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A Relational Model for World Peace 1 Jan 6:20 AM (4 months ago)

Dear reader: I wrote this for World BEYOND War, where I’m director of technology. While this isn’t about me, it feels like one of the most personal things I’ve ever written, because I had to dig deep and work hard to try to explain my most elusive beliefs about … Read the rest

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A Taste For Change 14 Dec 2024 2:40 PM (4 months ago)

I threw the I Ching for America the other day.

This is a good spiritual practice when you come to a moment in your life when things are changing fast and you want to get a grip on what’s happening. My own version of this ancient Chinese tradition is quite … Read the rest

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A Levitation With Ed Sanders (on the World Beyond War Podcast) 28 Oct 2024 5:56 PM (6 months ago)

“Out demons out!” I don’t know why it’s feels so cathartic to me every time I listen to the recording on the 1968 Fugs album “Tenderness Junction” of a historic event a year before, the exorcism and attempted levitation of the Pentagon in USA’s capital city by a determined group … Read the rest

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About A Flute: An Enlightenment Opera 17 Sep 2024 11:20 AM (7 months ago)

A new episode of “Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera” just dropped! It’s about Die Zauberflote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder, and this one was a long time coming. I’ve rarely struggled so hard to produce a single podcast episode, or a single blog post.

It was a struggle … Read the rest

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A Coder’s Long Quest: My Washington DC Years 19 Jul 2024 11:27 AM (9 months ago)

I started publishing my memoir here on Litkicks 15 years ago. I wrote one new chapter a week for 53 weeks, covering the years 1993 to 2003 when I was a first-generation website developer participating in an amazing worldwide software revolution from inside the skyscrapers of Manhattan and my home … Read the rest

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Mockingjays on Morningside 21 May 2024 5:19 AM (11 months ago)

I was already thinking about Columbia University, where courageous students are calling out the college administration’s support for genocide in Gaza, when I heard Paul Auster had died of cancer at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn. Paul Auster was widely celebrated as a Brooklyn writer from … Read the rest

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Chronicles of the Malediction [two podcasts] 8 Jan 2024 10:30 AM (last year)

I spent the final days of 2023 desperately scrambling to complete two episodes for the two podcasts that represent the clashing sides of my brain.

I was possessed by a superstitious idea that I needed to launch both episodes before 2024 began – a superstition I probably manufactured as a … Read the rest

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A Hostage for Peace: When I Met Judih at the Bowery Poetry Club 20 Oct 2023 11:48 AM (last year)

Judih Weinstein Haggai, a huge-hearted haiku poet, teacher, mother, grandmother and longtime friend of Literary Kicks, has been missing since October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the border of Gaza where she lived with her husband Gad. We have been waiting since that terrible day in hope that Judih … Read the rest

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What I’m Talking About: Sartre, Ishiguro, Rumi 23 Jun 2023 12:03 PM (last year)

A weird thought occurs to me, as the summer of 2023 rolls in: Literary Kicks turns 29 years old this July.

Which can only mean we’ll be having a 30th birthday next year, and I guess I’ll have to think of some way to celebrate. What is Literary Kicks, as … Read the rest

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Lost Music Is Back! And So Is Live Theatre! Talking To An Influential Fairy 12 May 2023 12:53 PM (last year)

I’m thrilled to announce that “Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera” is back! Season 4 of this podcast kicks off with an interview with singer and actress Casey Keeler, who played the Fairy Queen in a concert production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe” … Read the rest

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