Derrick Jensen on Identity
“Each and everyone of us is both victim and thief whenever we identify not with our own bodies, not with our own humanity, not with our animality (we so often forget that we are animals, that we are primates), not with the landbases that support us, but rather with the very system that exploits us, that is killing us. To lose one’s identity is to say, I am not a human whose body is rotten with the wastes of the industrial system, and whose mind is similarly polluted. I am not a human who loves this person and does not love that person, who has gifts and desires and insecurities and strengths and weaknesses all my own, but rather I am my job. I am a writer. I am an engineer. I am

Anthony Storr on Creativity
“Creative people not infrequently experience periods of despair in which their ability to create anything new seems to have deserted them. This is often because a particular piece of work has become invested with such overwhelming importance that it is no longer possible to play with it. What Gibbon referred to as ‘The Vanity of Authors’ sometimes makes them regard their work with such desperate seriousness that ‘playing around’ with it becomes impossible. When this playful element disappears, joy goes with it, and so does any sense of being able to innovate.” - Anthony Storr -

FOOD, Inc.
FOOD, Inc. is a desperately needed film meant to educate the public and assist us in making informed choices as to what foods to put into our bodies. The filmmakers have courageously pulled the mask off of giant corporations who treat the human consumer in ways very similar to the animals they send off to slaughter. It’s terrifying to think the health of our population and future of our country’s farmers seem to get no consideration in the quest for ever increasing profits; and that the very fabric of nature, meaning the seeds for growing our crops, are being mutated then copy written and privately owned from here to eternity. Where is the regulation? Who is prot

Nancy Stohlman’s “Searching for Suzi” Available Now!
Searching for Suzi by Nancy Stohlman - Available Now! For a free preview, click here: Searching for Suzi From Monkey Puzzle Press: What happ

Monkey Puzzle #8 Available for Pre-Order!
Issue #8 is about to be unleashed! For a free sample, click here! Here’s what people are saying about Monkey Puzzle: “Reading Monkey Puzzle is the literary journal equivalent to listening to Jim Morrison scream ‘COME ON!’ before the guita