The Dharma and Cult of Bhagavan Das: An interview by Lee Bob Black

Bhagavan Das is a performer of traditional and non-traditional Indian bhajans and kirtans, a counter-cultural icon, and a yogi who lived for many years as a wandering ascetic in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. He was a…

Elliott Holt and Marie-Helene Bertino Interview

Authors Elliott Holt and Marie-Helene Bertino discuss the roles that dogs, Twitter, grad school, depression, and Christmas Eve have played in their creative processes.

When Numbers Become the Narrative: Lee Bob Black Interviews Christian Rudder, Author of Dataclysm

Katherine Hill and Alissa Nutting Interview

Katherine Hill and Alissa Nutting discuss their debut novels, slow writing, wonderful monsters, the pain of aging, exploitative TV, and knowing the end of the novel you’re writing before you get there.

Shabnam Piryaei: “If I don’t write, I start to disappear”

Lee Bob Black interviews Shabnam Piryaei.

Keith Olbermann’s “The Closer” and “The Resistance” have been viewed almost 170 million times on GQ’s YouTube and Facebook

I was clicking around GQ’s YouTube channel, and I couldn’t easily figure out how many total views Keith Olbermann’s videos…

Hope Amidst Sociocide: An Interview with Michael Otterman

Lee Bob Black interviews the author of Erasing Iraq.

By the time Michael Otterman’s book, Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage, came out in 2010, hundreds of…

Trump By the Numbers: An Analysis of Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign Website, DonaldJTrump.com

In June 2016, I analyzed DonaldJTrump.com. Some of the statistics I uncovered are unsurprising, while others are rather fascinating. Here they are.

Laura Hemphill and Nancy Mauro Interview

Novelists Laura Hemphill and Nancy Mauro discuss the trials of working in advertising and on Wall Street, career changes, and the invention of a now famous (in northern Ontario) donut called the Persian.

Tishon Woolcock and Caits Meissner Interview

Poets Tishon Woolcock and Caits Meissner discuss their book The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, celebrating Jersey, lost babies, real women, writing poems to your favorite poets, pink hair, murdered friends, women as sacred holders of earth…