California Literary Review

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Articles written for the California Literary Review:

• Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
  Posted on 29 Aug 2007 in Mathematics, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  “The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by placing a rectangle around the Parthenon (Athens, Greece) and the United Nations building (New York), as well as at the doors of the Cathedral of Chartres (France). Let’s not forget that the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. must contain the golden ratio as do all regular pentagons.”

• Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen
  Posted on 01 Aug 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, Religion
  

  “By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human being that have not been generally developed in western educational practices and culture but are nevertheless quite real. It was Abraham Maslow who gave the Esalen actors a vocabulary and psychology to express how such potentialities might be actualized.”

• A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
  Posted on 27 Jun 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
  

  “That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform a society more or less overnight, and in the process “jumpstart democracy” in the entire Middle East—was a colossal act of hubris. And it was essentially a Roman act. It was undertaken with America-centric motives, and with little understanding of the people on the receiving end, or of their ability to oppose us. Those haunting words from Velleius—’as if on a picnic’—pretty much sum up our approach to this and to too many other things.”

• Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
  Posted on 15 Jun 2007 in Environment, Nature, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  “I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting with lead bullets. Saving condors may benefit us more than we ever imagined.”

• T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
  Posted on 15 Jun 2007 in African American, Music, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  “The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics I explore in the book–which is essentially that women are disposable, exchangeable, throwaway commodities to charismatic males who bond around keeping them “down” or in their place.”

• An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
  Posted on 15 Jun 2007 in Architecture, Art & Design
  

  “I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems to have believed deeply in the idea that humankind is perfectible, and that architecture could play a role in that.”

• An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
  Posted on 13 Jun 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Sports
  

  “One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice. Pete could stay on the court longer than other kids. Much longer.”

• Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
  Posted on 13 Jun 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Psychology
  

  “When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear of being trapped or isolated.”

• Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
  Posted on 05 Jun 2007 in Death, Environment, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  “Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as a de facto landfill of hazardous wastes and non-biodegradable materials.”

• An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White
  Posted on 03 Apr 2007 in Fiction Reviews, Thrillers, Writers
  

  “When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book, I had no intent, conception, premonition, or clue that I was creating characters that would endure for over a dozen books.”