James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

Cover Reveal: The Night I Prayed to Elvis

Author Thrilled to Present Long-Gestating Story Collection Much more to say on these stories later, but for now, here’s the cover (and here, posts from the past regarding this material. These characters and situations are “near and dear” to the heart around the bustling world HQ of venerable Mind Harvest Press, so knowing the work […]

Quote of the Day

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they* don’t have to worry about the answers.” —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow *THEY = The Hierarchy Enslaving You

If You See Her, Say Hello

Another Lament for a Lost Loved One Those of you who have frequented this blog long enough to have read this harrowing post, or my novel Mansion of High Ghosts, may recall of the terrible tragedy which befell the occupants of my automobile way back in 1987. This remains the singular life-changing event of my […]

Quote of the Day

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Quote of the Day: Herman Hesse

Ironically Unreal Once Forever: Poetry

Local Author Rolls Out His First Poetry Collection Back in 2019, I reached a personal creative crossroads. (In some ways I’m still not far beyond that point.) The third in the Dixiana series had been finished, edited and final-proofed; I dropped all three big novels on the world that year, a seasonal effort, one which […]

Peace, Rhododendron

Indie Publisher and Local Author Celebrates Release of New Poetry Collection Mind Harvest Press is thrilled to present Peace, Rhododendron, the first collection of poetry by Elizabeth Leverton. A Columba, SC, all-around artist, Leverton paints (that’s her work on the cover), she writes, she edits, she’s a graphic designer. All of us here at the […]

C. S. Lewis on the Technocratic Oligarchy

In this an excerpt from a newspaper column by C. S. Lewis, first published in 1958 and later included in a collection called God In The Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, the reader is forced to confront the prospect that extremely limited freedom awaits us in a world run as a technocratic welfare state.

Another Poem of the Day

A second offering from Kenneth Patchen This one is a fragment of a much longer block of information, almost like an incantatory text. A certain portion of Patchen’s work could be described as downright apocalyptic, including this excerpt:

Poem of the Day: Kenneth Patchen

A New Series Highlighting Interesting Poetry The year started out with me having taken a break from poetry, both reading and writing it. For months my eyes belonged almost solely to Henry Miller, as I finally found time to get through The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy as well as the other, lesser know works like Big […]