New Story: A Killing In Kind

This week I have a new story up in the third issue of “Fiction Vale”, a very promising new ezine which may have what it takes to last in a crowded and competitive field. The magazine is not free; costs four dollars per issue. It can be downloaded to a Kindle, or most other ‘smart’ devices, including probably your cell phone. You can also read the magazine on your computer, though you first may have to do what I did, visit Amazon and download their free Kindle application. (I have a Kindle, but prefer the much larger computer screen.) I encourage all you devoted Joseph Green fans to buy this issue, not only to read my story but all the others. And help a relatively new worthwhile ezine that is just getting its sealegs. 

On arrival you can learn a great deal about "FictionVale" before  deciding whether or not to buy. Scroll down past the intro material to the list of contributors, and you will see my devilishly handso -- smiling face. In addition to a short bio, each entry has a link to another site or individual blog where the writer can promote himself. Following the list of contributors, they provide a lot of information on the magazine and future plans. It looks to be an interesting venture, and I hope it succeeds.

Two other items of strong interest caught my attention this week. One was on the belated credit being given to Henry Miller, an important but neglected figure in American literature (in my not-too-humble opinion). At first dismissed as just another pornographer, his novels were not allowed into the USA until after Bennett Cerf led the eventually successful fight to get James Joyce’s Ulysses  past the censors (in its thousand-plus pages this great novel included a single appearance of the word ‘fuck’. ) The movie “Henry and June”, which I remember as being quite popular, probably did more to revive Henry Miller’s reputation than any number of book reviews.

The second item I found interesting on Huffpost (and if you are of the liberal/progressive persuasion and don’t subscribe to the free Huffpost, you are missing a lot. Arianna Huffington is one of the few celebrities of whom I know who began her public life as a conservative, then  had the intelligence and moral conscience to morph into a progressive). This one covers a study that seems to establish as fact what I perhaps already dimly sensed – that someone who gets up in the morning with some purpose in mind, the desire to accomplish something he or she deems worthwhile, betters his chances of staying alive. Something to think about, especially if you are retired and have allowed your life to become aimless and without purpose. 

Until next week, and more useless (but I hope interesting) meanderings.