Of a Fire in Christiantown
I'm a member of the volunteer firefighting company of Tisbury 651 , a ladder truck that also goes by the nickname Tisbury Tower One, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Saturday morning, three days...
View ArticlePulitzer-Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks talks with Wetmachine about...
Today Wetmachine talks with Geraldine Brooks, whose novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006, about trends in publishing. She joins the roster of Wetmachine “Whither Publishing?”...
View ArticleThoughts on an Old Fire Truck of North Caldwell: Time, Ambition, Rust
My friend and childhood friend Ande sent me a while ago a snapshot of an ancient fire truck rusting in a snow-covered field of weeds. The hood has been removed and the left front wheel as well; the...
View ArticleThe Keystone XL Pipeline — A project IG-Farben would be proud of
You’ve heard of the Keystone tar-sands pipeline by now. You may not have heard that the Reactionary Right in the U.S. Senate is attempting to revive it yet again, after their last gambit failed. We...
View ArticleJohn E. Sundman 1926 — 2013
[Editor’s Note: Because I’ve published books under three middle names and created a variety of fictional “John [$variable] Sundman” personae, I find myself in the unusual position of stating that the...
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