Links and Recommended Reading

Infrequently updated.

Poetry
Nuyorican Poets Cafe – An iconic New York poetry club
The Connecticut Poetry Society
Palette Poetry
Frontier Poetry
L’Éphémère Review


Literature and Literary Criticism

Authors and Artists
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1977 Interview with the Paris Review.

Philosophy
“The Myth of Rational Thinking” – Interview with Justin E.H. Smith (Vox)
History of Science Society (University of Chicago) – Publishes Isis and Osiris
“Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference” – Olúfémi O. Táíwò
The Philosopher – Journal of the Philosophical Society of England
Scientific Objectivity – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A Rare Interview with Jürgen Habermas (Financial Times)

Science & Tech
Harvard Health Publishing
The Moral Machine – Project for gathering perspectives on human decisions for moral decisions made for machine intelligence (like self-driving cars)
Narrative research and the challenge of accumulating knowledge,” Ruthellen Josselson reflects on critical theory and extrapolating “facts” from narrative research (free PDF)
Wigner’s Friend and Various Perspectives on the Quantum Measurement Problem Explained – Scientific American

Naturalism/Environment
The University of Connecticut Plant Biodiversity Conservatory
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Museum of Science, Boston
Connecticut Forest and Park Association (and the James L. Goodwin Forest Conservation Education Center)
Appalachian Trail Conservancy


Culture and Cultural Criticism/Humor
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
The Boston Musical Intelligencer’s Classical Music Calendar
Philip Glass Official Website
The New Yorker
The New York Philharmonic
“What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?” – Constance Grady on “separating art from artist.”
The Julius Eastman Project – Mary Jane Leach’s effort to preserve the legacy of the black, gay minimalist composer
Caroline Shaw – Official website for the composer and violist

Media
Friedrich Nietzsche – Lieder/Piano Works/Melodrama
Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) Streaming Service
Doctor Who News – Unofficial news source on the world’s longest-running sci-fi series
Julius Eastman’s “Femenine” (sic) – ECHOI Ensemble