Mired
Life in the Swamp - Ruminations on the Irrelevance of Truth in an Age of Unreason, Lies, and Killer Pandemics
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MIRED reads like an autobiographical time capsule, a treasure trove of personal recollections, historical events, and candid, often caustic meditations on the human condition, the Fourth Estate, political harlotry, cherished beliefs, and the nation he has renamed Amerika. Acerbic, defiant, irreverent, MIRED brings together a series of essays, each a kaleidoscopic musing on the state of a universe in disarray. Casting an alternately wistful and petulant glance at the viruses that sicken and kill, and pointing at the dogmas that render us mad, the author ventures no remedy for the world's multilayered and intersecting ills, only the sadness, bitterness, and anger they continue to evoke as he himself struggles to find his "place" in an ill-fitting world.
W E Gutman
Born in Paris in 1937, W. E. Gutman is a retired journalist and author of 20 books. The former international editor of the late-great futurist magazine, OMNI, he was appointed U.S. editor of Science in the USSR, the official publication of the Moscow-based Soviet Academy of Sciences. He co-founded a now-defunct military intelligence journal surveilling the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. He served briefly as a press attaché at Israel's Consulate General in New York and later reported from Central America from 1994 to 2006. He holds a master's degree from the Paris University School of Journalism. He paints in his spare time.
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