Learning from modern responses to the Holocaust (Medium, )

The chief eunuch in Vernon Lee’s Virgin of the Seven Daggers (Medium, 9 Sept 2022) Orientalism by Edward Said (Medium, 5 Sept 2022)īababalouk in William Beckford’s Vathek (Medium, 6 Sept 2022) Murmur by Will Eaves: A novel based on the castration of Alan Turing (The Shadow, ) So many good bad films in the junkyard: On Junk Film by Katharine Coldiron (Medium, )

On the ritual of political scapegoating (Medium, ) Gods as ‘watchers’ who monitor our behavior (Medium, ) Why are powerful people so terrible? (Medium, ) What murderers make philosophers think about (Medium, ) In myth, the extra-binary thing explains everything (Medium, 13 August 2022)īeing cruel and pretending you’re not (Medium, 16 June 2022) What language can we use for evil? (Dead Men Blogging, 14 June 2022) Read about eunuchs in: Fiction | Nonfiction | History | Myth | Film Other things to read about villains and evil Not all of these are “villain” tropes, so they didn’t make it into the Painting Dragons book! I’ve blogged a fair amount about eunuch representation in literature.

(Yes, it is also available from the corporate giant in paperback and as a Kindle ebook.) Other things to read about eunuchs The ebook version is available on services like Kobo. I’ve painstakingly gathered and analyzed information that I think will interest and help others. It’s my great pleasure to create something unique.įinally, with the help of a fabulous publishing coach, four editors, and cover artist Andi Santagata, it came into the world in 2018.Īsk your favorite independent bookstore if they can order paperback ISBN 978-1-732 from IngramSpark. I had to write the book I wanted to see in the world. This has been a mission-driven project of mine for nearly as long as I can remember. Rosens’ #VillainSleepover blog post on May 29, 2019. 17, 2018 interview on Episode 26, “Robot Eunuchs,” of the Stories We Tell Our Robots podcast! Painting Dragons was also mentioned on C. 13, 2019 interview by Laila Winters, my blog post “When the Person is the Message” for Book Club Babble in May 2019, and listen to my Dec. I’m asking: Why do writers paint these dragons? There are several literary tropes about eunuchs why does the “evil eunuch” stereotype exist? How does it play out in novels? If you’re a writer, how might you change the game in your novel? What people are sayingĬheck out my Feb. In the early 1800s, a British novelist said of a real-life Persian political tyrant who was a eunuch: “I have placed him in my narrative, as a painter sometimes inserts a dragon or some such monster in the foreground of his landscape.”

Painting Dragons by Tucker Lieberman