An Interview with Spanish Artist/Author Ibai Canales Benito
By Tamara Wilhite
I had the opportunity to interview Spanish comic book artist and author Ibai Canales Benito. He has contributed to horror comics like Necromancer: Tombstone Blues, CU Next Tuesday, and Iron Sights. He’s also helped create sci-fi comics like The Abductables and Decimators.
America Vanquished
A New Poem
By Michael Finch
In 2021 Liberty Island is going to start publishing poetry more regularly. Interested in participating? Click here to contact us.
NEW BOOK REVIEW: Not Okay, Boomer
Helen Andrews displays the Baby Boomers’ failures for the world to see.
By Chris Queen
For years I’ve lamented the Baby Boomers’ hold on politics and culture. I was arguing for my generation – Generation X – to have a shot at the presidency before the 2012 election, and it’s easy to look back at the last five presidential terms to see what Baby Boomers in power have given us.
The Boomers have also given us the sexual revolution, rebellion for its own sake, and declining church attendance and religious adherence. The “do what makes you happy” ethos of the Boomer generation has led to countless ruined lives in the pursuit of selfishness.
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to paint all Boomers with too broad a brush. My mom is a Baby Boomer who didn’t fall into the trap that Boomers in power seemed to (I just found out that my late father doesn’t qualify as a Boomer because he was born one year too early), and I have plenty of family members and friends who seem to have their heads on straight.
For years, the Baby Boom generation was the most idealistic group of people. Think of the hippies and the earnest middle-aged politicians who sought to transform the world. Did they? Yes, but not in ways that you’d think.
Writer Helen Andrews eviscerates the liberal Boomers in her new book Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. It’s a quick read – or listen, in my case, since I bought the Audible edition. Andrews takes the tack of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians and profiled a set of prominent Boomers to peek into the legacy that this generation left on the world.
A Bizarre Omen Today of What 2021 Promises…
When a Book and a Few Bucks Find You By Divine Providence
By David M. Swindle
So it was around 7:45 AM this morning, just over an hour until Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, when I set off on the morning walk with Maura, our 10-year-old Siberian Husky who remains very healthy, happy, energetic, and full of love.
Our nation’s pageantry was happening on the other side of the continent in Washington D.C., and it played on the TV when we departed, a bit earlier than usual but Maura had requested it then and I could think of no reason not to comply.
An Interview with Theatre Director and Playwright Robert Cooperman
By Tamara Wilhite
Robert Cooperman is the founder and president of Stage Right Theatrics. Stage Right Theatrics is a non-profit theater dedicated to promoting conservative-themed plays and artists. They present the annual Conservative Theatre Festival®, as well as produce original plays with conservative/traditional points of view.
Those Words That I Said
By Jamie Glazov
In 2021 Liberty Island is going to start publishing poetry more regularly. Interested in participating? Click here to contact us. We begin with this new offering from longtime LI poetry contributor Jamie Glazov.
Understanding Your Options for the Upcoming Dragon Awards
By Tamara Wilhite
By Tamara Wilhite and Declan Finn
What Are the Dragon Awards?
The Dragon Awards are a set of literary awards voted on by fandom. They’re presented at Dragon Con, a convention typically held in Atlanta, Georgia over Labor Day weekend. The Dragon Awards were first awarded in 2016. It has become one of the largest multi-media and pop culture conventions in the United States.
NEW ESSAY: People in Boxes
By Jamie K. Wilson
It has been a little more than 18 years since my husband proposed to me in perhaps the least romantic way possible. But that’s not the story.
We are gamers and science fiction fans, which, as anyone who knows that segment of the population will attest, tend to be WOKE. And most of our friends were indeed Woke (the few exceptions were ex-Marines) and young. This means chaotic lifestyles, lots of partner switching, lots of atypical pairings – or triadings, if that’s a word. I knew three different MMF relationships, and there were always sleeping-around dramas going on somewhere.
In other words, our crowd were not the most maritally stable of people.
