Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.
I wrote The Wonder Paradox (FSG), Doubt: A History (Harper), Stay (Yale), Who Said (Copper Canyon), etc. PhD Columbia Univ. History of Science and Culture. Published in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc., appeared on Hardball, NPR, etc.
a tiny ritual & poetry review by writer and somatic creative coach, emily brandt, delivered at each full moon