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The Ballad of New Rivers Press: Part One, An Overview

As I write these words, New Rivers Press (NRP), one of the oldest and most distinguished literary not-for-profit small presses in America, is still in business at Minnesota State University (MSUM), though barely, its very illustrious backlist — or some of almost 400 titles, at least — distributed by Small…

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The Ballad of New Rivers Press: Part One, An Overview
The Ballad of New Rivers Press: Part One, An Overview

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The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the King

It’s like a board game, the monarchy. Since we don’t pay for it, we can watch the game with amusement. I’m astonished, though, that it’s still going. Something to believe in, I suppose, for Brits, who live in hell these days under the Tories and no longer have the E.U…

Queen Elizabeth Ii

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The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the King
The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the King
Queen Elizabeth Ii

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The Adoption Racket and Abortion

I’m shocked. What a world we’re leaving to our kids. If a woman gets pregnant — or, in Ohio, a 10-year-old child gets raped — she’s told, in the bad states, that she’s a slave who has to carry the fetus to term whether she wants to or not. Where…

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The Adoption Racket and Abortion
The Adoption Racket and Abortion

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It’s All About Banning Sexual Pleasure, Isn’t It?

“Any state that forces a pregnant woman to have a child before viability is a slaveholding state engaging in sexual violence.” I read this today: “A pregnant woman in Texas told police that her unborn child counted as an additional passenger after being cited for driving alone in a high-occupancy (HOV) lane, offering up a potentially clever defense for a motorist navigating the legal landscape following the supreme court’s striking down…

Abortion Rights

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It’s All About Banning Sexual Pleasure, Isn’t It?
It’s All About Banning Sexual Pleasure, Isn’t It?
Abortion Rights

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After Roe V. Wade: Lysistrata and Freedom

Your body, your choice. Forcing an unwilling woman to continue a pregnancy before viability is not pro-life. It’s slavery. If you want to have a child, give birth. Your business. Nobody else’s. If you decide it’s best to abort, seldom an easy choice, have the abortion. Your business. Nobody else’s. …

Roe V Wade

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After Roe V. Wade: Lysistrata and Freedom
After Roe V. Wade: Lysistrata and Freedom
Roe V Wade

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Dec 26, 2022

The Things We Say When We Say Goodbye

Katrina

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Katrina

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The Things We Say When We Say Goodbye

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Dec 2, 2022

Vengeance Is Mine? Or An Eye for An Eye?

The Bible — any bible — is like a ouija board or the I Ching or a roll of the dice. You can justify anything with a quote from the bible. I’m a fan of the Black writer John Edgar Wideman, now 80. I first met him in the late…

John Edgar Wideman

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Vengeance Is Mine? Or An Eye for An Eye?
Vengeance Is Mine? Or An Eye for An Eye?
John Edgar Wideman

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Nov 8, 2022

Election Day

(a short story from Clouds Are the Mountains of the World) “Did you vote?” the mysterious Ava said. She had a bright orange sticker stuck to the sweater over her left nipple. I VOTED, it said. …

Short Fiction

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Election Day
Election Day
Short Fiction

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Sep 12, 2022

Should Salman Rushdie Receive the Nobel Prize?

As most of you know by now, a mentally ill young man, reportedly a convert to fundamentalist Shia extremism, attacked the well-known author Salman Rushdie on August 12, 2022, as he was about to lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in New York state, stabbing him a dozen times or more…

Salman Rushdie

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Should Salman Rushdie Receive the Nobel Prize?
Should Salman Rushdie Receive the Nobel Prize?
Salman Rushdie

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Jul 5, 2022

The United States Is Not a Christian Nation

A majority of Americans identify as Christian; 30% have no religious affiliation. Christians and atheists, along with everybody else, are equal in the eyes of the law. The United States is NOT a Christian nation; we have no state religion. That’s a good thing. When unelected politicians on the Supreme…

Christianity

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The United States Is Not a Christian Nation
The United States Is Not a Christian Nation
Christianity

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