Writing a book can be a daunting task. But writing more than 140? That would seem to redefine the term prolific. Yet that’s how many titles James Patterson has produced, either as a solo writer or co-author, with more than 115 of them becoming New York Times best sellers.
“I have a massive imagination,” says Patterson with a chuckle, his works including thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and young teen books.
The 72-year-old New York native who lives now in Florida is hardly done yet. He has more than a half-dozen books coming out just at the start of 2019, including his latest venture into golf fiction. Miracle at St. Andrews hits stores April 8 and is the third in the series of “Miracle at …” books co-authored by Peter De Jonge. It continues the journey of Travis McKinley, a former advertising writer turned pro golfer, as he struggles to find his way when he loses his senior tour card.
We interviewed Patterson for the latest edition of the Golf Digest podcast and quickly learned why delving into golf fiction was a no-brainer. It turns out Patterson, a former ad writer himself at J. Walter Thompson, plays four to five rounds a week when he’s home, is a 13 handicap and has made six holes in one in his life (to the consternation of his wife, Sue, who only has four.)
In the interview, Patterson explains that he likes to play early in the morning, getting in a quick nine or 18, before returning home and getting back to writing. He discusses what he likes about writing about golf compared to other genres. He also offers some interesting stories about his early years with the game, including a memorable time he helped caddie for Tommy Bolt and saw his well-publicized anger play out, as well as his adventures playing with three different U.S. presidents.
In addition to our discussion with Patterson, Alex Myers, Sam Weinman, Keely Levins and I discuss Paul Casey’s win at the Valspar, America’s new top-ranked women’s golfer and what we expect this week at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Please have a listen:
Miracle at St. Andrews, Little Brown and Company, Hardcover, $26


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** The warm reception given to Martin’s book In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists, published in hardback by Manchester University Press in July 2021, is documented under JANUARY 2022. Add now:
While covering a wide array of people and topics, the essays display a remarkably organic quality, seemingly growing out of one another. Smith’s erudition and commitment to scholarly rigour are everywhere in evidence. … [He] both instructs and inspires.
Meticulous exploration and documentation … consistently persuasive … a delight from beginning to end.
** Martin’s next “modern” book, That Brilliant Beautiful Woman: The Genius
and Tragedy of the Artist Helen Fry, was delivered to a publisher in September
2022. A summary is provided below under JULY 2022 (“Next book – a story of
genius, beauty, and tragedy”).
Martin has been appointed a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Turkish journal of philosophy Arkhe-Logos.
Top-twenty article relevant to the Covid-19 pandemic
“Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World”, Antigone [online classical journal], January 2022. Illustrated.
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers could not offer vaccines or effective medicines to combat plagues and pestilences, but they did offer moral advice to those caught up in such events, and they were concerned to combat the plagues of false opinions that blight the lives and happiness of so many. Their advice is as relevant today as it was in antiquity.
READ HERE: https://antigonejournal.com/2022/01/pandemic-philosophy/
This is one of the twenty most-read articles in Antigone, having attracted about 13,000 readers in six months.
New article on Diogenes of Oinoanda
“Diogenes of Oinoanda: News and Notes XIV (2019-2021)”, Cronache Ercolanesi 52 (2022) 383-399. One illustration. A survey of recent work, including details of activities and a
critical review of over fifty relevant publications. There is also a tribute to the late Jim Coulton.
NEW! READ HERE: http://www.martinfergusonsmith.com/pdf/CRONACHE.pdf
(The article is made available here by kind permission of the editors of Cronache Ercolanesi,)
Forthcoming publication on Diogenes of Oinoanda
“Die epikureische Inschrift des Diogenes von Oinoanda”, in M. Bachmann (†), J. Hammerstaedt, E Laufer (eds),
Oinoanda: Ergebnisse der Surveys 2007-2015: Bauforschung, Archäologie, Epigraphik. Expected in 2022/2023 in the “Istanbuler Forschungen” series, published by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul.
Illustrated. Co-author with Jürgen Hammerstaedt.
An exposition and discussion of Diogenes of Oinoanda, with particular reference to new discoveries made during the German-led survey of Oinoanda in 2007-2015.
Colloquium on Diogenes of Oinoanda in Muğla
On 10-11 June 2022 a colloquium on Diogenes of Oinoanda, organised by Prof. Dr. H. Nur Beyaz Erkızan, was held at Muğla Sıtkı Köçman Üniversitesi. Muğla is the capital of the Turkish province in which Oinoanda is located. The papers were given by Turkish scholars in Turkish. The colloquium was dedicated to Martin, and a translation of his opening address, on “The Importance of Diogenes of Oinoanda”, was read in his absence.
DIOGENES OF OINOANDA COLLOQUIUM, MUĞLA, JUNE 2022
AUDITORIUM DURING MARTIN’S ADDRESS
Photo: ©Levent Erkızan
The holding of the colloquium is testimony to a very welcome growing interest in Diogenes of Oinoanda among Turkish scholars. It is planned to publish the papers with summaries in English.
Most recent book – much in demand!
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists, published in July 2021, sold out in early February 2022 and had to be hastily reprinted. For full details, including reviews, and an order form, see below under JANUARY 2022 AND JULY 2021.
Next book – a story of genius, beauty, and tragedy
Martin is putting the finishing touches to a biography of the artist Helen Fry (1864-1937). The movingly tragic story, never told accurately and in detail before, is of a woman admired for her artistic genius, intellect, personality, wit, and good looks, whose professional career, marriage, and whole life came to be wrecked by schizophrenia, on account of which she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act for the last thirty years of her life. The book throws light on the society and cultural environment in which she lived and worked and suffered. It also throws new light, not all of it favourable, on her husband, Roger Fry, who became the most influential art- critic of the first half of the twentieth century and a central member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Reception of new book, In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists, Manchester University Press, 2021.
(1) Selected by Manchester University Press as its “Book of the Month” for September 2021.
READ HERE: https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=26901
(2) Reviewed by Vanessa Curtis, author of two fine books about Virginia Woolf, in The Times Literary Supplement, 19 November 2021, p. 21.
Under the title “Bloomsbury blooms”, the reviewer writes of Martin: “In this masterful collection of essays, he shines a welcome new light on the oft-told stories of the Bloomsbury Group and their acquaintances, correcting errors, filling in gaps and revealing much ‘new’ information”. Calling him “something of a literary bloodhound”, she signals the “sort of dogged, forensic attention to detail that sets [his] Ferguson Smith’s book apart from the rest”.
(3) Reviewed by Seona Ford, in the Dorothy L Sayers Society Bulletin 278, November 2021, pp. 13-14.
Her judgment: “Carefully researched and scholarly. … The essays are fascinating.”
(4) Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft, in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 40, no. 1 (18 October 2021), Article 26.
The reviewer focuses, approvingly, on Essays 8-10, about Dorothy L. Sayers and Tolkien’s teacher Richard Williams Reynolds.
READ HERE: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol40/iss1/26
(5) Reviewed by Wendy Jones Nakanishi, in Virginia Woolf Bulletin 69 (January 2022), pp. 57-63.
She comments: “Smith brings a depth of knowledge and a level of meticulous scholarship to these biographical essays about important literary, artistic and historical figures of the early twentieth century that would be difficult to equal let alone surpass.”
READ HERE: www.martinfergusonsmith.com/pdf/69BulletinJonesReview.pdf
“The Royal Academy of Arts Students’ Clubs, 1883-1902,” The British Art Journal 22, No. 1 (Spring 2021) 78-88. 14 illustrations.
READ HERE: www.martinfergusonsmith.com/pdf/RA 20Clubs 20BAJ 20XXII.pdf
This link is provided by kind permission of the editor of The British Art Journal
This tale of two clubs is one that has never been told before. Each club had premises close to Piccadilly Circus. The earlier one, established in 1883,
was very short lived, but hosted important and influential lectures on art by Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. The later one, opened in 1889,
held regular meetings, especially smoking concerts – a sure sign that only men were eligible for membership! The exclusion of women is considered alongside
discussion of their status and discriminatory treatment in the Royal Academy Schools in the nineteenth century. Most of the illustrations are of the posters
and invitations designed by the students.
In and Out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021). 46 colour and black and white illustrations. Publication: 20 July 2021.
READ HERE: Blog about In and out of Bloomsbury: https://bit.ly/3rkH2X4
1 January 2021 was the centenary of the death of the outstandingly brilliant and successful women’s trade union leader Mary Reid Macarthur (born 1880). She was secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League from 1903 and then of the National Federation of Women Workers, which she established in 1906. She appears prominently in Martin’s biography of her close colleague and friend Madeleine Symons – Madeleine Symons: Social and Penal Reformer, published in 2017. See MODERN, Books.
“Fifty Years of New Epicurean Discoveries at Oinoanda”, Cronache Ercolanesi 50 (2020) 241-258.
The article chronicles the remarkable story of the Greek inscription set up by the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda (the longest inscription known from the ancient world) from antiquity to the present, with particular focus on the discoveries and rediscoveries made at Oinoanda in the fifty years 1968-2017. Since 1968, when Martin inaugurated new investigations, huge progress has been made. As he points out:
“The number of fragments [of the inscription] has much more than tripled, from 88 to 305, and the quantity of text has more than doubled, from about 3,550 words to about 8,000. The length of the known parts of Diogenes’ inscription is now only slightly less than the combined length of Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus, Letter to Menoeceus, and Principal Doctrines (Kyriai Doxai).”He concludes:
“Diogenes’ inscription … deserves a special place in the history of classical studies as one of the most remarkable documents to have come down to us from antiquity.”In a similar vein, Professor Alexander Verlinsky of Saint Petersburg wrote to Martin:
“I firmly believe that your Diogenes is one of the most outstanding discoveries in classics of the last two centuries.” (E-mail, 12 November 2017, quoted here with the writer’s kind permission)
READ HERE: https://www.martinfergusonsmith.com/pdf/CRONACHEERCOLANES.pdf
“Covid-19 and Greek Philosophy”, The Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (3rd Quarter 2020) 53-56. An invited contribution to a special issue of the journal (published online and on paper) entitled Thinking Through the Pandemic
READ HERE: http://www.martinfergusonsmith.com/COVID-19 and Greek Philosophy.pdf
Three earlier versions of this article were published in April and June 2020.
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On 3 July Martin was elected a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) “to acknowledge and commend your contribution to the field of Ancient Studies, and to further strengthen our existing bond”. In the latest phase of the investigations at Oinoanda in Turkey (since 2007) Martin has collaborated with German-led teams.
“Tribute to Diskin Clay and His Work on Diogenes of Oinoanda”, in P. Burian, J. Strauss Clay, and G. Davis (eds), Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature in Memory of Diskin Clay (Berlin, 2020), pp. 109-111.
"A New Look at Diogenes of Oinoanda, Fr. 157 Smith", Hyperboreus 25, 2 (2019) 351-362. 2 figures.
Contribution to an issue of Hyperboreus dedicated to Alexander Verlinsky, Professor of Classics, State University of St Petersburg, to mark his 60th birthday. The article presents a revised text, translation, and interpretation of a fragment of Diogenes' treatise Old Age - a fragment discovered by Martin at Oinoanda 50 years ago, in 1969.
DIOGENES OF OINOANDA, FRAGMENT 157 (SMITH), DRAWING (12:100) © Martin Ferguson Smith
Jürgen Hammerstaedt’s and Martin’s article “Diogenes of Oinoanda: The New and Unexpected Discoveries of 2017 (NF 214-219), With a Re-edition of Fr. 70-72” published in Epigraphica Anatolica 51 (2018) 43-79. Illustrated. The first publication of six new pieces of Diogenes’ philosophical inscription recorded at Oinoanda in October 2017. Two of the pieces (NF 214 and 215) are of particularly great interest and importance. The article includes a revised text of three already-known passages.


Book review by Gino Arcaro
In the book Gift and Mystery, Pope John Paul II wrote: “In God’s plan nothing happens by chance.” This applied to how I discovered his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope. I didn’t find the book. The book found me.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope is more than a book. It’s a spiritual workout, an intellectual challenge where Pope John Paul II speaks to the reader on a personal level. Crossing the Threshold of Hope is tied for top spot as the most influential book I’ve read, along with two other books that changed my life. Crossing the Threshold of Hope is a masterpiece. I have read Crossing the Threshold of Hope three times, discovering more meaning with every reading. Not one page is filler. I can open the book to any page and find a relevant message that applies to the present moment.
Pope John Paul II answers tough questions asked by interviewer Vittorio Messori with unique depth and breadth of perspective that has to be experienced by each reader but nothing is more profound than in the simplicity of background information that John Paul II wrote on page 212– “During the Second World War, while I was employed as a factory worker, I was attracted to Marian devotion.” The key words are factory worker. John Paul II started his journey like most of us. He made a living working the grind like the rest of us. His papacy was shaped by the same real-life experiences that we experience. John Paul II had to learn the same way we have to learn. He worked, he studied – he had to pay the price for vocational enlightenment.
On page 86, Pope John Paul II shares examples of literature that he studied as part of his academic pathway to the papacy. John Paul II wrote a doctoral thesis on the writings of Saint John of the Cross including the Ascent of Mount Carmel and in the Dark Night of the Soul. “To reach what you do not know, you must go where you do not know” is an insight into what John Paul II read to learn what he needed to know, to become the pope that the world needed him to be. His papacy was shaped through a process of work – manual and intellectual labour. He lived what we live – a struggle for higher level of consciousness to experience spiritual awakening. John Paul II was a blue-collar pope who worked mind, body, and soul to fulfill his calling. His knowledge wasn’t just handed to him. He earned it. He discovered it. He had to search for it. He learned what he needed to know the same way we have to learn what we need to know. Among the many lessons learned from John Paul II is the need for higher level of consciousness, the need to be spiritually awake to what is working around us and working inside us while we work on what seems to be the routine. Nothing just happens. Nothing happens accidentally, randomly, or overnight. There’s a process that we all have to experience to become who we are called to be, to serve who we need to serve, and to lift those we need to lift.
Page 180 gave me professional direction at the perfect time by answering my question of what to do next. John Paul gave powerful perspective to Matthew 25:25-30, The Parable of the Talents – don’t waste your God-given gifts and talents, a message reiterated by Pope Francis in 2013. Our God-given gifts and talents are not to be wasted. They are supposed to be developed to their fullest potential to serve others according to God’s will and to fulfill our individual calling.
In a world that bombards us with bad news, Crossing the Threshold of Hope cuts through the darkness with Good News. The title is the key element of the book, the element of hope. John Paul II wrote it on the cover of the folder containing his manuscript that he sent to the editors, suggesting it as the title but emphasized it was only a “suggestion,’’ leaving the final decision to the editors who choose to keep it because it ‘’perfectly conveyed the heart of the message.” I will add one more reason why the title was perfect – it expresses the soul of the message. A great book strikes a chord by expressing its heart and soul in order to connect with the reader’s heart and soul.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope is a blessing. Reading it guarantees a spiritual awakening.
Blessings and all good things.


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Stephen King said, "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." This is as true for academic writing as it is for creative writing. The literature review that you will do for your dissertation positions you in the knowledge of your area of study. You must be fully immersed in that in order to do a dissertation.
Having been on a few doctoral committees at this point, I can tell you this is a place where I see people struggle a lot. In fact, the literature review was perhaps the most difficult section of the dissertation for me as a doctoral student. Here are a few general guidelines to consider.
1. READ EVERYTHING. Go to the old stuff and read everything that has been published through today. You are expected to have done this. In one of my classes in my doctoral program someone asked, "When will I know if I have read enough?" The professor responded, "When you start finding the same work over and over again. You will see work referenced in an article or a dissertation and you will say to yourself, 'Oh! I've read that.' When that starts happening all the time, then you have read enough."
Now, just because you read it doesn't mean you will cite it in your proposal or dissertation. But you will know enough to know what the seminal works are and what pieces align most closely with your work.
2. Talk to subject matter experts about what and whom you should be reading. Hopefully, you have a committee member who knows something about what you're doing for your dissertation. Ask them to steer you in the right direction (but to neither do the lit review for you nor hand-hold you through every step of the process).
3. READ DISSERTATIONS. Dissertations on similar or related topics are perhaps one of the best ways to start your literature review. Read their reference lists. Read their lit review sections. What work are they citing?
4. Connect the literature back to your research question / study. How does what you're reading connect to your study? How does your study add to what the literature you are reading has done. Do this as you read AND as you write your literature review chapter.
Keep up the good (and hard) work!
P.S. Below is a chart compiled by Dr. Maureen Wilson through CSPTalk on texts related to literature reviews. Thought you might find it helpful.


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Floundering is a quick read but a powerful one. Although this is author Romy Ash’s first novel, it isn’t by any means her first foray into published fiction. She is a regular writer for the Big Issue (both fiction and non fiction pieces) as well as several other publications.
It is difficult to find books that are successfully written in quite a young voice but that are written for adults. Ash’s use of language not only sits perfectly at the age of the book’s young narrator, it gives him a true Australian identity without becoming naff or stereotyped.
Romy Ash is wonderfully understated, every word is worth at least ten more and creates a wonderfully rounded picture. From the title “Floundering” which aptly describes the two young boys cast adrift amidst a foreign outback landscape.
Although Jordy is slightly younger than the young narrator Tom, it is clear that he is out of his depth. Slightly more jaded and suspicious of their flighty mother Loretta from the moment she sweeps back into their lives, a flurry of excitement and promises, his mistrust makes it clear to the reader that her impetuous behaviour and excited offerings mask past betrayal and hurt.
Tom is young enough that he is initially swept up with the idea of a family roadtrip. Again, his language makes the character, he is perfectly natural and his young Australian voice is so evocative. Sunburn, sand, pies and shotgun seating arrangements are some of the few childhood memories that Ash has captured so succinctly.
Floundering is about things unsaid. Ash pushes her story just far enough like a watercolour, the reach of the words extends beyond the immediate images on the page. Jordy’s reaction is indicative of our expectations of Loretta, a mother who has clearly abandoned her children once, before storming back into their lives and rushing them away from the shaky normalcy that they have created with their grandparents. The counterbalance to this is the hope that we see in Tom, and we want along with him for things to turn out ok just this once.
The water image permeates the title deeper into the novel, as Tom and Jordy are pushed further and further out of their depth, as Loretta drifts away. It is in the setting, the seawater edging the beach where they end up, and perhaps most importantly in the thirst they have, both for actual water, and a more spiritual thirst for love, family and a home.
It is unsurprising that only weeks after its release, Floundering is already the recipient of many favourable reviews and publicity. Romy Ash sits comfortably alongside peers Tony Birch and Anna Krien as she writes about the contemporary Australian experience, and our uneasy truce with our landscape and our society.


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The Business of Writing for Children An Award-winning Author's Tips on Writing Children's Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids
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INTRODUCTION: "Dangerous Myths and Terrible Truths" PART 1 -- THE BASICS Writing Tips; Book Categories; Submissions; Publisher Categories; Contracts; Publishing Process; Bookseller Categories; Promotion and Career PART 2 -- THE INSIDE STORY Close looks at special topics. APPENDIX -- RESOURCES
About the AuthorAaron Shepard is the author of King o' the Cats, The Sea King's Daughter, The Legend of Lightning Larry, and sixteen other published and forthcoming picture books. His publishers have included Atheneum, Scribners, Clarion, Lothrop, Dial, and HarperCollins, as well as Cricket and Australia's School Magazine. Aaron's work has been honored by the American Library Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the American Folklore Society, and he has been a judge for the Golden Kite Awards of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
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Manuel Iris (Mexico, 1983). Poet and educator recently named Cincinnati Poet Laureate.
Iris received the National Award of Poetry Merida (Mexico, 2009) for his book “Notebook of Dreams”, and the Regional award of poetry Rodulfo Figueroa for his book “The Disguises of Fire” (Mexico, 2014) which was considered one of the best books of the year by the newspaper El Norte (Mexico, 2015), and finalist of the prestigious Latin-American award for published books “Ciudad de la lira” in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Iris coauthored, along with Brazilian poet Floriano Martins, the poetry book “Overnight Medley” (Brazil, 2014), and editor of the book “At the edge of silence: essays about Ali Chumacero”.
His poetic work has been included in national and international anthologies like Postal del oleage (postcard of the waves) anthology of Mexican and Colombian poets born in the 80s, published simultaneously in Mexico and Colombia; Voces de America Latina (Voices of Latin America) published in NY, For a Better World: Poems of Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati artis, published in Cincinnati, and The Portable Boog Reader 9, an Anthology of Cincinnati and New York poetry, published in New York.
Recently, three different anthologies of his poetic work were published: The Naked Light, in Venezuela; Before the Mystery, in El Salvador, and his first bilingual collection of poetry, Translating Silence/Traducir el silencio, published in New York.
Manuel has given lectures and poetry readings in universities and cultural venues of Mexico, the United States and Europe. Iris holds a BA in Latin American Literature from the Autonomous University of the Yucatan (Mexico), an MA in Spanish from the New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Cincinnati.


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Use the timeline to find out more about things that actually happened during the times of the stories and people who actually lived.
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“… Set in the 1950s… stories are narrated alternately by a pair of African-American girls who take pride in their heritage
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That girl says a lot about things being different, but there’s one thing she didn’t even mention. And it’s the one thing you should definitely know: Nothing is more different that Ernestine and I are from each other.
We’re both 10 when our stories begin, but we
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There is one thing that’s the same for Ernestine and me.
My sister, Madelyn, and Ernestine’s brother, Marcus,
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So far our stories go from when we’re 10 to when we’re 13.
A lot happens and changes during that time. But in
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Our stories take place in the 1950s and 1960s.
Wow! Almost 60 years ago!
In many ways, those times were like times today. Kids had best friends—and enemies (like I do). We had sisters and brothers who were sometimes a pain; we played games and hung around together when we could.
In other ways, things were really different. For one thing, we could never text our friends on cell phones because that kind of phone hadn't been invented yet! If we saw something that read JK LOL, we wouldn't have had any idea what it meant!
But you would, right?
Things were different in another very important way. Mostly I’m talking about how African Americans (most of us called ourselves “Negroes” then) were treated in America.
Sometimes our stories help show this. And sometimes the stories mention people who actually lived
and events that really happened.
I think this site will help you explore our times. But it won’t help you understand somebody whose name I’m not going to mention.
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New year, new you, new books to sink your teeth into. Here are some of Long Live Vinyl‘s favourite music books to hit the shelves over the Christmas period…
Prolific UK comedy screenwriter and script doctor Graham Duff (he wrote Johnny Vegas vehicle Ideal) has been going to gigs for over 40 years, and each chapter heading of his excellent memoir is dedicated to a gig that left an enduring impression on him. From a ‘shit’ Cliff Richard concert at King George’s Hall in Blackburn, aged 10, to a momentous one watching personal favourites Wire in Brighton, aged 50, there are 15 gigs in all. These encompass not only Cliff and the wizen post-punks, but also The Jam, The Specials, Joy Division, Psychic TV, The Shamen, Primal Scream, The Velvet Underground, Sleater-Kinney, The Strokes, The Fall (Mark E Smith was an acquaintance), David Bowie and Massive Attack. Clearly Duff is a man of great musical taste, and his writing on the subject is vivid, funny and insightful. Much to his credit, Foreground Music succeeds both as a musical history and as a memoir, skipping across the passing decade’s trends and subcultures as it celebrates the inspirational power of live music.
Janis Lyn Joplin’s journey from a middle-class girl in the conservative city of Port Arthur, Texas to the very embodiment of the 60s counterculture is wonderfully well chronicled by seasoned biographer Holly George-Warren. As a youngster, Joplin was bullied for being different to the other girls, but as she got older those differences were celebrated, especially in San Francisco, where she was adopted as the city’s unofficial queen. Joplin’s vocal talent was extraordinary, and she is heralded as one of the most impassioned vocalists in the history of rock ’n’ roll. She is also remembered for the uncompromising way she lived her life (Janis was photographed so often with a bottle of Southern Comfort in her hand that the company bought her a fur coat as a reward). Based on unprecedented access to Janis’ family, friends, lovers, former bandmates and personal archives, George-Warren has gone a long way towards making her version of the Janis Joplin story as close to definitive as she can possibly get it.
Cricket lovers of a certain vintage will instantly recall Booker T.’s music from the track Soul Limbo, the BBC’s go-to theme tune for their coverage of the sport for many a year. While the great man barely mentions the sound of leather on willow in his much-awaited autobiography, the longevity of his career in music means he has an anecdote or two to go in its place. This is the man, for instance, who wrote Green Onions, his soul-rocking, cosmopolitan take on the blues, when he was just 16. Born Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr in Memphis on 12 November, 1944, Jones’ musical talent was identified early and he recounts his early days in great detail; while still at school, he would deliver papers in the morning and play gigs in nightclubs in the evenings to support his family. While at hometown record label Stax, Jones formed the groundbreaking, multi-racial Booker T. And The M.G.’s, and collaborated with some of Southern Soul’s giants, in the form of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave. Not only has the evergreen Booker T. got into the bookwriting game, he’ll also be touring the UK later in the year.
To coincide with his remarkable retrospective at the V&A in 2013, voracious reader David Bowie released a fascinating list of 100 books that he regarded as the “most important and influential” to him as an artist (as opposed to a catalogue of his personal favourites). Subtitled The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life, experienced writer John O’Connell has cleverly run with this list and turned it into a highly entertaining, witty and informative book. One of Bowie’s strengths as a serious performing artist was that he always had a sharp repurposer’s eye for a good idea/concept, which means the works on his list are made all the more tangible when attempting to relate them back to his art (whether that’s directly or indirectly). O’Connell dedicates a short, incisive essay on each book on Bowie’s list that not only links them to the great man, but also places them in a wider cultural context. The list provided evidence of Bowie’s restless intelligence and revealed him as a man equally comfortable with both high (Homer, Dante, Camus) and low (Viz, The Beano) culture, which is an absolute godsend to O’Connell, allowing him to add the required amount of light and shade.


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The songs directly connected with the shamanistic ritual, can be divided into two subtypes. To the first subtype belong the "magic songs" proper, that the Nenets shaman1, tádyebya, performs during his séance. To the second subtype belong the shamanistic narrative songs, which contain stories about the shamans and mythological entities (cf. Helimski 1989, 26)2. Lehtisalo defines the shamanistic songs as "songs sung with the accompaniment of the witch drum and having the content related to the mythical beliefs, where the journeys of the Samoyeds to the spirits or to the deceased are depicted". (Lehtisalo 1922, 89) These songs are referred to with a general, but somewhat obscure appellation sámbadabts3. This name is closely related to one of the functional categories of Nenets shamans, the sámbana. The sámbana shamans were specialized only in escorting the dead to the world of the dead and to the ritual cleaning and protection of the relatives, their dwelling and equipment (cf. Khomich 1981, 16).
Lehtisalo (1956, 187) proposes a Forest Nenets song type name tachipya"tma kinawsh, that is formed out of the general appellation of the shaman, tádyebya, and of the song type, hinabts. Furthermore, Khomich (1981, 16) assumes the category of the sámbana shamans to be of relatively late origin: "...the duties of a shaman specialized in the funeral rites (i.e. sámbana) were not considered as indispensable, and besides, there is no information about this kind of shamans in the 18th century sources."
Interestingly, Kupriyanova gives practically no information about the shamanistic songs. She has assigned the shamanistic songs to the category of the shamanistic fairy tales in her typology of the Nenets oral tradition (Kupriyanova 1960, 17). She only states briefly, that "the shamanism had a once certain role in the folk practices and therefore it has been possible to record a corpus of shamanistic songs and tales". (Kupriyanova 1960, 19). Also later she makes only a passing reference to the existence of Lehtisalo's material (cf. Kupriyanova 1965, 20). This is interesting in that she gives much more extensive information about all the other categories of the Nenets songs. This may be partially due to the places she recorded her material, namely among the Malaya Zemlya tundra (actually only the village of Nel'min-Nos at the delta of the Pechora river), having no informants at hand, who would have been able to give information about the Nenets shamanistic practices. More likely, however, is, that at those times discussion of the subject of shamanism was very strictly banned. Thus it is likely, that both the Nenets and Kupriyanova practiced a strong self-censorship with the issue of shamanism.
________________________________________ 1The word shaman has spread to international use - via Russian - originally from the Evenki language. The Turkic word kam could also have spread elsewhere, but for some reason it didn't, but was left in Russian (kamlaniye 'a shamanistic séance'; kamlat' 'shamanize').
2Castrén has labelled one song as tádieibtso (Castrén-Lehtisalo 1940, 150) and described it as "an epic song with a shaman theme". Simoncsics has also a mention of these songs (tádebtso) (1978, 401). However, none of the Nenets that I have asked about the existence of a shaman song tádebtso, has recognized such a term. Probably the tádieibtso/tádebtso refers to something like tádyebya' syo 'shaman's song', pronounced as tádyebyansyo. Lehtisalo reports of a word tadebtsu as 'the helping spirits of the shaman' (1956, 478).
3Lehtisalo has also translated the corresponding verb through the concept of the sámbana tádyebya (1956, 406): "sámpá 'to escort the shadow-souls of the dead to the underworld with songs and accompaniment of the magic drum' ".


Gender Aspect of the Violations
Transforming Grief and Anguish to Courage and Hope:
Women’s experiences of claiming their rights as workers and seeking justice for their loved ones deprived of life and freedom
By Ms. Carolina C. Dionco[i]
(Excerpt from Despair to Defiance: The Impact of Extra-judicial Killings, Enforced Disappearance, Arbitrary Detention to Families of Victims. Center for Trade Union and Human Rights. 2011.)
In December 2009, I received an invitation from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) to their Christmas Party together with the workers. It was a Christmas party very different from the others that I have attended. The lack of festive mood among the workers and their families was obvious. The mood inside the room reminded me of my visit to the Women’s Correctional Facility on Christmas Eve several years ago. The party unusually began with a workshop that gathered together workers and their families, each with their sad stories to tell. The sharing of the meal changed the mood a bit but the conversations toned down. A simple program consisted of speeches, singing, and some games made the atmosphere a little festive. Soon the workers were laughing and teasing each other. I was amazed by the transformation. Amid the experiences of grief and anxieties, they can find ways to break from them to enjoy a brief moment of fun and entertainment.
This paper is the fruit of my reflection of engagement with the workers through the CTUHR since that Christmas party. I am grateful for the opportunity to have facilitated sessions with the workers and their families, most of whom are women, who had been victims of human rights abuses. The focus of this reflection, however, is on the experiences of women in their struggle to protect and claim their rights as workers or to seek justice for their loved ones who had been deprived of life and freedom. An assumption here is that human rights abuses affect women differently because of their gender. Women also deal with their pain and grief, fear and anxieties differently because they are women.
[i] Carolina C. Dionco is a faculty member of the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies (IFRS) and the Theology and Religious Education Department (TRED) of De La Salle University Manila. She is also chairperson of Women’s Initiatives for Society, Culture, and Environment (WISE), a non-government organization that helps poor women in empowering themselves towards personal and social transformation.


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PIC Microcontrollers, 50 Projects for Beginners and Experts
- Bert van Dam
- Reviewed 2nd July 2009
About the book
'PIC Microcontrollers 50 Projects for Beginner and Experts' by Bert
van Dam is a book that explains how to use PIC micros to build 50
different projects. First published in 2007 in Dutch it was then translated
into a number of languages including English.
The author contacted me a couple of years back and asked about using my
BTc (Binary time constant PIC sound playback algorithm) in a book he was
writing, which of course was fine by me, and I was delighted recently when
the English translation of the book became available and Bert set me a
Firstly, the mistake!
Bert covers the BTc sound encoding on pages 203-221. However there is fairly
serious mistake in Bert's BTc encoding algorithm on page 206, Section 1.
He scales the original sound waveform at 100%, so that the 8bit sound data
(0-255) is scaled to 0v-5v.
I must accept some blame for this! As my web page in 2006
only covered the encoding algorithm in a fairly sketchy fashion and I
failed to specify the entire encoding process in detail.
At the time I simply assumed that anyone using BTc encoding would just
use my free BTc Encoder Windows software to do the encoding, however
Bert added BTc encoding to his own suite of software that was to be
provided free with the book.
The correct BTc encoding algorithm requires that the original sound
wave is first reduced in amplitude to fit totally within 50% of the full
range. This is an critical step that provides 2 important benefits;
The exponential curve of the encoded wavform is much flatter and
easier to model accurately when it is in the middle 50% of the range.
The BTc encoded waveform will sometimes 'overshoot' the original
waveform, so it is vital to have some spare 'overhead' to contain
the overshoot without distortion.
Two 'workarounds' to fix the mistake
Workaround 1. Simply use my free
BTc Sound encoder software
to do the encoding instead of Bert's encoding software.
Workaround 2. To use Bert's WAVconvert software you can
first reduce the sound amplitude (sound volume) to 50%, using any free
Windows wave editing software like Audacity or CoolWave
etc. These programs allow you
to reduce the 'volume' of the sound to 50% as required, and they also
keep the sound in the centre of the waveform, which is also required.
See the picture; top wave is speech at 100% volume, bottom wave was
converted in Audacity to "-3.0 dB amplification" or to the required
Using either of these two workarounds will enable the BTc sound to
properly model the original sound waveform and will give much better
Now to review the book!
Wow! This book is comprehensive. Although the book title states "for
Beginners and Experts" I expect you will BE an expert by the time you
have completed the projects.
This book is a very nice blend of hobby style "how to build stuff" and
a more professional reference or textbook style. References are clearly
listed at the bottom of each page so you can do further research.
The book itself IS a reference in that it contains schematics, code
examples, IC pinouts, etc. However the friendly hobby style is not
compromised. You can flip the book open anywhere and see simple
easy diagrams and descriptions, ready to start hands-on playing with
Probably the most obvious feature of the book, it covers just about
everything you need to really take control of PIC micros. Even topics
that were proviously in the "expert only" category like; ultrasonic
ranging, DC motor closed loop speed control, recording sound,
using text LCD, external eeprom with i2c, infrared serial comms,
etc are brought firmly into the "you can do it" category with
simple but detailed explanations and clear schematics, diagrams
and code examples. This book really covers it all including
PC comms, tons of sensor types, PIC to PIC comms, clocks, debugging,
motor and lighting PWM, scrolling displays... The list goes on and on.
Ease of use.
Good marks here too. The book starts off with the very basics and
progresses in a logical fashion to more complex projects that each
introduce new hardware and how to connect that hardware to a PIC.
Alongside each project's schematic there is a clear photo showing
that circuit plugged into a hobby style breadboard. This gives
excellent ease of use, and further adaptability as once the reader
has the project assembled and working they can change/add parts
on the plug in breadboard to see what happens.
Every project has a simple easy to understand schematic;
Clear photos show how to connect each project on the breadboard;
But as a first book for beginners?
I don't think this is the best book for absolute PIC beginners.
Despite the author clearly covering PIC basics at the start of the
book, there are many other "PIC beginner" books that are more gentle
and use a lot more pages gradually introducing the concept of
microcontrollers and what other simple electronic parts are etc.
Maybe for an ADULT beginner who can read well and has a
basic knowlege of electronics, this would be a suitable first book.
However I won't criticise Bert for making this decision, for
the same fact that there are so many PIC beginner books it would
have been a waste to "dumb down" this book, when the pages could
(and were) utilised much better to provide a wealth of excellent
projects that are not found in other simpler books. If you were
only ever to buy ONE PIC book, make it this one.
Value for money.
Well since I didn't pay for my copy of the book this may not be a
fair evaluation, but if I evalutate the book on amount of content
it is excellent. Almost 450 pages, crammed full with small print
and tons of diagrams. Not like some books that have 200 pages and big
print and huge white margins to fill up space... Value in terms
of the quality of content is also very high. It doesn't miss
anything that you need, and it doesn't cover silly things that
are obsolete or that nobody wants to know. The things that are
covered have been covered well, I don't think you will need to
go reaching for the internet too often when working through
the projects. There is additonal value for money provided in
the many PC tools also provided to support to the book and allow
you to connect your PIC project to your PC. I have to give it an
excellent mark for value.
Clear diagrams show how to use the many free PC support
software tools provided;
The examples in the book are in a popular PIC language called
JAL (Just Another Language!) a free and well supported PIC language
created by Wouter van Ooijen. It is a simple easy to use language which
is basically a simplified version of the very popular language C.
The code examples are short and easy to understand. Where the
code for a project is a little longer, the author explains it first
in simple "snippets" of code, then connects all the pieces at the end
of the project to complete it. This is very well done. If the
reader is already a C user, the JAL code is very easily converted
to C. Otherwise JAL looks to be a good functional first language
for a beginner to learn, and the reader will find it easy to move
on to C language at a later date (if they choose).
Even someone with no coding experience will find it easy to understand
JAL code snippets like this (which toggles a LED on/off whenever the
switch is pressed);
if switch then
led = ! led
Faults of the book.
Well there are not many. It's one great fault is that it is really too
comprehensive! With so many cool projects using so many peripheral
devices it might be a little overwhelming at first, although that is
generally negated by the logical practical style of the book which
progresses in difficulty as the reader completes each new project.
I think a more descriptive title may have been '50 Projects from
Intermediate to Expert' as the book is a little heavy for an
ABSOLUTE beginner, especially of school age.
The breadboard pictures (showing how to connect parts) are an excellent
concept, but they are a little small and can be difficut to see well.
On many pages there is room to have enlarged the pictures 20% or 30%
which I think would have been well worth it.
The Contents page is well written and in logical sequence, but does not
explain the full scope of the projects. Project names are very simple
and do not do justice to the projects, for example;
5.2 Dark activated switch, 8.4 Tilt sensor.
I think it would have been a good idea to add a one sentence description
under each project title stating what peripherals/sensors etc are
used in that project. This would be well worth the extra 2 or 3 pages
required for a larger contents section.
Well to be honest I WANTED to like this book, because I knew Bert had
included some of my work. But when I received the book one glance made
it very obvious that any personal desires were completely irrelevant.
The book stands squarely on its own two well grounded feet. It is
massive in content, truly a step above most PIC books. Everything is
clearly explained. If you want to "really get you teeth into" PICs this
is the one book you need.
The book can be purchased from the publishers;
And is also available from
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LONWORKS® - Installation Handbook, 3rd Edition
The THIRD edition of the LONWORKS Installation Handbook is now available. The LONWORKS Installation Handbook is one of the few third party references available about LONWORKS technology and its applications. The book is ideally suited for electrical engineers, installers, construction engineers, system integrators and all those who plan, install, integrate or maintain LONWORKS-based building automation system.
The LONWORKS Installation Handbook is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning more about LONWORKS technology, ranging from a novice to an expert. It provides a practical introduction to distributed LONWORKS networks, giving technical and non-technical readers an understanding of this complex subject matter. Building on the technical foundation, the booth also describes how to implement LONWORKS networks in various building automation applications.
The book begins with an introduction to bus technology and control networks. Building on the basic technical foundation, the book provides the reader with a more detailed understanding of LONWORKS technology starting with a description of nodes and Neuron Chips, communication protocols, communication principles and network topology. The various transmission media options are explained along with the variety of network topology and connectivity options. One entire chapter is dedicated to installation guidelines, ranging from cable selection, safety issues, and device connectivity. Another chapter focuses on integration using traditional tools, including advice on tool selection, project planning, and device binding. Given the pervasive use of TCP/IP in many buildings, the chapter on LONWORKS and IP is invaluable. The chapter describes TCP/IP as a communications medium, network connectivity options, network infrastructure and various Internet protocols. The final chapter focuses on troubleshooting an installation. A handy check list is provided to help installers diagnose potential programs.
In the appendices, readers can gain a better understanding of how everything fits together through several simple application examples including lighting control, sun blinds, and single room control. Additional information is provided on troubleshooting, project management, remote management and a table of commonly used Standard Network Variable Types (SNVTs). The book contains an extensive index as well as a list of contact addresses and web pages for further information.
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One theme that runs throughout his works and indeed in Achebe’s life is the conviction that what the world needed was the old fashion attitude of love and compassion for humanity.
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Washington County, compiled and published by Washington County
Historical Society, revised April 1979
in 1787, Plymouth is older than Washington County. For 70 years prior to
Plymouth’s founding, generations of the Rhodes family had been planters in
the area. Arthur Rhodes founded what was to become Plymouth from land he
acquired through inheritance, gift deeds and purchases. This collection of
property became his plantation and was called Brick House. From that
property he sectioned off one hundred acres, subdividing them into 172 lots,
which he would sell. These lots were the beginnings of Plymouth. He sold 16
Rhodes ended his enterprise in 1790 and he and his wife
sold the remaining lots, except for two or three kept for themselves, to
nine trustees for 860 pounds. The trustees installed posts to mark streets
and planted trees. In 1807, Plymouth became the first incorporated town in
the newly–formed Washington County.
Some provisions of the incorporation required “strict
observance of the Sabbath day” and “the erecting (of) a public market.”
Commissioners had the authority to appoint “an harbor–master of the port of
Plymouth.” They also had the responsibility of preventing anyone or any
ship carrying an infectious disease from entering the town. Later, as it’s
told, violation of this law brought about tragedy.
Several theories exist about how Plymouth got its
name. Early in its history, Plymouth was a thriving port. The most popular
theory supposes that sailors on ships from Plymouth, Massachusetts regularly
stopped there for cargo—thus the name Plymouth Landing. Later, the name was
shortened to Plymouth.
Water played a major role in the development of
Plymouth. Flatboats floated down the creeks and rivers loaded with goods and
produce to be reloaded onto sailing vessels. Early in the 1800s Plymouth was
one of six main ports in North Carolina and ranked ninth in population among
towns. In 1790, the United States Congress established Plymouth as a port of
delivery, complete with a customs house. Schooners bound for the West Indies
sailed from the port heavily loaded with hogsheads of tobacco, barrels of
tar, pitch and turpentine, masts and spars, corn and rice.
The town prospered and grew. In 1810 its population
was 671 and the foundation for a solid community was laid. The first public
school was formed in 1810 and the first church in the town, the Methodist
Church, was founded in 1830 with the Episcopal Church following in 1837. (Morratuck
Church, outside the town, had been holding services for years.) By 1840,
there were 1,123 inhabitants. Ten years later, there were only 951. A ship
stopping at the port brought an unknown fever to the town, taking the lives
of many residents and causing others to leave in fear.
In a few years Plymouth’s location on the Roanoke,
which had been such an asset, suddenly became a liability. Plymouth was one
of the ports targeted for blockade by Union forces during the Civil War.
Tradition has it that, by the end of the war, only 11 buildings were
standing. Five of those exist today: Grace Episcopal Church, Ausbon House,
Latham House, Armistead House and the Clark-Chesson House. (See Plymouth's
Historic Walking Tour.)
For many years after the Civil War, Plymouth and
Washington County continued to rely on its rich resources of farmland,
forests and rivers and all are important to its culture and economy today.