Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Reliance vs. Shamrock III

Reliance (l) & Shamrock III (r) begin the race for the America's Cup, 1903

 


Reliance, the American yacht, would win. Please click HERE for a high resolution image.

Friday, May 20, 2022

Professor Hodges' Global Appeal

My good friend and International Authors colleague, Horace Jeffery Hodges recently launched a global appeal to fill the libraries of the world with copies of Emanations, International Authors' somewhat-annual anthology of poetry, fiction, art and essays.

Please click HERE to learn further details of Professor Hodges' initiative.

Professor Hodges in the field.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Emanations Volumes I through IX at Kent State University Library Special Collections

Emanations vols. I-IX are now part of the Special Collections archive at the Kent State University Library.

I would like to thank Professor Mack Hassler for sponsoring this acquisition... and for being such a good friend to International Authors!

And thanks also to Professor Cara Gilgenbach, Head, Special Collections & Archives; Acting University Archivist, who does such terrific work with the library, and who kept us informed as the books went into the collection.
 
Please click HERE to view the list of Emanations at KentLink (Kent Special Collections).
 
 
Mack Hassler
Cara Gilgenbach

Friday, May 13, 2022

Highbrow Advice from Bertrand Russell

 

"I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral: The intellectual thing, I should want to say to them, is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only "what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out?" Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think could have beneficial social effects, if it were believed. But look only and solely at: "What are the facts?" That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say. The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say: Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact, that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."