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under difficulties semi colon: Cockroach Typewriting
A typing cockroach: a thinly veiled analogy for the people that filled the columns of the newspapers of modernity.
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Gravedigger: An Autobiographical Fragment
Being a writer might not pay better than digging graves, but at least computers don’t burn diesel.
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Writers of the World, Unclench: On Public Licensing
A five-point digital publishing manifesto about the benefits of public licensing systems like Creative Commons for writers.
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Ruby Slippers and Yellow Brick Roads
Was L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz an allegory describing William Jennings Bryan and the Free Silver Movement? The argument hinges on the fact that in the book, Dorothy’s slippers are silver, not ruby.
