'/> Uncommon Hours: November 2018
Blogging on culture, politics, and the environment since 2008.

Monday, November 12, 2018

Disarming Armistice Day / Truthout

My op-ed on Armistice Day in Truthout … 

"These days might better serve us, and those whom we mean to honor, by meditating on needless sacrifice, needless wars, opportunities lost, the reality of war’s awfulness, as those at the first Remembrance Day did."



Visit Fomite Press for more on my new book, Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

'Losing Francis brings memory to lyrical life' - a new review

Chicago writer Lew Rosenbaum has posted a new review of Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home at the Chicago Labor and Arts Festival Blog, which he also edits.

Read his review here: "Thank You for Your Service"