A few years ago, I dated a man who had been wrongfully imprisoned in a secret U.S. detention camp in Iraq. He’d been accused of terrorism by a co-worker, and then held and tortured for months by U.S. government employees, part of a protocol under the so-called war on terror. A United States citizen, ex-Marine, …
Author Archives: JR Pomerantz
I bet deathbed research is skewed
I haunt Twitter in my spare time these days like the ghost of procrastinating writers, and something I’ve noticed that pops up every few days or so is a tweet about people on their deathbeds. I bet deathbed research is skewed. For one, who is affording death beds and living to be an old age …
Corporate Torsos Need Not Apply
Corporate Torsos Need Not Apply imagines a future world in which the mid-Atlantic states of America—namely, “Nu” York and “Nu” Jersey—survive in soggy, paradigm-shifted fashion after a calamitous “Flood” some 18 years ago (or was it 19?). No one can remember, which is a clue. To stay safe after the deluge, inhabitants have had to …
Where’d your books go, JR Pomerantz?
My books are briefly off the market, but when they come back, they’ll have multiplied…
Happy Pi Day!
For those of you who may not celebrate Pi Day, or love eating pie but know little about its celebrated homonym, Pi, here’s the lowdown: The symbol for Pi is π. Pi is a mathematical constant that describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It is equal to 22/7 or approximately 3.14159265. …
