Serials
Vian Andrews is out in the olive orchards, clearing brush from under the trees and thinking about ChatGPT and the future of artificial and other kinds of intelligence. The latest passage from Andrews’ journal about life in the Umbrian countryside, “Scribbles from Italy.”
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A tour through the history of writing. From David Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger.” Time for a second look.
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Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
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Brian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
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Vian Andrews hiking and thinking in the Umbrian countryside, amid olive groves in the rain and “sentieri” paths between mountain hamlets.
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Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
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Brian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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Vian Andrews’ dispatches from the Umbrian countryside welcome the light and rage against its dying.
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Canadian writer Vian Andrews and his wife moved from Vancouver to Umbria in Italy. Here are his “scribbles” from a new place in the world.
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