Deep Literacy: A Call for Paradigm-Shift

My essay “We’ve Been Getting the Ancient Greeks All Wrong” has just been published in The Hedgehog Review. Click on the Articles button for links to this and other essays of mine. My recent essays are based on two connected trade book proposals I’ve completed, one about the impact of the alphabet and another about the origins of religious faith.

Altogether, I call it the Deep Literacy Project; it's based on the revolutionary ideas of Milman Parry, Eric Havelock, and others. I believe these ideas will change how we think about global history and culture. What do you think? I'd love to hear from you!

A Brief History of History

A Brief History of History

Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past

The Lyons Press
$27.95 hardcover (352p)
ISBN 978-1-59921-122-0


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Sailing from Byzantium

Sailing from Byzantium

How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

Delacorte, $22 hardcover (368p)
ISBN 0-553-80381-6

Delta, $14 paperback (368p)
ISBN 0-553-38273-0

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