William Eaton

Praised as "joyful skeptic" (UTNE Reader) and for combining “the compelling truth of documentary with the grace of romantic fiction” (Manuel Puig). Award-winning journalist, novelist, writer of erotic fiction, intellectual essays, dialogues. Surviving the Twenty-First Century (essays) due out fall 2014. Editor of Zeteo (zeteojournal.com).

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    William Eaton joined the group Group logo of AnnouncementsAnnouncements 7 years, 5 months ago

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane, on the site The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane 7 years, 10 months ago

    ThumbnailCome to Dixon Place in New York on Saturday, 25 October 2014, 7:30 pm, for a staged reading of the first part of this dialogue. Dixon Place is at 161 Chrystie Street in Manhattan. Show will last 45 minutes and is <strong style="color: […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, After von Trotta’s Arendt, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 1 month ago

    ThumbnailNotes after seeing Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (and doing a little reading)
     
    Taking clues from Hannah Arendt (2013), directed by Margarethe von Trotta; screenplay by Pam Katz and Margarethe von Trotta […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, On Being the Enemy, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 3 months ago

    ThumbnailClick here for dowloadable PDF.
    How Does It Feel To Be The Enemy?
    An Arab Mother’s Reflections on the Boston Tragedy
    By Lama Zuhair Khouri
    Lama Zuhair Khouri is a psychotherapist in private practice and a […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Welcome to the Spring 2013 Issue, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 3 months ago

    ThumbnailZeteo believes in the generalist intellectual. S/he may be what Kant called a focus imaginarius, an idea lying outside the bounds of possible experience, but nonetheless helping us organize and extend our […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Reading 25 April – 1 May 2013 (ZiR), on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 3 months ago

    ThumbnailWilliam Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser
    [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.]

    25 April 2013

    “If I were to generalize,” the anarchist anthropologist David Graeber said […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, James Baldwin and the Black Press, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 4 months ago

    Thumbnail“Next Time, the Fire in Giovanni’s Room”: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin’s Second Novel in the Black Press”
    By Rachel Corbman
    A close reading of articles printed in a range of black newspapers and […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Eating Intelligent Beings, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 4 months ago

    ThumbnailEating Intelligent Beings

     
    By Walter Cummins
     

    A review of:

    Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello […]

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    William Eaton started the forum topic Current issue of Nature (495: 7442 / 27 March 2013) in the group Group logo of Open at CUNYOpen Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) 9 years, 4 months ago

    Special Issue on Open-Access Publishing and Related Issues. I quote below from the editors’ description of the contents. Focus is on the “hard” sciences, but much of the thinking applies as well to those of […]

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    William Eaton commented on the post, Reading 17-23 March 2013, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for your kind words, Megan! – Wm. Eaton

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 4 months ago

    ThumbnailEnvironmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins
    By Ashok Karra
    Review of Biogea, by Michel Serres. Translated by Randolph Burks (Univocal, 2012). Distributed by University of Minnesota Press.

     

    In […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Who’s Happy Now?, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 5 months ago

    ThumbnailWho’s Happy Now?
    By Victoria Ludas Orlofsky
    What makes people happy, on a large scale? Is happiness determined by what we have or by what we still hope to attain? If the medical, agricultural, and educational […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 5 months ago

    ThumbnailThe Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual
    By William Eaton
    Review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen (Princeton University Press, 2013)


    Finding Oneself is a deceptively complex, both […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR), on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 5 months ago

    ThumbnailReading 3-9 March 2013 (ZiR)
    William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser
    [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.]

    A reader on vacation—shouldn’t he be on vacation from […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Memory Stor(i)es, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 6 months ago

    ThumbnailMemory Stor(i)es
    By Stuart Johnson

    Stories of actual real-world controversies over the nature of memory, with actual real-world consequences, sometimes life and death. But by the end, memory remains remarkably […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, The Destruction of a Presidency, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 6 months ago

    ThumbnailThe Destruction of a Presidency

    By Alan Stein
    Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 2012)


    In his new book, James T. Patterson, a Bancroft […]

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    William Eaton wrote a new post, Reading Women Reading, on the site Z e t e o 9 years, 7 months ago

    ThumbnailReading Women Reading
    By Rachel M. Brownstein

    Jack tells two stories, one about women readers and the other about men’s obsession with them. Her major contribution is the valuable point she makes in her […]

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    Rachael Benavidez and Profile picture of William EatonWilliam Eaton are now friends 9 years, 7 months ago

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