Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century by O'Neill, Susan Kramer

Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935925330)

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Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century by O'Neill, Susan Kramer

Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century

$10.00
Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century by O'Neill, Susan Kramer

Calling New Delhi for Free: and other ephemeral truths of the 21st century

$10.00
Format: Paperback
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Technology first rocked our world when a lightning bolt zapped a bush at the entrance to a cave, and First Man crawled out and stuck his hand into the mystical blaze. Centuries later, we still find technology fascinating, mysterious, distracting, vital and Wow Shiny --and it still fries our grasping, hapless human hands, not to mention our grasping, hapless human brains. These short essays are all about that tender point where the finger meets the flame, where the ecstasy and the pain live--and where the sweet, dark humor so often lurks. Most of them simply examine the craziness of everyday life. Some spring from weird travel experiences. Some pick at politics, niggle at religion, worry at war. They're set in Starbucks, in my kitchen, in Viet Nam, in India, on a Russian train and a Greyhound bus; in Massachusetts, Indiana, Brooklyn and Times Square; in WalMart and Golden Corral, and at the second inauguration of Barack Obama. All have been published somewhere before. In all the pieces, there is a tie to technology, be it as strong as an anchor cable, or as tenuous as a spiderweb. This gives me a lot of leeway--because what, in this modern world, *isn't* tied to technology? A final disclaimer: you certainly don't have to be tech savvy to enjoy this book. You just have to be a human being with bandaids on your fingers. Which pretty much describes us all.

Author: Susan Kramer O'Neill
ISBN-10: 1935925334
ISBN-13: 9781935925330
Publisher: Peace Corps Writers
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2013
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.30d
By Susan Kramer O'Neill
By Susan Kramer O'Neill
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Susan O'Neill is the author of Don't Mean Nothing (Ballantine 2001; UMass Press 2004; Serving House Books 2010), a collection of short stories based loosely on her hitch as an Army Nurse in Viet Nam. She has edited Vestal Review (http: //vestalreview.net), an ezine/print literary journal for flash fiction, since it began, literally at the turn of the century. Her stories and essays have appeared on line and in print, in commercial and literary magazines, professional journals, Spoken Word zines and, in the Old Days, in real newsprint. She has worked as a reporter, a freelance writer, an RN, a storyteller, an envelope-stuffer, and a wedding singer. Her more-or-less monthly essays, under the heading Off the Matrix, can be found on http: //peacecorpsworldwide.org/, and she wastes a shameful amount of time on Facebook and Twitter (@oneill_susan)

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