Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

Memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and essays on all things human: explorations into our reason for being in the world. Living through language and ideas from a professor of English and writer.

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Recent posts

Gone Fishin'

for a while . . .

Apr 11•A. Jay Adler

Hail and Farewell

Jeffrey Steven Adler, April 4, 1947-May 16, 2011

Apr 4•A. Jay Adler

Missing in Memoir 2

What's That You say?

Mar 28•A. Jay Adler

Missing in Memoir, 1

The Truth That Got Away

Mar 21•A. Jay Adler

"What I'm Drinking These Days"

Poetry

Mar 14•A. Jay Adler

Let History Judge?

North Stars in Navigating Tyranny

Mar 11•A. Jay Adler

Everpresentism

The Groundhog Day of Social Calamity

Mar 4•A. Jay Adler

The American Road: 100th Anniversary III

Route 66: The End of the Road. Or the Journey?

Feb 28•A. Jay Adler

Here There Are "Detention" Centers

Immigrant Detention and Everyday Evil

Feb 25•A. Jay Adler

The American Road: 100th Anniversary II

Route 66: The Myth, the Model-T, and Mobility

Feb 22•A. Jay Adler

The American Road: 100th Anniversary

Route 66 and the American Mythos

Feb 14•A. Jay Adler