Already, in just five days, The Pocket Review has received quite a few submissions—and we couldn't be happier. In the next few days, probably by Friday this week, we will announce the hard-line staff of Pocket, too. That means the managing editor, the fiction editor, and the poetry editor, for starters. If anyone wants to be considered for a position at the journal, of course, all you have to do it fill out the Volunteer form on the Contact Us page.
A few days ago I downloaded Walden on my Kindle 2. I did this mostly because I thought it would be funny, not to mention ironic, and because I hadn't read much Henry David Thoreau. You can download Walden and Other Writings for a paltry $3.96. Using this book, I tried out the text-to-speech feature on the Kindle 2. I have to say, despite my misgivings, the voice worked pretty well. It gave me one error, which wasn't much of a problem, and it was a robot voice, straight out of Terminator, but, hey, still.
Andrew Paul Jackson's Grigori Efimovich: The Memory of Liars premieres this month at the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts. The one-act opera, on which I served as librettist, details the shaky connections between Felix Yusupov, a bumbling traitor to Russia's last Tsar, and his co-conspirators in the death of Rasputin. The monk from Siberia, Grigori Efimovich, has been called a sexual deviant, the devil incarnate, and the downfall of imperialist Russia. He was also a father, a mystic, and the beloved guardian of Alexei, the Tsarevich, a sickly boy and the heir to the throne of the Russian Empire.
Andrew Paul Jackson's Grigori Efimovich: The Memory of Liars premieres this month at the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts. The one-act opera, on which I served as librettist, details the shaky connections between Felix Yusupov, a bumbling traitor to Russia's last Tsar, and his co-conspirators in the death of Rasputin. The monk from Siberia, Grigori Efimovich, has been called a sexual deviant, the devil incarnate, and the downfall of imperialist Russia. He was also a father, a mystic, and the beloved guardian of Alexei, the Tsarevich, a sickly boy and the heir to the throne of the Russian Empire.