Sun, Mar 9th, 2008
Update: As he commented here, Jonathan Fields has dropped the contest mentioned below so as to avoid the appearance of exploitation. I applaud him for that move, and apologize if my post implied that his intentions were less than honest. He’s clearly a stand-up guy who intends to do the right thing by creative-types.
Today, […]
Sun, Feb 10th, 2008
In advance of our work on the 2nd edition of Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, Jenna and I decided to resurrect our old blog, veganfreaks.org. After about a year of neglect, we decided that we should get back into the swing of posting over there.
You’ll notice that we’ve disabled comments; we found […]
Sat, Jan 26th, 2008
Chief finding in the study: people aren’t reading like they used to. The biggest declines come with the younger readers, with Americans aged 15-24 spending just 7 minutes daily reading, on average. Related to this decline are piss-poor results for reading scores. According to the report, “reading scores for 12th-grade readers fell significantly from 1992 […]
Wed, Dec 5th, 2007
Much hype and even more hand-wringing has been thrust in the direction of Amazon’s new ebook reader, the Kindle. In case you’ve been too busy blowing money on holiday shopping to know, the Kindle is a kind of ugly, 80s-looking little device that uses an ink-based technology to provide what many see as a more […]
Sun, Nov 4th, 2007
Just got my copies of Making A Killing. Looks pretty good if I do say so myself
Sat, Oct 13th, 2007
Somehow, stupidly, I’ve decided to take a plunge at National Novel Writing Month this coming November. Why? Because I have a million things to do. Because I’m chairing two national job search committees at work, and that’s not taking enough of my free time. Because I’m co-editing another book on nanotechnology at the same time. […]
Wed, Jul 25th, 2007
This is simultaneously scary and exciting.
Wed, Jul 11th, 2007
Today, I received an email from the anonymous author of a blog called Moses and Mohammed: racist, genocidal scum.1 The email was not about atheism, which seems to be the main focus of the blog. Instead, the author read our book Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-vegan World and had some fairly boilerplate responses […]
Tue, Jun 26th, 2007
One of the great things about writing books is that people can anonymously review them on Amazon.com. I don’t often make a habit of reading the reviews, but every so often, when I feel like donning a hair shirt, or hitting myself about the head with a board, or otherwise reminding myself of my corporeal […]
Thu, Jun 21st, 2007
This morning, my writing time consisted mostly of me hacking and slashing through a section of my book in which I discuss how large-scale organizations like PETA and others encourage people to purchase their activism on a member/donor model rather than empowering people to do things on their own. Then, I remembered that the article […]
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I am an assistant professor of sociology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, USA. I hold a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Agricultural Science from Penn State, and my MS and PhD are from Cornell University in Development Sociology.
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Being vegan in a non-vegan world
An informative and practical guide on veganism written with my wife Jenna.