Michael Livingston

Mar

21

Ancient Alexandria

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | Leave a Comment

The novel I’m writing requires at least a workable map of Alexandria during the reign of Cleopatra, a fact made especially clear in chapters such as the one I’m writing now: in it, Cleopatra’s daughter, Selene, walks from the docks of the Great Harbor to the famed Great Library itself. I had thought that [...]

Mar

19

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 12

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Mar

17

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 11

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Mar

17

Alexandria’s Anniversary

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | 3 Comments

In the midst of writing a coming chapter of Four Shards, I realized that 31 BCE, the year of Antony and Cleopatra’s defeat at the Battle of Actium and thus the practical end of the rule of the Ptolemies (if not quite their physical end), was exactly 300 years after the founding of Alexandria by [...]

Mar

16

Tornadoes in Charleston

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What a crazy bit of weather we just had in the Two Rivers! Tornado watches and warnings, oh my!
The weatherfolk were going crazy with anxious excitement: low pressure! wind shear! look at that speeds! wow! let’s look at our exclusive super duper doppler again! now with more color! yowzers!
Breathless excitement. Apparently Charleston gets [...]

Mar

13

Student Publication Success

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Cadet Joseph C. Collins, an upstanding Chemistry major from New York who will join the Navy after graduation, wrote a research paper for me last spring as a freshman (or “knob,” as we call the poor folks hereabouts). This Chemistry major’s topic? Shakespeare’s Othello, by golly.
Joseph is a terrific student, so [...]

Mar

13

Research on Actium

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As most site readers are aware, the novel I’m in the midst of writing — the first one I think I’ll try to sell — is largely set during those stormy years in which the Roman Republic dissolved and the Roman Empire was established in its place. As the one-line summation of Four Shards [...]

Mar

9

Induction of Robert Jordan into the SC Academy of Authors

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | 2 Comments

Last night, in the Riverview Room here at The Citadel, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (known to readers by many names, including Robert Jordan) was posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
As I told many of the other attendees of the induction ceremony, I would have been happy just to peek in [...]

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