Jonathan Fitzgerald

Jonathan Fitzgerald is writer, web developer and perpetual learner living in Jersey City with his wife Stephanie, a painter. He has written for a number of periodicals and journals both online and in print focusing on such diverse topics as peace studies, literary criticism, religion and politics. He recently found out he needs glasses to see.

Don’t Just Do It

The line between modernism and postmodernism, both in theory and in time, is blurred, but one thing is certain: in the last decade, we’ve subtly begun to move away from the lack of interest in morality and the relativism so prominent in the twentieth century.

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Papa Fitz

Youth, age, illness, memory, and grandfatherly love.

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Resistance Was Futile

What happens when you’ve seen the other side?

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On the Road
and In the Book

Why we connect with the road novel, what makes it alluring, and what can make it dangerous.

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Star Trek
in the Park

So I have Star Trek on the brain, and yet I do very much want to share thoughts on this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park. And, if you’ll bear with me, I think we will find more connections between the works of Gene Roddenberry and those of Shakespeare than just the actor Patrick Stewart.

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Upgrade Me:
Are We Getting Better, Or Just Newer?

Is the constant rush to upgrade a good or bad thing? Or is it both?

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Endless Summer Cinema

Is the convention of “prequel” a shameless, money-making trick or is it a legitimate narrative convention?

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State by State,
and How I Made Amends with my Inner Patriot

On the places where patriotism and questioning intersect, and where literature can help us reach across a divide.

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At Home in Jersey City

The feeling that settled on us in our car as we descended Newark Avenue into downtown Jersey City can only be described as “coming home.”

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Postmodernism, The Big Green Ogre

It occurred to me somewhere in the middle of rewatching the final installment in the series that the Shrek movies are animated acts of deconstruction. They are striking examples of postmodernism in popular culture.

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