Victoria N. Alexander's Blog, page 14
December 20, 2016
2016 Top 20: Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art
The Book/Arts blog of the prestigious journal Nature has included Fine Lines in its top 20 book list for 2016. Fine Lines was also review in Doppiozero in Italy, Haibun in Romania, and science and art blog, and made the top 20 list bioteaching.com 
December 11, 2016
Listen to satire of Webutuck Schools in Locus Amoenus audiobook
The Webutuck Central School district is asking Millerton and Amenia residents to throw another eight million dollars at one of the most expensive and lowest rated schools in the state. Listen to this sample chapter from Locus Amoenus, in which the young hero, Hamlet, talks about his experiences in Amenia and Webutuck schools. The satire […]
November 26, 2016
Some notes in the margins of Locus Amoenus
A former employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Peter Michael Ketcham, who worked at NIST from 1997 until 2011, wrote this letter (below) to the editor of Europhysics News last week. NIST is the government agency tasked with investigating how the Twin Towers collapsed. Ketcham is calling NIST out for its […]
October 28, 2016
Third Way of Evolution
Happy to be accepted into this extraordinary group of evolutionary theorists and excited about starting new work on a non-selectionist approach to learning.
September 7, 2016
Art and science, artificial intelligence and propaganda
The mission of New York Council for the Humanities (NYCH) is to reach general, diverse audiences, providing them with engaging speakers on important humanities topics that everyone will find interesting or useful. Any non-profit organization in New York state can request a NYCH Public Scholar to speak, at no cost to the host organization. I […]
July 11, 2016
My Mimicry Research Translated into French: Papillons et feuilles mortes
“Butterflies and dead leaves: A Biosemiotic Approach to Nabokov’s Theory of Mimicry,” based on VN Alexander’s lecture at “Living Matter / Literary Forms”, organized at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in April 2013 by Liliane Campos, Yasna Bozhkova and Pierre-Louis Patoine. Text translated by Pierre–Louis Patoine. Vladimir Nabokov n’a pas publié que des romans. On compte aussi à […]
July 4, 2016
Fine Lines in France, Greece, Japan and Russia
A few more reviews of Fine Lines
July 2, 2016
June 13, 2016
Locus Amoenus wins 2016 Literary Fiction Book Review award
I am very excited to announced that Locus Amoenus has received the LFBR 2016 award for “excellence in literary fiction.” Locus Amoenus by Victoria N. Alexander centers upon the bucolic county seat of Amenia in upstate New York where Gertrude and her son Hamlet make their home after the horror of 9/11 deprived them of […]
