 1965). It’s a history of the local (Australian) original comic book industry.
Of all the books I have published or ever will publish, this will be the one that will stand the test of time
Graeme Cliffe and I knew each other in the local comic scene in the early 1980s, when he was one of the forces behind a local publication called Spectrum. But it wasn’t until after he asked me if I was interested in helping him publish his 20 years of research, that I realised the enormity and scope of his work.
This will be the seminal work on the topic, even eclipsing Panel by Panel, the other book on the history of Australian comics and comic strips that was written by John Ryan in 1979. Graeme doesn’t see it like that - he sees it as complimenting John’s book. And to a degree that is true, Graeme’s book does not cover comic strips, but I do believe that there is nothing like this. I am really excited about this book!
I can only speak for me. In a sense I work all three roles.
In an editorial sense, I try not to be too critical of material I carry, and rarely ask for changes. But if I do, a lot of the time it’s in the form of making suggestions to the creators or writers and pointing out where things might work better (from a reader’s perspective). Changes must be slanted to maximising the readers’ experience, because at the end of the day it is the readers that count.
For example, The Men Behind Superman carried a lot of American spelling (such as “Mom” and “color”). Something like that would be picked up by a local reader, and all of a sudden, the reader would feel they are reading an American work. If the work contained lettering that was unclear or inconsistent, then these get changed as well – with the permission of the copyright holder, of course.
When it comes to Australian comic strip or comic book art that has previously been published - like the works of Monty Wedd, John Dixon, or any of the older Australian creators - I simply won’t touch it. These are historical reprints that should not be edited and changed.
I am ruthless in what I will publish in books now
My publishing role is simple: What works out there deserve preservation for future Australian comic readers? A secondary consideration is the commercial aspect of the work. I am ruthless in what I will publish in books now. It must be Australian or have some aspect that is Australian. And it must be something that has a historical significance of some sort. A lot of the old newspaper strips (and some comic books from the 1940s and 1950s) have rarely been seen outside of their original vehicle.
How early do I come on board? Probably very early. If I see a property I like, I tend to approach the owner of the work and express my interest in working with them.
I suppose the only problem with this approach, is that the owner can be frustrated at having to wait until I feel I am ready to work with them. This can be years later. But there are varying reasons for those delays. Sometimes it is due to my other work commitments, sometimes - and this seems to have been the case in the past three years - family or life dramas seem to take centre stage. I would like to think that this does not damage my relationship with the people I like working with, but I can understand some might feel frustrated and impatient with me as a result.
I don’t think there is any commonality to all projects; which is why there is a great deal of satisfaction when they finally become a physical entity.
My inclination when spotting people’s work is to comment on the aspect that attracted me to the work in the first place. I’ll just tell the artist that.
I’ll talk to them about certain aspects of what their future goals are, what motivates them to work on this character. I’ll really allow them to talk to me, rather than my directing the conversation, because I want to know them and what motivates them. But you will know I like your work if I stay longer and converse with you. (Eep! My secret’s out!)
Some people’s raw artwork (that is, pencils) are more powerful than the end product. They have a grand style, but are unable to translate that into storytelling, or they are too heavy on the inking, or something. Some people have a grand vision (or many), but don’t have the tenacity to finish it. That can be disappointing. There are a couple of artists that I have given an advance to, to allow them to work on projects, that remain unfinished for various reasons.
There is no one answer to your question, because each artist is different, and I tend to approach them all in different ways, depending on their responses to my questioning. Some artists are shy, for example, and work in a private space and are unsure about sharing their work. Some have confidence in their work, after working on their craft for many years. Most improve over time, if they keep practising their craft.
First of all, if you approach, be prepared to be rejected and don’t be too disappointed if that happens. Don’t take it personally. It doesn’t mean you are a bad person or your work is awful. There are many reasons why a publisher may not like your work. It might be that they have too many projects and cannot fit you into their scheduling.
A good publisher will discuss with you where your strengths are and what you need to improve. Be prepared to listen, but also be prepared to reject the advice. Be confident in bringing your best work forward, and if you are rejected, move on.
The hallmarks of a publisher-ready creator is difficult to quantify. For me, it’s someone with a clear vision of their project, who shows an individual style. I am not readily enamoured, for example, of someone whose art style is similar to the latest or most popular Marvel or DC books. It’s the artwork that initially captures my eye, but then it’s the process of being able to tell a story in an entertaining manner. I’ll also have half a mind on what I feel might be commercially viable.
I would encourage anyone who thinks they are ready for the big time to talk to a seasoned professional who can be open and candid about the pressure of the industry.
It’s clear if an artist can tell a story in five pages by his sequential work
A five-page story from a creator with an emphasis on artistic storytelling is useful, because it’s clear if an artist can tell a story in five pages by his sequential work. That is, can you ‘read’ the story without the words?
Locally, Paul Mason is the master in this regard. I went to a comic book meet-up in Brisbane a couple of months ago, and he showed us his Kid Phantom work prior to the lettering being added. You could tell he was relating a story. Kirby could do it. Ditko, too.
It’s a little more difficult to assess a writer within the same page constraints. A writer has to bring characterisation to those in the story, or motivation as to why they may do something; and these are a little more difficult to assess within five pages. Stan Lee gets a lot of bad press, but I do feel he was able to do that well; and one of the reasons why the Marvel Age of comics took off. His written collaboration with his artistic staff (even if they were plotting the stories) was first-rate.
There are many creatives who start out thinking they’re so talented that they can make the “big time”. However, it’s not the glory of the Supernova comic festivals (or the like) that will sustain you. It’s a lot of hard work, leaning over one’s art for hours on end, day-in day-out, and maintaining a high output for a long period that will ensure you reach the “big time”.
I learnt first-hand through Oi Oi OI! that, although people still want to read comics, the days of people discovering comics through the newsagents are dwindling. Speciality comic retailers are also going to be problematic in the future.
Events like Free Comic Book Day are a good idea - they enable people to go to the physical stores and see what is on offer. But these people must also come back during the year for the comic book stores to survive.
My approach has been to begin to focus on books, and having my comic-related products being placed in bookstores... But I don’t want to focus on retail book environments either. Where do people go these days? Libraries are an increasing source of traffic, for example. These are areas that I plan to explore with these books of mine that are soon to be released onto the market.
I wonder if the appeal of the floppy monthly comic – while still a staple in the American medium – is waning?
With bookstores and libraries being more willing to carry graphic novels, I tend to agree with Bob Layton that this could be one way forward for the medium; and it’s certainly one I am more willing to explore at this time as a publisher.
There will be newer avenues that will open up. Expressing entertaining stories in an affordable manner will always be at the heart of comics, just as punk rock’s DIY ethic propelled the music industry in the late 1970s. Whether this is going to be in zines, or in floppies, there will always those who want to push the medium’s boundaries. Even though I do not explore or seek out webcomics in any great way, I am excited about the prospects of the digital and interactive mediums.
I think my marketing is rather too ad hoc. I am so intent on getting the books produced, that I don’t really start marketing until the books are ready to be distributed or placed into the marketplace.
Comics are changing, there is no doubt. We need to find a way to engage the people who have lost contact or who have never been exposed to the medium. I believe that there is a growing subsection of our community who are discovering graphic novels or who are reading comics in book form, rather than the floppies of years gone by. I want to explore this format more. So my days of publishing comics are going to be limited, even though I want to see the medium continue.
I am not really keen on digital comics, although I can see their appeal. I like to feel, to smell a comic. (Is that weird?)
It’s an exciting time to be wanting to produce good comics and to be in control of your own destiny, if you are a creative talent
There are likely to be more interactive comics in the future, and if I had more time, I would like to explore this further. That is where I see comics going. People like Stu Campbell are doing some amazing things. Somehow, I feel comics will follow music’s trends, and the artist will connect directly with the audience, and there may be no need for intermediaries like publishers or comic book stores. This is for someone else to explore, as my time in the medium is going to be short (given my age).
Already there are other avenues opening up. Crowdfunding is a new platform that allows people to self-fund their own projects; and these are becoming more popular. Patreon sites, where an artist connects with a fan base is another means of raising capital to fund projects. It’s an exciting time to be wanting to produce good comics and to be in control of your own destiny, if you are a creative talent.
I really don’t think the medium will die: people will always want to read well-written and well-illustrated stories...
Music is, for me, an interactive experience. I have to sit and listen to it. The last five albums I listened to were:
Sweet Old World - Lucinda WIlliams (Today it’s the 25th Anniversary version... although I prefer the earlier version)
Forty Licks - Rolling Stones
Henry’s Dream - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Thanks so much for your time and energy, Nat. I can't wait to see your books - especially Truth, Justice, and the American Dream - hit the shelves in the coming months. Folks, you can keep in touch with Nat's projects over at Comicoz.


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True to its name, Snow White’s Scary Adventures focuses on the perils of Snow White’s fairytale journey. The ride includes dark, spooky scenes that may be frightening for young children—including dungeons, skeletons, haunted trees, unexpected transformations, and a menacing evil Queen.
In this fun episode of the Obscure Disney Podcast, we are discussing, the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This 81-year-old classic was Walt Disneys first full-length movie and yet, one among us has yet to see it. Tune in for our quick recap.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film’s individual sequences.
Snow White premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938. It was a critical and commercial success, and with international earnings of $8 million during its initial release briefly assumed the record of the highest-grossing sound film at the time. The popularity of the film has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, it is one of the top-ten performers at the North American box office.
At the 11th Academy Awards, producer Walt Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar, and the film was nominated for Best Musical Score the year before. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. Disney’s take on the fairy tale has had a significant cultural impact, resulting in popular theme park attractions, a video game, and a Broadway musical.


In this kid’s book, published sometime between 1901-1909, you will find a story about three kittens and their adventures. On their trip, they visit Miss Tabby Purr, go to a concert, and later roam on a farm where they get into some trouble. Below are features of this book.
• The story and all illustrations are the work of Louis Wain
• Only minor changes have been made, All the pictures and the story are original to the book when it was first published
• Printed on premium paper with vibrant colors
• It contains three large full-color illustrations
• Every page of the story has cat illustrations colored in different shades of turquoise
Louis Wain Memorabilia™ is excited to offer this rare and hard to find kid’s book. In our reproduction of it, we have used high-quality scans of the original and cleaned it up for your entertainment and satisfaction.
This book is a purrfect gift for any Louis Wain collector and for children who love nursery rhymes or cats!


Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User Lovable Menu Of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles, And Fancy is an obscure book published in 1984. I found about it after learning that the popular Steve Wozniak article titled "Homebrew and How the Apple Came to Be" belonged to a compilation of short articles.
I'm amazed that this book isn't more cherished by the retrocomputing community, as it provides an incredible insight into the state of computers in 1984. We've all read books about their history, but Digital Deli provides a unique approach: it's written in present tense.
Articles are written with a candid and inspiring narrative. Micro computers were new back then, and the authors could only speculate about how they might change the world in the future.
The book is adequately structured in sections which cover topics from the origins of computing, Silicon Valley startups, and reviews of specific systems. But the most interesting part for me are not the tech articles, but rather the sociological essays.
There are texts on how families welcome computers to the home, the applications of artificial intelligence, micros on Wall Street and computers on the classroom.
Besides Woz explaining how Apple was founded, don't miss out on Paul Lutus describing how he programmed AppleWriter in a cabin in the woods, Les Solomon envisioning the "magic box" of computing, Ted Nelson on information exchange and his Project Xanadu, Nolan Bushnell on video games, Bill Gates on software usability, the origins of the Internet... the list goes on and on.
If you love vintage computing you will find a fresh perspective, and if you were alive during the late 70s and early 80s you will feel a big nostalgia hit. In any case, do yourself a favor, grab a copy of this book, and keep it as a manifesto of the greatest revolution in computer history.


Book Fox Chit-Chat with Author Josalyn McAllister
Josalyn McAllister’s first book, Love Over Easy, has tickled and delighted its readers so far. Just look at some of the reviews:
“I enjoyed and devoured this sweet and beautifully written love story!”
“Such a fun read. Just don’t plan on starting it at 10 pm like I did… I couldn’t put it down so I stayed up way too late so I could finish!”
“I love the humor, the characters, the setting… one of my new favorite books. Thanks for helping me get back into reading.”
So, we wanted to sit down with the author and pull back the curtains a bit and see what inspired the book and what we can expect to see next.
Q: What inspired you to write Love Over Easy?
A: When my husband was in grad school at the University of Iowa, he got a summer internship in Orlando, Florida. It was a long, two-day drive with two toddlers in the back seat. To entertain ourselves we started brainstorming what would be the most cliche romantic comedy plot of all time. We laughed a lot and really had a good time with it. I tried to write that book for NaNoWriMo that year, but it didn’t go very well. After a few drafts, it morphed into Love Over Easy.
Q: Did you always know you wanted to be a writer?
A: I have wanted to be a writer since I was in 2nd grade. I read voraciously and the idea of contributing something to the library sounded like the most important thing I could do. I started out scribbling really corny descriptions of beautiful and perfect girls, but didn’t really get around to writing plot lines for them. When I was in 6th grade my teacher really praised my writing and told me that she believed I would be published one day. It was very encouraging. When I got a little older I wrote really embarrassing Newsies fan fiction with my friends. It wasn’t until after I had my first baby that I sat down and wrote my first novel, which was really bad.
Q: What do you love in a good book?
A: For a book to be really great, I feel that it needs to be compelling and thought-provoking. Compelling so that I can’t put it down and thought-provoking meaning that I think about it when I’m not reading it and will remember it for years after I’ve read it. I like quirky character combinations with good chemistry. I like a good plot twist or two, a book that is a puzzle. I also really like beautiful writing and themes. I have a pretty eclectic taste. I don’t discriminate against the genre.
Q: Do you have some favorite reads from this past year?
A: I loved My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. I’ve described that one as Anne of Green Gables but the protagonist is an English boy who lives on a Grecian island. It has a similar feel. I also really liked Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull which is a business book about Pixar. It was fascinating. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance was a great, self-aware memoir. I also liked Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and Beartown by Fredrik Backman.
Q: What do you do when you’re not at the keyboard?
A: My husband teases me that I could be really successful if I just picked one interest and focused on that. Reading, of course, is a big one. I like to bake and cook and am interested in nutrition. I love to run, especially now that the weather is cooling off. I like to do strength training as well. My husband and I love board games and have an extensive collection. I also enjoy sewing for my kids, particularly Halloween costumes. Along those lines, I absolutely love holidays and throwing parties, as well.
Q: Which character do you connect with the most in Love Over Easy?
A: I identify with MaryAnne. She loves her people and wants to make everything shiny and good for them, even if it is actually to their detriment. Maybe that’s TMI about me. lol. My best friend thinks that I’m Pedro.
Q: Does Violet take after you at all?
A: Not really, I’ve never been the kind of person that doesn’t know what they want out of life, which is Violet’s MO. We do share some hobbies – food and running.
Q: What can we expect next from you?
A: I’m currently working on a cozy mystery series set in the North Georgia mountains. The first book will come out at the beginning of 2021. The protagonist has the ability to see people’s emotions as colors surrounding them, which should aid her in her sleuthing but generally causes more confusion than clarity.
If you haven’t already, go pick up a copy of Love Over Easy, and to keep in touch with Josalyn and get updates on new books, join her reading group.


Back to the Roots: The Unfinished Post–Cold War Settlement of 1990 – Historical Narrative Workshops in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Christian Nünlist, Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich, and Juhana Aunesluoma, Network for European Studies at the University of Helsinki
This project aimed to discuss the results of the 2017 OSCE Network project titled “The Road to the Charter of Paris: Divergent Narratives and Lessons for the OSCE Today” in Russia. The cooperating institutions in Russia were St. Petersburg State University and the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow. Download publication in Russian.
- Workshop “The Road to the Charter of Paris: Historical Narratives and Lessons for the OSCE Today,” Moscow, 8 November
- Seminar “Origins of a Cold Peace between Russia and the West: The Unfinished Cold War Settlement, 1989–2008,” a seminar with about 80 students at St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, 7 November