Jonathan Fitzgerald is writer, web developer and perpetual learner living in Jersey City with his wife Stephanie, a painter. He has written for a number of periodicals and journals both online and in print focusing on such diverse topics as peace studies, literary criticism, religion and politics. He recently found out he needs glasses to see.
I was a freshman in college when my parents called me with the news that they were considering buying an inn. I think I laughed at them. Who compensates for an impending bout of empty nest syndrome by filling the nest with strangers?
There’s something about living in a place that is always the brunt of a joke – a punch line – that really grows on you.
Our newest potential member listened in and asked the question that really is at the heart of social media: how do I know what I should and should not post on Facebook?
Do all these words, all this time spent building a case, ever actually work to convince somebody that the position that they hold is wrong and that they should exchange it for another, more correct stance?
The sense of multiple identities with which we live our lives is no accident.
The line between modernism and postmodernism, both in theory and in time, is blurred, but one thing is certain: in the last decade, we’ve subtly begun to move away from the lack of interest in morality and the relativism so prominent in the twentieth century.
Youth, age, illness, memory, and grandfatherly love.
What happens when you’ve seen the other side?
Why we connect with the road novel, what makes it alluring, and what can make it dangerous.
So I have Star Trek on the brain, and yet I do very much want to share thoughts on this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park. And, if you’ll bear with me, I think we will find more connections between the works of Gene Roddenberry and those of Shakespeare than just the actor Patrick Stewart.
Upgrade Me: Are We Getting Better, Or Just Newer?
Is the constant rush to upgrade a good or bad thing? Or is it both?
Is the convention of “prequel” a shameless, money-making trick or is it a legitimate narrative convention?
State by State, and How I Made Amends with my Inner Patriot
On the places where patriotism and questioning intersect, and where literature can help us reach across a divide.
The feeling that settled on us in our car as we descended Newark Avenue into downtown Jersey City can only be described as “coming home.”
Postmodernism, The Big Green Ogre
It occurred to me somewhere in the middle of rewatching the final installment in the series that the Shrek movies are animated acts of deconstruction. They are striking examples of postmodernism in popular culture.
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