• See DQ on Nightline, Wednesday, Sept. 1
  Daniel just finished taping an interview about MY ISHMAEL and the frightening events of this afternoon at the Discovery Channel headquarters. Watch it tonight on Nightline.

  
  

  (added on September 1, 2010)

• What's going on at the Discovery Channel headquarters?
  About James Lee's tactics, Daniel says: "He is giving a bad name to the very ideas he's trying to put forward. So instead of putting them forward he's putting them back--making them unacceptable."

  
  

  (added on September 1, 2010)

• Lost DQ interview posted
  We were recently sent a reminder about a DQ interview in 2003 for The Texas Legacy Project. It's now been added to the Interviews section of Things to Read.
  
  (added on June 16, 2010)

• OOPS!
  Daniel is taking a break–literally and figuratively. He’s been on a kind of in-home extended sabbatical for awhile now for some much needed R&R from the computer, emails, questions like “What’s the next book?” and so on. Unfortunately, he’s had some falls recently, and one of them caused a couple of fractured ribs. He has to continue taking it easy until they heal, which means that he’s not going to be answering mail or reading other things that might be sent to him for comment or advice. If you need to get in touch, please email me (RMQ@ishmael.org).
  Thanks.
  Rennie

  
  

  (added on May 23, 2010)

• World-Changing Writing Workshop
  Pace and Kyeli of the Freak revolution are putting together a World-Changing Writing Workshop. They've gathered a group of world-changing writers, teachers, and speakers to help aspiring writers learn how to change the world with their writing. They interviewed Daniel for this project, and they'll share that interview as part of the workshop. You can find out more at World-Changing Writing Workshop.

  
  

  (added on May 11, 2010)

• Pan Earth: a site dedicated to a scientific, holistic approach to world problems (and population in particular).

• Read Ishmael: a site created by Quinn readers to reach out to other prospective readers.

• Friends of Ishmael Society: find local groups (and more).

• IshCon: another reader-created site. It's not active now, but conversations, plus information and photos about the conferences they organized, are archived and available for viewing.

• IshThink: an active reader-created discussion site. It's main purpose--to give people a forum to explore feelings and thoughts engendered by reading Quinn books.

  "A curriculum is structured like a pyramid, building from the ground up. You have to know A to learn B, you have to know A and B to learn C, you have to know A, B, and C to learn D, and so on."

"Exactly. But I have no such curriculum. Rather than a pyramid, I'm constructing a mosaic. The pieces can be added in any order. In the early stages, there's nothing like an image, but as pieces are added, an image begins to emerge. As still more pieces are added, the image becomes more distinct, more definite, so that eventually you feel sure that the basic picture is before you. From this point on, the picture can only gain in sharpness and detail as pieces continue to be added. At last it seems that there are no >missing pieces' at all, and only the cracks between contiguous pieces remain to be filled, with ever tinier pieces. As the cracks between pieces are filled, the picture begins to look more and more like a painting--a continuous whole rather than an assembly of fragments--and in the end it no longer resembles a mosaic at all."

The Story of B

 

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