“Buddha Nostril Bird”

Title“Buddha Nostril Bird”
Year for Search1990
AuthorsKessel, John [Joseph Vincent](b. 1950)
Secondary TitleIsaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
Volume / Edition14.3 (154)
Pagination56-75
Date PublishedMarch 1990
ISBN Number978-1-64524-058-7
ISSN Number1065-6298
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.

Illustration

Illus. Pat Morrissey (b. 1954)

Author Note

(b. 1950)

Full Text

1990 Kessel, John [Joseph Vincent] (b. 1950). “Buddha Nostril Bird.” Illus. Pat Morrissey (b. 1954). Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.3 (154) (March 1990): 56-75. Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.

A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.