The Kickstarter to support three of the titles Shadowpaw Press is publishing this fal, two science fiction novels and one fantasy, funded at $1,805 of the $1,500 CDN goal. Thanks to everyone who kicked in! …
On May 7, I was in Calgary for the joint book launch of the first two titles of the Shadowpaw Press Spring/Summer list, The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer and The Traitor’s Son by the …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, turned to Crowdfundr to help ensure …
This year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, succeeded, reaching …
Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
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Gratuitous anti-Americanism
From The Globe and Mail:
Yes, as the tributes have insisted, Brando was indeed an American icon, but that cliché needs dusting off too, and then re-examined in all its paradoxical wonder. Because, ultimately, Marlon Brando seems as complex and as simple as the country that revered and reviled him — so perceptive and so provincial, so rebellious and so reactionary, so brilliantly endowed and so fatally flawed, such an inspiring tale of promise fulfilled and such a sad story of potential wasted.
So the U.S. is “fatally flawed” and “a sad story of potential wasted.” Typical of Rick Groen, which is why I always figure anything he likes, I’ll hate, and vice-versa. So far, this philosophy has not steered me wrong.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2004/07/gratuitous-anti-americanism/
