Publish Yourself
Rachel Maddow is not a literary snob, but she made a strangely dismissive comment about self-published authors in a recent show. She associated them with political hacks. Describing the Republican … Read More
Author: Larry Joseph Calloway
I am a writer. I love the Rocky Mountain West. For more than 50 years my primary residence has been in the upper basin of the Rio Grande.
One Nation
Under One Party
DEMOCRACY was not actually “on the ballot” in 2024. That was just a metaphor by media professionals who have lunch together in NewYork and pass around plates of platitudes. Today’s … Read More
The Best Democracy
(That Money Can Buy)
The current era of liar’s democracy began innocently enough when President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, a leading Madison Avenue advertising agency, to beef up his … Read More
South High From South Park
p.c., LDS, and me
By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY In late August of the saddest summer, speeding through the emptiness of Colorado’s South Park on the way to Denver to see “The Book … Read More
Stranger In A Strange Car
New People In Old Santa Fe
Toward the end of my New Mexico journalistic career, I had a run-in with a celebrity driving a gold Land Rover – gold! I was backing my old Toyota coop … Read More
On Karma
Thich Nhat Hanh Other Buddhists
INTRO: One of the few Hindu beliefs that Buddhism carried from northern India in its migration throughout Asia (and the world) was Karma. It was based on the observation that … Read More
Trinity
5:30 A.M. July 16, 1945
(Some notes on Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer:” The re-enactment of the Trinity test setup in the unpopulated desert west of Alamogordo, NM, is true to life in my opinion, … Read More
Trinity Site
David Hawkins played out there as a kid
As a kid at La Luz, said the beloved MacArthur Prize philosopher, “We wandered all over the Tularosa Basin, one way or another, looking for minerals, looking for excitement, looking for rattlesnakes.”
Hiroshima
Peace Park messengers
They were teenagers from Japan, summer students at the Shumei Institute near my home. It was the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender ending World War II. They gave me paper cranes.
English As A Second Language
November, 1902
The chairman of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on statehood got off the train, rode around Las Vegas and asked why all the market signs were in Spanish.