
Modern Odyssey Books is an independent press publishing original literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The press also publishes curated anthologies of public domain works and the literature-inspired In Search of... series.
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| Issues | 51 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Back in the 70s, the artist David Hockney read a poem by Wallace Stevens written in the 30s that is said to have been based on a painting by Picasso around 1903. The poem was titled The Man with the Blue Guitar.
Let’s start with Hockney. H...
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Until this morning, I honored a decree I set down a few months ago to close down this Substack. It was a reaction to the countless stories of noise and distraction, the consumption of our time, the distract...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the experience of reading. I’m pulled to a few thoughts articulated by others. The first is Edmund Wilson, and he said:
No two persons ever read the same book.
It makes...
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There is a quote you’ve probably seen traveling on the internet:
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
We nod when we read it. Of course! Yes! That’s...
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There is a thought often attributed to Albert Einstein that divides life into two possibilities:
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as thoug...
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Modern Odyssey Books is an independent publisher. We publish literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and short story collections. We also produce literature-inspired puzzle books.
Writer and publisher of Modern Odyssey Books. Things I love: a long walk to the Dreiländerbrücke, the poetry of Lisel Mueller, arriving at the port of Sifnos, a salty olive, Tom.
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