For nearly 20 years, starting with 2003, when Google became widely used as a search engine, I would notice that any search result for “Richard Crasta” resulted in hardly one or two results other than me. So that my very name itself, being so unique, was my identification card. If anyone claiming to be me,…
As the years whiz by, my energy level declines, and I come across many unpublished or unfinished books in my computer–books I had been distracted from completion or publishing by the unexpected events of life, one that saw me going from New York to Bali, then Java, then India repeatedly to see my sick mother,…
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix This quote from Jimi Hendrix , which I read after listening to bombs dropping and planes crashing in Jimi’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is appropriate as the U.S. inches close to triggering a global nuclear apocalypse….
The 2024 Presidential election is the most interesting and engrossing election I have ever been through in my life, and part of the reason, for me, is that I would like to at least be alive for four more years–which is at least how long it would take to complete and publish my remaining books,…
I feel great compassion for anyone suffering from a mental disease, or a mental breakdown or deterioration, because it’s usually not their fault. My father suffered PTSD as a result of his nearly three years of being a Prisoner of War of the Japanese during World War II–his memoir is titled Eaten by the Japanese–and…
[Post-dated addition: This blog post was written before thousands of brave and conscientious students of the United States (including students from Columbia, where I did my MFA (I have written about that experience in my book The Killing of an Author), community leaders and activists around the world, and many conscientious Jews including the astonishingly…
Here it goes, the Top Ten plus a few songs of the Master (that mind-blowing genius called Bob Dylan) that have most moved me, or that I can sing along with, or that make me laugh. Because it’s so hard to choose only ten, I may add a few more, as part of a shortlist…
In 2010, after a bad experiences with a “regular” publisher, I was seduced by the promise of total freedom and instant publication on Amazon (and a handful of its competitors), possibly allowing me to write and publish much, much more. Much has changed since those early days. While Jeff Bezos’s net worth has shot up…
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