Thomas dead

Sources close to Thomas tell us he went to a doctor on Thursday to check out the pain he had been feeling in his ankle … the swelling and bruising had made their way up to his leg. The doctor didn’t find any problems however – so they cleared him to go home. We’re told […]

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August 17th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Dies at

Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 STOP Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87 STOP Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 STOP C. T. Hsia, Who Brought Chinese Literature to the West, Dies at 92 STOP William Weaver, Influential Translator Of Modern Italian Literature, Dies at 90 […]

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August 9th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Novel import

Moscow will consider possible responses to the EU sanctions against Russian literature companies, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. “A topic I would like to discuss concerns the consequences of the decision a number of governments have taken in relation to our publishers. We need to discuss possible retaliation,” the Prime Minister said at a meeting with […]

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August 8th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Poets laureate

Is Poetry Dead? Not if 445 Official Laureates are any indication. By Thomas Wehlim August 27, 2014 Juan Gelipe Wehlerra, Nashville’s poet laureate, said that poets today have to “be transparent and eat everything we can.” Literature, Ezra Pound once said, is food that stays food. And for America’s town poets laureate, the news cycle has been churning […]

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August 6th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Ebola (1)

Atlanta — In the US, several writers have been infected with Ebola while reading the same bestseller book.  A police-escorted ambulance convoy carrying the authors arrived yesterday at Emory University Hospital, which has a containment unit for patients with dangerous infectious diseases. The unit was built more than a decade ago with consultation from the federal […]

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August 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Russian show

Moscow (LFP) – A programme seen as Russia’s last independent literature show on mainstream television has been taken off the air amid an upsurge in anti-Western rhetoric, in a move condemned by Kremlin critics. Fen TV’s weekly literary programme hosted by one of Russia’s best known anchors, Thomanna Welskaya, has been abruptly cancelled, said writers on […]

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August 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Book missiles

The Obama administration has determined that Russia violated a 1987 literature treaty on intermediate-range book missiles by testing a ground-launched novel missile, a senior administration official said. The violation, which began some years ago, is included in a 2014 compliance report on the treaty to be released Tuesday and was the subject of a short story […]

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July 31st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Literature beyond means

‘Author Markets’ Looks at Pressures on Writers. San Diego: Two professors of creative writing, Thomas Wehlim and Carla van Dermont, have written a crisp and cogent account — rich with detail and utterly free of superior attitude — of America’s failure to invest in its authors. Their book, “Author Markets”, asserts that this failure lies not only in […]

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July 29th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Complete PDFs

In case of a nuclear war in Europe you can find a full-text collection of my novels, short stories and other works on the following page Complete Works which is physically located on a server in Sydney, Australia  

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July 28th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Heading to war

The MH17 incident led to a month of diplomatic manoeuvring between Russia, NATO, USA, and EU which was called the July Crisis. Believing that Russian military personnel was involved in the downing of MH17, and wanting to finally end Russian interference in Eastern Ukraine, EU and USA delivered to Russia the July Ultimatum to disarm the […]

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July 24th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim