Footprints in the Firmament is on sale now!
Fresh boxes of both softcovers and hardcovers arrived today. If you d like a signed, personalized copy of my new short fiction treasury, Footprints in the Continue reading
Brad R. Torgersen
Author. Essayist. Veteran.
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The persistence of belief and certainty
Long thought. Don t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue reading
There once was a box van in France
There once was a box van in France. The box van sat idle on the rental lot much of the time. Occasionally somebody rented the Continue reading
The millennial urban provincialism of Ash Sarkar
Rather than bemoan the loss of the male novelist, as other commentators have done, it might be useful to ask where exactly the male reader Continue reading
Green’s gotta give
Climate change has always been with us, and always will be with us, the only topic of debate being: is human carbon fuel use driving Continue reading
January 2022 5-book giveaway to 5 winners
I am excited to be participating in this 5-book giveaway to 5 lucky winners, each of whom will receive a copy of the five books Continue reading
When they compassionately defenestrate you
Watching Rose McGowan and Nicki Minaj get raked across the coals of Leftist media reminds me of the fact that we re seeing an ideological sorting Continue reading
Perspective 2021
Because I am an introspective person I ve occasionally asked myself if I really was on the right side of 2015. Then I remember that Arthur Continue reading
They will have their villains, and their heroes, and their “truth”
Those who follow my essays over at Mad Genius Club, will have seen my five-part series I did on the magnificent disaster epic Chernobyl. Masterfully Continue reading
20 years gone
The paraphrasical and melancholic opening chords of Led Zeppelin s classic song echo through my soul as I contemplate the 20th anniversary of a day which Continue reading