by Jeff Stookey | May 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
After reading Homer’s Iliad, I’m continuing with the theme of great war novels. I recently read Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine motivated me to finally read War...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
War and Greek Mythology I was interested in male friendships in Homer’s Iliad, when I bought a copy of Madeline Miller’s recent bestseller The Song of Achilles, but I challenged myself to first read The Iliad of Homer. (I’ve long held a paperback...
by Jeff Stookey | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
As portrayed in Medicine For The Blues, fear and intimidation were tools of the KKK in the 1920s as they attempted to create a homogeneous society, but nothing on the scale of 1984 (published in 1949) and Brave New World (1932). Too much has been written about these...
by Jeff Stookey | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While doing research for Medicine For The Blues trilogy, I read a lot of footnotes and bibliographies and that’s how I ran across this intriguing article—a sharp-witted interpretation of the original vampire story: “Kiss Me with those Red Rips”: Gender and Inversion...
by Jeff Stookey | Sep 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Legislative restrictions on teaching science and history can lead to anti-science attitudes and racism in voting laws. In my Medicine For The Blues trilogy I tried to give a full picture of the era of the early 1920s by including details about many aspects of the...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
January 6th insurrection violence The coup d’etat by the violent mob of insurrectionists in Washington, DC, on January 6th, 2021, failed. Mark Danner’s article “Reality Rebellion” (in the July 1, 2021 issue of The New York Review of Books; see References below)...
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