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My Sunday Presentation at Decatur Book Festival

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My Decatur Book Festival Saturday presentation

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Hollywood screenwriters keep pulp (short) fiction alive | EW.com

Hollywood screenwriters keep pulp (short) fiction alive | EW.com: "The short stories in places like The New Yorker can be lovely, evocative pieces — but they don’t usually involve an insanely jealous trapeze artist or a serial killer escaping from the back of an FBI agent’s sedan during an earthquake. That’s a pity. But pulpy, plot-driven tales about circus artists and killers (and killer circus artists) are the main offering at Popcorn Fiction, a month-old literary site where a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters are trying to revive a languishing genre, one story at a time. As with most anthologies, the stories are a mixed bag. But early highlights include “Lightning in a Bottle,” a variation on the old saw about a jazz musician (this time a drummer) who sells his soul to a mysterious stranger for the perfect jam, by Craig Mazin (a co-writer of Scary Movie 3 and 4), and “A Best Friend Named Rick,” about a newly sprung ex-con struggling to stay straight, by Nichelle D. Tramble (a story editor on the NBC drama Mercy)."

Seeing the Future: Can Religion Evolve and Survive in a Changing World? | Religion & Theology | ReligionDispatches

Seeing the Future: Can Religion Evolve and Survive in a Changing World? | Religion & Theology | ReligionDispatches: "Since the fall of Secularization Theory, which claimed that belief in God would slowly recede in the face of science and technology, we still must ask: Is there a future for formal, organized, institutionalized religion as we presently recognize it in rapidly globalizing, postindustrial and postmodern world? Here's what religion will have to do for humans to survive and flourish."