Highlights from my new Writer Website: ajayadler.com

“I, the restless one; the circler of circles; Herdsman and roper of stars”

Ajax and Achilles playing dice.

My new writer website should be live in the next couple of days. Lots of work, all by me, so, being a only modestly experienced amateur at the work . . . it took time. ajayadler.com replaces thesadredearth.com, the evolution of my old blog into an ersatz writer website, which has been inadequate in multiple ways. In anticipation, I thought I’d offer just a few highlights.

1.     Literizing History

2.     Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp, and “Bordello Rooms”

3.   “La Habana Nueva”: “In the new Havana / which is the old Havana / but older”

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In 2015, I was a featured writer in the first volume of Footnote, a Literary Journal of History. It was a compendium of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, reportage, and richly imagined history in which writers applied all their literary talents to the treatment of the storied past. Among multiple contributions as part of my feature were almost all those genres. Leah Angstrom, writer and indefatigable publisher and edit…