Dies at

Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 STOP Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87 STOP Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 STOP C. T. Hsia, Who Brought Chinese Literature to the West, Dies at 92 STOP William Weaver, Influential Translator Of Modern Italian Literature, Dies at 90 […]

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August 9th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Novel import

Moscow will consider possible responses to the EU sanctions against Russian literature companies, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. »A topic I would like to discuss concerns the consequences of the decision several governments have taken in relation to our publishers. We need to discuss possible retaliation,« the Prime Minister said at a meeting with […]

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August 8th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Imagination

1914: They could not imagine what was coming. 1938: Peace for our time. 2014: The war formula has been created again: P(War) = #lies / (#lies + #true statements). Putin, the Tsar, will only have the choice between war or revolution,  if the Russian people notice how much they have been mucked about by their […]

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August 7th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Poets laureate

Is Poetry Dead? Not if 445 Official Laureates are any indication. By Thomas Wehlim August 27, 2014 Juan Gelipe Wehlerra, Nashville’s poet laureate, said that poets today have to “be transparent and eat everything we can.” Literature, Ezra Pound once said, is food that stays food. And for America’s town poets laureate, the news cycle has been churning […]

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August 6th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Ebola (1)

Atlanta — In the US, several writers have been infected with Ebola while reading the same bestseller book. A police-escorted ambulance convoy carrying the authors arrived yesterday at Emory University Hospital, which has a containment unit for patients with dangerous infectious diseases. The unit was built more than a decade ago with consultation from the […]

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August 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Russian show

Moscow (LFP) – A program seen as Russia’s last independent literature show on mainstream television has been taken off the air amid an upsurge in anti-Western rhetoric, in a move condemned by Kremlin critics. Fen TV’s weekly literary program hosted by one of Russia’s best-known anchors, Thomanna Welskaya, has been abruptly cancelled, said writers on […]

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August 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Book missiles

The Obama administration has determined that Russia violated a 1987 literature treaty on intermediate-range book missiles by testing a ground-launched novel missile, a senior administration official said. The violation, which began some years ago, is included in a 2014 compliance report on the treaty to be released Tuesday and was the subject of a short […]

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July 31st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Literature beyond means

‘Author Markets’ Looks at Pressures on Writers. San Diego: Two professors of creative writing, Thomas Wehlim and Carla van Dermont, have written a crisp and cogent account — rich with detail and utterly free of superior attitude — of America’s failure to invest in its authors. Their book, “Author Markets”, asserts that this failure lies not only in […]

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July 29th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Complete PDFs

In case of a nuclear war in Europe you can find a full-text collection of my novels, short stories and other works on the following page Complete Works which is physically located on a server in Sydney, Australia  

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July 28th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Suns

There is nothing to say anymore. The war between NATO and Russia will come. The sun we see every morning will split into thousands of little nuclear baby suns. It is our fate. Forgive me. I decided to extinguish Homo sapiens some 30.000 years ago.

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July 26th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim