Feiler Slower
Friday, February 16, 2007

Recently on Feiler Faster:

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Interfaith Talks with Iran -- What a moderate Bishop is doing to help bring peace to the Middle East, and to us
Are the Jews Responsible for Anti-Semitism -- Is the blood libel true?
Camels are for Lovers -- The new feminine face of humps
Happy Birthday, Nanny -- My daughters turn 22 months on the 100th anniversary of my grandmother's birth
Dr. Ruth Disses Me -- A Valentine's face
Bob Dylan (Hearts) Israel -- The bard's hidden Zionist side
When the President Blurbs Your Book -- A Valentine bouquet from the leader of the free world and C-SPAN
Mohammad (Hating) Ali -- The new love child of the Religious Right
The Power of Place -- The Bible and Appalachia
Make Islam Not Love -- Did Mohammad like chocolate?
Why Nahsville (Hearts) American Idol -- The new route to the Grand Ole Opry
Showing Christ's Love to Muslim Haters -- Jesus Would Too Have Loved Osama
Blog of Arabia -- When the keyboard hits the desert

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Feiler Slower
Monday, February 5, 2007

With the publication on Tuesday of WHERE GOD WAS BORN, we've been experiencing a surge in traffic here at Feiler Faster. Here are some of the stories we've been following recently.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:
Bibles of Blogging -- Fox v CNN v Chicago Tribune
Madrassah-gate -- Was Obama schooled as a terrorist?
Muslim Blood in the White House? -- Was Obama's father a terrorist?
Can a Muslim-Atheist-Christian Be Elected President? -- Bloggers react to Feiler Faster.
It Worked So Well For Mike Tyson -- Now Michael Jackson wants to Muslim

NO THANK YOU:
Thank God, the NYT Reads Feiler Faster -- NYT jumps on our No Thank Yous at award shows bandwagon.
No Thank You, Oscar -- Ellen DeGeneris jumps on our No Thank You bandwagon.
No Thank You -- A radical proposal on how to improve award shows.

DOES TV CAUSE AUTISM?
Baby Einstein Isn't Smart -- What Mrs. Feiler Faster and George Bush have in common
Surge in Baby Einstein Wars -- One More Surge Nobody Likes
Does Baby Einstein Cause Autism? -- A surprising study says yes

AND THIS:
Red Hot Garth Brooks Chili Peppers -- Why Hispanics Don't Like Country Music
No Sneezing on Delta -- God banned from heaven
No More Faxing that Prayer to the Western Wall -- The Internet invades the Old City
Ghetto Chic -- Why Rome suddenly loves the Jews
No Wonder -- The war over the Seven Wonders

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You-Pod?
Tuesday, December 5, 2006

A reader writes in response to Me 3.0

Thanks Bruce for the new site design and your great books and PBS Series. I'll be ordering your Walking the Bible DVD to share with friends. In my opinion the single most important item that you add to your site is podcasts of your various appearances. You're going to be making appearances anyway, why not record and then share them on your site for busy professionals to download and listen to on commutes?
As you can see, we are busy adding a bunch of new features to the site, including discussion boards . Be the first on your block to contribute! Podcasts, I must say, had not come up. I’m wondering if anybody else out there is clamoring for podcasts? In the meantime, Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born are available in downloadable audio through audible.com . I see audible even sells a speech of mine from C-SPAN and an interview I did about Dreaming Out Loud , my book on Garth Brooks and the new face of country music, that aired on Fresh Air a number of years ago.

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Me 3.0
Sunday, November 26, 2006

In March 2001, on the eve of the publication of Walking the Bible, I started a website. I did it on a whim. "Authors should have websites," I thought. It changed my life. Not just my professional life. My life life. The experience of having people write me, in the middle of the night, two days after finishing a book, on the eve of a discussion in their book group,thirty-five years after teaching me in kindergarten; from Japan, Kuwait, the Philippines; in Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi; in appreciation, in tears, in rage; while watching me on PBS, while listening to me on NPR; while sitting with their dying spouse, while serving in Iraq, just after sending their grandchild to Israel, just after nodding off on the side of Route 1 in California while listening to me on an audiobook; has been the unexpected gift of nearly two decades of being a professional writer. Publishing books, appearing on television, giving a speech, succumbing to the occasional temptation of being the glib, knowing witmaster pundit (like on Stephen Colbert) are mostly one-way forms of interaction. This site has enabled me to communicate, in the best, two-way sense of that word.

So now, more communication. This is the third major design of this site, and the first in several years. Many of the features visitors have come to expect remain, including descriptions, an excerpt, reviews, and links to purchase each of my nine books. For my last three books - Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born - we have very popular interfaith discussion guides andother materials for readings groups or classes. You can read a full bio and signup to receive a newsletter of upcoming appearances. Also, on the events page,I keep a perpetually updated list of where I'll be speaking and a have a link to the wonderful folks at Royce Carlton who help arrange my schedule. And, ofcourse, I have a way to send me an e-mail. In over five years, I've answered every single one.

But in coming weeks we're going to be adding a new slate of features, including forums to discuss Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born on the site, video links to some of my appearances, and, as you can tell, a blog. Soon, I plan to begin posting comments, reports from my travels, photographs, the occasional video diary, the occasional rant, questions from my research that you might be able to help answer, requests for a restaurant recommendation or an interview tip, a tidbit that comes across my desk that you might beinterested in, a tale or two of twins. I'll also explain the story behind thename of this blog.

For now, I wanted to get this redesign in place before the holidays, especially since many PBS stations are re-airing all three hours of Walking the Bible. Since it's been one of the most frequently asked questions of late, a DVD is available.

Please know that we're hard at work on our end. Please stop back by soon. And please turn off that audiobook if my voice is putting you to sleep.

Special thanks to Holden Richards of Kitchen Media for his splendid redesign. And grateful appreciation to my brother (and editor), Andrew Feiler, for the use of his photographs in the blog roll above. The picture of me on the top of the Great Pyramid in Giza was taken by David Wallace, the British director of Walking the Bible, who, when I offered to pay him for the use of his image,wrote, "I believe that anything that happens on top of a pyramid betweenconsenting adults does not require a fee."

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