“This morning I awoke to the realization that I'd been living my life within a parenthetical statement. It was a pathetic situation,… — Alexander Weinstein Life Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Character Copy Share Image
The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which… — Alexander Weinstein Currents Copy Share Image
I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that… — Alexander Weinstein Children Copy Share Image
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein American government Copy Share Image
You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and… — Alexander Weinstein Ayahuasca Copy Share Image
While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and… — Alexander Weinstein Ability Copy Share Image
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have… — Alexander Weinstein Fiction Copy Share Image
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic… — Alexander Weinstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t want: a low-octane life of draining jobs, counting the days till I’d have time to mow the lawn again,… — Alexander Weinstein Death Copy Share Image
Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique… — Alexander Weinstein Affair Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Absurd Copy Share Image
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