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Poet, novelist, intellectual, and literary critic, Marion Montgomery taught composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty-three years. He also wrote hundreds of poems, dozens of short stories, three novels, one novella, and more than twenty books of literary and cultural criticism. Montgomery received numerous awards for his fiction and verse in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 2001 he received the Stanley W. Lindberg Award (named for longtime Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg) for outstanding contributions to Georgia's literary heritage.
Early Life
Marion Hoyt Montgomery Jr. was born on April 16, 1925, in Thomaston, the son of Lottie May Jenkins and Marion H. Montgomery. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and married Dorothy Carlisle in 1951; the couple had five children. He received his B.A. (1950) and M.A. (1953) at the University of Georgia and did postgraduate work in creative writing at the University of Iowa (1956-58). During this time he also began his long teaching career at the University of Georgia, from which he retired in 1987. For the next two decades he continued to write, publishing his last book, With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: In Company with Flannery O'Connor, T. S. Eliot, and Others,in 2009. Montgomery died at his home in Crawford, in Oglethorpe County, on November 23, 2011, at the age of eighty-six.
Montgomery's three novels, all set in twentieth-century Georgia, focus on conflicts between the Old and the New South. The Wandering of Desire (1962) takes its title from Ecclesiastes as well as its themes: "all is vanity" and "that which has been will be again." Two ambitious men, a self-made yeoman farmer and a progressive farmer, fight for control of "the Hill," a tract of land in fictional Waring County. Both ultimately are defeated by the forces of nature and human depravity. Faulknerian in style and scope, The Wandering of Desire powerfully captures the history, geography, and culture of the region.
His second novel, Darrell (1964), combines comedy, satire, and tragedy in its depiction of the misadventures of a country-born boy and his grandmother as they attempt to adjust to life in an Athens neighborhood. Darrell's longing for an even more exciting life in Atlanta is counterbalanced by his grandmother's common sense and longing for the country.
Montgomery's most ambitious and experimental novel is Fugitive (1974). In it country music writer Walt Mason flees from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, to a small village in northeast Georgia, where he seeks "the good life" in the country. Hugh Akers, his guide to genuine country ways, and other residents in the community envelop the narrative with bawdy, comic, tragic, and wise stories and sayings. Authentic country wit and idiom is one of the strongest features of the novel.
Several of Montgomery's short stories have been anthologized: two notable ones are the comic "I Got a Gal" and the poignant "The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson," which appeared in Southern Writing in the Sixties (1966) and The Best American Short Stories: 1971.
Montgomery's verse has been collected in three volumes: Dry Lightning (1960), Stones from the Rubble (1965), and The Gull and Other Georgia Scenes (1969). The culture of the South and the roles he has played in his own life—poet, teacher, husband, father—form the bedrock for traditional and free-verse poems illuminating universal human experiences and human nature. Lyrical, ironic, satirical, and reflective, Montgomery is also occasionally philosophical, as in his long poem "At Al Johnson's Lake," a tense, engaging celebration of the mystery of being.
With the exception of a few poems, most of Montgomery's later writing was critical, yet the poet's insights and language illuminate the theological, philosophical, and literary issues he examined. In The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age (1981-84), a three-volume study of Western modernism, Montgomery calls his readers back to traditional and orthodox truths that are central in all of his work: namely, that spiritual concerns are compatible with realism in literature; that reason and imagination are gifts that should be carefully exercised in life, faith, and art; that ideas have consequences; that intellectual errors should be traced to their root in time and place; that being should be celebrated rather than subjugated; that piety and openness to creation are the proper responses to existence; and that mind and heart, reason and feeling are companionable faculties. The trilogy and such later works as Possum and Other Receits for the Recovery of "Southern" Being (1987), Liberal Arts and Community (1990), and Romantic Confusions of the Good (1997) defend a Christian vision of the world and decry modernity, an intellectual attitude that Montgomery contended divorces man from both tradition and transcendence.
In both poetry and fiction Montgomery made his subjects palpable, giving the reader a keen sense of the flora, fauna, geography, and human culture of his region. His work, both creative and critical, is informed by his distinctive intellectual heritage. Like Flannery O'Connor, among other writers, Montgomery was influenced by the Southern Agrarians, while in theology and philosophy he was a neo-Thomist (advocating the thought of thirteenth-century philosopher Thomas Aquinas). This combination formed his traditional conservatism. The starting point in all of Montgomery's work is piety: a reverent awareness of the physical creation, moral and spiritual realities, individual gifts such as reason and imagination, and cultural life (values, customs, and traditions inherited from the past). Piety and a recovery of reason are constant themes in his writing.


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Health exchanges: Not like Travelocity
WASHINGTON You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon.
But many people will end up with something more mundane than online shopping, like a call to the help desk.
Struggling with a deadline crunch, some states are delaying online tools that could make it easier for consumers to find the right plan when the markets go live on Oct. 1.
Ahead of open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans, the feds and the states are investing in massive call centers.
"The description that this was going to be like Travelocity was a very simplistic way of looking at it," said Christine Ferguson, director of the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange. "I never bought into it."
"The bottom line is that with tight timelines … states have had to scale back their initial ambitions for Day 1," said Paul Hencoski, leader of KPMG's government health practice, which is advising nearly 20 states. "A lot of the more sophisticated functionalities that might have been offered through the Web are being deferred to later phases."
When the markets first open, Hencoski said, "there will be a significant amount of manual processing of things that will later be automated." Translation: emails, phone calls, faxes.
The Obama administration, which will be running the markets or taking the lead in 35 states, has yet to demonstrate the technology platform that will help consumers get financial help with their premiums and pick a plan.
Officials say they always envisioned people would be able to apply in a variety of ways, from online to the mail. About 7 million are expected to enroll in the marketplaces by next year, and the administration says consumers will be pleased with the experience.
Also known as exchanges, the markets are supposed to transform the way individuals and small businesses buy private health insurance by increasing transparency and competition, bolstering government oversight of insurers, and injecting hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies.
"Consumers see this as a serious product, and something that requires a serious amount of research," said Julie Bataille, overseeing the federal Health and Human Services department outreach effort. "It's something they see in a more serious way than (buying) an airline ticket."
It's a complicated transaction with different components, including arranging financing and picking the right product, each with its own trade-offs. You may need a glossary of health insurance terms.
You'll log on to the marketplace in your state, or the federally run exchange, and set up a personal account. You'll enter information about yourself and your family, including Social Security numbers and household income.
The Internal Revenue Service will calculate the maximum health insurance subsidy that you're entitled to. It's set up as a tax credit, so the taxman can come back to collect if you claim too much. Discrepancies between the information you submit and what's in government records will take time to straighten out.
Once you've got your subsidy nailed down, you're ready to pick a plan. Once you do that, the U.S. Treasury will send your insurer a payment, and you'll pay any difference. Coverage begins Jan 1.
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How much information does it take to single out one person among billions?
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Suppose you fill out a survey online, with the assurance that your answers will remain anonymous. The questionnaire doesn't record your name and address, but it does ask for some demographic information: your date of birth, your zip code, and your gender. What are the chances you could be identified from those three facts alone? You can answer this question for yourself at the website http://aboutmyinfo.org, which was set up by Latanya Sweeney of Harvard University. In my case, the site reports that I am probably the only male born on December 10, 1949, living in zip code 02144. Thus three items of not-very-intimate information—gender, zip, birth date—reveal enough to pick me out of a crowd.
Ideas about identity, privacy, and anonymity are changing fast in this era of big data and social networks. At the deepest level, identity is all about the sense of self—the answer to the question "Who am I?" Each of us also has a biological identity (manifested in fingerprints, facial features, DNA sequences) and a legal identity (name, Social Security number, signature, and so on). Now we also have a data identity, defined by various combinations of traits that distinguish us from the rest of humanity. If you ask me to identify myself, I will not answer "M, 02144, 12/10/49"; and yet, by the combinatorics of uniqueness, I am that person as much as I am "Brian Hayes." Maybe more so: Dozens of people share my name.
In the online world we have still more identities, most of them unknown even to ourselves. For example, I am my web browser history. The list of URLs I have visited in the past week or the past month is surely unique to me, just as my fingerprints are. I could even be identified by the list of fonts available to my web browser—and a few companies make use of such facts to track individuals as they wander from site to site across the web.
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Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised on the Lazy B Ranch. She attended Stanford University, where she took Wallace Stegner's writing course. She began her public service in Phoenix, and was majority leader of the Arizona Senate before becoming a judge. O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court justice when President Reagan nominated her to the Court in 1981, where she served until 2006. She serves as Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, and is on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Her latest book is Out Of Order.
Madeleine K. Albright is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State of the United States and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. Formerly, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In 2012, she was chosen by President Obama to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in recognition of her contributions to international peace and democracy. Dr. Albright is the author of, most recently, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948.
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A leading House Democrat said Friday John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a "risky" move that could ultimately prove disastrous to the Republican prospects in November.
Meanwhile, a top Senate Democrat said the pick is a "Hail Mary pass" and a "roll of the dice," in what is the initial reactions from McCain's rival party.
Speaking to South Carolina ETV Radio, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn likened the choice of Palin to Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and George H.W. Bush's pick of Dan Quayle in 1988. Both picks relatively unknown political figures at the time generated initial excitement but were ultimately deemed poor choices by many political observers.
"I think (her selection) would be something similar to Dan Quayle Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment as a campaigner, being thrust on a national stage like that could be very tough," Clyburn said. "Now Mondale tried to shake things up by going with Geraldine Ferraro, she proved to be a disaster as a running mate. And as a campaigner, she was absolutely awful."
"And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left," Clyburn also said.
In an issued statement, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Palin is significantly mismatched to Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden and said the prospect of her becoming president is "troubling."
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Of course they do. Just like the AMA says chiropractors are quacks.
Chicken Noodle News -- I love it!
If they really think it's such a disaster, why are they so scared?
I appreciate their concern. It's touching, actually.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Bring it on, you disaster mongers.
That's the BEST picture I've seen of her yet.
This woman could have a lobotomy and still out IQ both Obama and Biden. Heh! Heck, her speech was better without a prompter than the Obamaloon with one. Despite the MSM's best efforts to derail this, the dhimmis are toast - as long as McCain doesn't do something stupid - like acting like a senator.
Rats just hit the "oh sh*t button". Bet they would like a do over on their VP pick.
The only disaster that is brewing is a conservative revival and backlash that will send the Rats back into the minority again. I smell fear in the liberals.
Hmmmm - where have I heard terminology like "risky scheme" before??
LOL . . and picking a black community organizer who can't talk without a teleprompter who has friends like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers ISN'T risky?
These people should be on Comedy Central.
They should be happy then. Why should CNN care if the Republicans are in trouble?
In addition, Sarah's experience is all-American, pro-American, and proud American experience. Whereas Obama's is militantly anti-American as a community organizer, working in the Saul Alinsky method (ie. marxist) of "community" orgainization.
That means he made the right choice.
I have spent weeks defending John McCain on FR but I have to tell you that that is funnier than hell! :)
LMAO they don'tknow whether to $h!t or go blind! I am LOVIN it!
Any time a demo(n)crat provides "advice" to Conservatives it is because they are about to wet their pants.
I love the criticism of the Demo(n)crats over Sarah Palin: "Do you want someone with no experience a heartbeat away from the Presidency?" Whoa, do they really want to hammer that theme?!
Well, I'd far prefer she be a heartbeat away from the Presidency than Barry's heartbeat actually being IN the Presidency!
Speaking of heartbeats...let's talk about Barry and babies who actually survive abortions and are left to die in IL thanks to Barry. Is this the "experience" we want in the White House.
Here we were on the 45th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, where Demo(n)crats and the Dinosaur Media are asking the American voters to select a man based on the color of his skin rather than on the content of his (deeply flawed) character!
Vote Principles over Pigment!
Only Bush won, if I remember correctly.
Someone's whistling through the graveyard.
Sarah Palin is a "risky" move that could ultimately prove disastrous to the Republican prospects in November.
Same could be said about the sadly underexperienced and over owned Hussain.
"Me thinks thou dost protest too much."
That's awesome!
Lets start taking bets on the next gallup daily tracking poll.
Odumbo 30%
McImnotsodumbafterall 60%
Its touching, the way the Dems are so worried about us.
They are smelling double digit defeat.
This argument would be a lot more compelling if the Democrats didn't have someone with even less experience than Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin on top of their ticket.
FEAR - That is what we are seeing from the left and MSM - Nothing other than FEAR and spin.....
Algore called it a "risky scheme"........
LOL! I am *so* stealing that!
BTW- I was at the dentist's today. I told him, total deadpan, "Drill here- drill now". :-)
The Democrats are having buyer's remorse and neighbors'envy.
LOL! If they really believed this they would be rejoicing rather than shtn in their pants, they would be laughing their heads off like we did with the Biden pick.
I'm beginning to wonder if Biden will be eased out somehow and Hillary ushered in.
A could be is better than a sure thing.
I'm beginning to wonder if Biden will be eased out somehow and Hillary ushered in.
Me too! I just ordered my bumper sticker and lawn sign. I never thought I would do that this year!
She's Barracuda.....
" Chicken Noodle News " or Chicken little news ( as in Global Warming ).
"Dems say Palin is 'risky,' could be a disaster"
If that's the best they can come up with, the Democrats are in a full blown Defcon 5 panic!
The Democrats really are in a tizzy-fit about this news. They thought they owned the air waves.
Batten down the hatches, folks! It's gonna be a bumpy ride. Super Sarah is here!
We ought to be able to create some funny bumper stickers over this. Barack Obama vs. Super Sarah!
What I liked about Sarah Palin was her humility and down-to-earth outlook. She's not a nuanced person. None of that prissy Ivy League phoniness about her. NcCain and Palin ought to be able to ride rings around Obama-Biden. She's very pretty, but I'm sure she doesn't peer into her mirror 1/10th as often as Obama does.
When I was growing up in South Carolina my Mother would call it a conniption fit!
And this guy has thrown Ferraro completely under the bus! These guys are so confused about how to approach this, I'd bet their heads are exploding!
Go ahead and bring on the two-headed, medicalless bowling ball baby!
She's DISATEROUS......to OBAMA!!! GREAT PICK, McCAIN!
They're trying to "Hillary" her. They are trying to create a climate of fear and a hostile political environment against her, based in a large part on her gender.
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Interview with Beth Kephart
Wendy Toliver was on vacation last week, so ya'll will have to wait for her guest blog. Instead I bring you the amazing Beth Kephart, the author of UNDERCOVER, HOUSE OF DANCE, and more. Back in September, she did an interview with me. It was fun to turn the tables! And since Beth is uber-nice I know she'll be cool about me shifting her interview up a few days. And if the weather where you live is anything like mine, it's rainy and cold and absolutely perfect for curling up with books like Beth's.
1. You've got a number of books coming out, but you still find time to blog. But it makes me wonder: do you think you'll ever publish something with your poetry or photos?
Oh, what a great first question you ask. I would love nothing more than to publish my poetry, with photos. My photos have appeared in my books from time to time—into the memoir, Still Love in Strange Places, for example, are wedged my images of El Salvador, and the plan is to have some of my Juarez photography incorporated into the jacket of the forthcoming The Heart is not a Size. But one of the primary reasons I started this blog was to "publish," so to speak, a collage of my poems and photos. To put both in one place, as often as I can, and without limits.
2. UNDERCOVER, which I loved, is coming out in paperback with extras, just to be mean to those of us with the hardcover. (Not really.) How much input did you get in choosing the extras? i know there's often a reading guide and message from the author, but I've always wondered where the reading guides come from.
Wait. All of your questions are exquisite! But I digress.
Jill Santopolo, my editor, gave me utter freedom when it came to these extras. And so I decided that what I wanted to do was to think ahead in Elisa Cantor's life, to imagine how things had played out for her, and to briefly capture her subsequent time at high school in a series of new poems. And that is what these extras are. No reading guide. No instructions on how to read the book. Just a suggestion about the still-lived life of a character I can't let go of. And poetry. Published. In a book.
3. UNDERCOVER features an ice-skater. HOUSE OF DANCE a ballroom dancer. What attracts you to forms of dance? Does the protagonist of NOTHING BUT GHOSTS have a connection to the world of dance?
Katie D'Amore, the heroine of Nothing but Ghosts, does not dance, but there are images that float toward and away from her, just as music floats in and out of me at all times. Writing is the way I sing. It is the way I dance. It is the way I love the world. My characters spring from me, and so they are music bound.
4. I loved your vlog thanking the team behind NOTHING BUT GHOSTS because I enjoy learning about what it takes to polish a novel. What are the most amazing things you've discovered while reading through your manuscript covered in blue pencil?
Gosh, well. The answer to that question could constitute an entire book unto itself. I have a tendency to crumple up my adjectives in a way that leaves Renee, my copy editor, asking: "Would that be a white table with wheels on it? Or a table with white wheels?" With each book I think I get better at self-induced precision. Renee did not have to sharpen too many blue pencils for the forthcoming The Heart is not a Size. In fact, I loved her notes in the margins of that book. I'd be writing about a river in Mexico, for example. Her blue pencil would sing out, "If you like that river, you should see..... " And then she'd give me some other slice of the world. It made me smile.
5. Have you written the novel you've always wanted to right or are you still trying to find it in you?
Nothing but Ghosts has a mystery at its heart, and that was new and exciting terrain for me (and one of the reasons Renee needed many blue pencils). It found me; I tried my best to answer to the challenge. The Heart is not a Size deals with issues—panic disorder and teen anorexia—that I never thought I would have the courage to face on the page, and it takes readers to a place—a squatters' village in Juarez—that matters to me deeply, that inspired and moved me. For the past five years I've been at work on a novel that takes place in Philadelphia in 1876. It's a new kind of book for me—an historical novel—and I loved the challenge of sinking deeply within it, and of writing with a brand-new voice. I loved writing it, as I have loved writing all my books. Now I'm at work on a novel that takes place on a cortijo in Seville—a setting with which I worked for years, but never to my complete satisfaction. Something new is happening here, again. Something that is, to me, thrilling as process.
(I should note that both the historical novel and the Seville novel are works in progress, without, as yet, an official home.)
The point is that I am always and forever journeying out toward the breaking point of what I can, at the moment in my career, achieve. Perhaps someday I'll look back and say, That was the novel that I wanted to write, in some definitive way. But each time out I'm writing to the best of me, I'm writing what finds me and what I have the courage to embrace. I'm going the distance. I'm seeing where it takes me.
6. You have a close relationship with your son.. What sort of books do ya'll share? Is there any book you can't believe he doesn't like?
Oh yes, I love my son. And we are completely and utterly different in our tastes. He has loved the books that I've shared with him—A Separate Peace, When the Emperor was Divine, a number of short stories by Flannery O'Connor and Faulkner, for example. But he's much happier reading books with faster-paced plots and more "excitement," as he puts it. He has decided to minor in creative writing at college. I watch; I wait; he teaches me. I'll be teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall—the advanced nonfiction workshop. One of the reasons that I accepted that honor was so that I might stretch as a teacher just as my son is stretching as a student.
7. What kind of camera do you use? Lens? Do you ever play around with filters? Have any feeling about film versus digital?
I use a Sony, and it's a digital, and it allows me to make mistakes, as all digitals do. I read about photography all the time, and I try to absorb some few elements of what I've read. Right now I'm playing around with wide angle lenses and shutter speeds. I've played around with the macro lens. I can't get enough of it all.
Film is more noble, I think. Film requires one to be good every single time out. I'm not that good yet.
8. I haven't heard much about your short story "The Longest Distance" coming soon in the anthology NO SUCH THING AS THE REAL WORLD. What is it about?
This is about a young woman trying to survive her best friend's unforeseen suicide. It was inspired in part by the tragic events that took place in my own home town a few years ago.
9. Briefly describe your favorite birthday celebration.
My mother threw me a sweet sixteen surprise party that will always rank as the world's greatest unexpected delight, because somehow or another, she got the great Jim Clancy, the high school star, to show up in my very own basement. Who knows how she did that, but I'll never forget it.
10. If you had the chance to do anything you wanted, no constraints, no consequences, what would you do?
I'd live in a place that tested me for a few months, that every day brought something new and inexplicable. And then I'd bring that world back home, in words and in pictures. And I would sleep in late every now and then. And someone else would cook the dinners.
Beth is offering a really cool prize: the last ARC of NOTHING BUT GHOSTS - signed. No really, they randomly found two ARCs when they thought all of them were gone. (Being the Birthday Girl, I snatched one.) Plus, there have been changes made so you'll be able to compare the ARC to the final. Evolution at it's finest.
Follow the rules darlings. And yes, saying Beth is totally awesome is on topic. But that goes without saying, right?
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Beth - I hope it was a good surprise.
Emily Ruth - you're entered. You can click on the rules link to learn how to get extra entries and to enter other contests.
Vivian - Thanks for stopping by! I'm glad to meet a fellow fan of Beth.
Alea - I am SO JEALOUS. And you're entered, so good luck.
Melissa - I'm not huge on historical fiction, but I'd read it if Beth wrote it.
Leigh - Well, tell me when you finish it because I want to read it. And I'm glad you liked the questions! It takes me forever to write interviews. (As you know since you to had to wait for questions from me . . . )
Priya, Kelsey - Thanks for stopping by! Glad ya'll enjoyed it. Be sure to read the other days as well.I've read A Slant of Sun several times and really love it. I am now putting her other books on my TBR pile and enjoying her blog. I'd be so happy to win an ARC of NBG! Please enter me. I'm a follower now.
I had a little trouble finding the rules to the contest. Your link on the word "rules" goes to Kephart's vlog, not the rules post.Wonderful interview. Thanks. This book sounds awesome. I love the title. I love that you share books with your son. I do that. We've gotten in the habit of passing books back and forth then discussing them. I love it. My son didn't care for reading as a hobby for a long time so I'm thrilled to share it with him now.
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals (SYMBOL: INO) is one of most interesting and potentially revolutionary biotech companies on Wall Street. They are a company on the verge of changing the landscape of future vaccine treatments, utilizing a DNA platform to target specific and designed results.
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The transcript of my interview follows:
BRG: Good morning, Dr. Kim, and thank you for taking the time to answer some questions about the history, current focus and direction of Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
BRG: I would like to start by asking you to comment on your history with Inovio. It is often cited by some biotech bloggers that Inovio is a 30 year old biotech with no products and plenty of dilution. However, you came to Inovio in 2009. Can you set the record straight as to where Inovio was 30 years ago and as to where Inovio is positioned now?
Dr. Kim: 30 years ago I was 15 years old. The idea of DNA vaccines had not even been conceived.
In 2000, I formed VGX Pharmaceuticals with my PhD mentor, Professor David Weiner, who is recognized as the father of the field of DNA vaccines, using technology licensed from the University of Pennsylvania. David was instrumental in formulating the concept of DNA vaccines in the early 1990s.
Like any powerful new scientific concept, bringing commercially useful products to fruition is typically a multi-decade process: monoclonal antibodies are a prime example. Apart from their success with cancer drugs like Herceptin, monoclonal antibody technology is today the basis for another new class of medicines called checkpoint inhibitors. But it took a couple of decades for the first FDA approval of a product based on this science.
In the case of DNA vaccines, there were a number of elements that had to be resolved and refined, including: targeting the right antigens and immune system mechanisms, enabling sufficient cellular uptake of the DNA vaccine, and facilitating sufficient production of the antigen by the cells.
Dr. Weiner's lab has made tremendous advancements in DNA vaccine design to refine their immune system targeting and to optimize their ability to generate significant antigen production by cells in the body.
One of the big remaining challenges was delivery. While many scientists focused on other methods such as virus or lipid carriers, these approaches have all faced important unique challenges to their efficacy. In 2006, Dr. Weiner saw the first results of testing he was doing to deliver DNA vaccines using electroporation. The results were exceptional!
VGX subsequently acquired a private company called Advisys, which possessed electroporation technology, in 2007. In 2009 we further strengthened our competitive positioning in electroporation by merging with Inovio Biomedical, which had a leading electroporation patent estate and engineering know-how. These two steps solidified and provide Inovio Pharmaceuticals as you see it today with the broadest and deepest electroporation technology assets and patent estate in the world. Today our electroporation devices are based on the unique attributes of the Advisys CELLECTRA electroporation system.
The history of Inovio Biomedical (previously named Genetronics ), which merged with VGX in 2009, and its predecessor companies does in fact date back to 1983, when that company was formed to develop electroporation devices for use in research labs for ex-vivo applications, i.e. for use outside an organism. In fact, the company at one point became the #2 seller of such devices in the research marketplace. While the original idea of using electroporation to enable cellular uptake of an agent is the same, earlier generations of laboratory electroporation devices, methods and conditions bear no resemblance to the refined and optimized parameters we use today for using electroporation directly in humans.
The fact is that it is DNA vaccines and immunotherapies that are now proving to be the ideal agent to best leverage the delivery capability of electroporation, creating so to speak a higher and more valuable purpose for that delivery technology. At the same time, electroporation has raised the bar of success in terms of resolving one of the multiple parameters that had to be resolved to advance DNA vaccines to the point where they could provide medical utility. This has all materialized in the last 10 years.
Today Inovio continues to apply the greatest amount of R&D and clinical resources to DNA vaccines and electroporation and has by far the greatest data set and expertise relating to the use of these technologies together for medical applications in humans. And we have a clinical and near-clinical pipeline of nine studies for multiple cancers and infectious diseases.
BRG: Touching on electroporation, can you provide a layman explanation to exactly what this technology does and how it benefits delivery of a vaccine?
Dr. Kim: The way a DNA vaccine works is that it provides genetic code for a target antigen relating to a cancer or infectious disease to a cell. The cell's natural machinery for producing useful proteins for the body can then take the code and instead produce the targeted antigenic protein(s), which are then presented to the immune system to induce the desired immune response. For all of these processes to occur productively, the DNA vaccine must be taken up into cells of the body in sufficient quantity to allow the cells to perform this role as a manufacturing facility. This is where electroporation fits in.
Immediately after we inject the vaccine into muscle or skin tissue, our electroporation applicator applies millisecond electrical pulses for a just a few seconds to create pores in the cells' protective membrane. These temporary pores allow an increase in uptake into the cells by 1000 fold or more compared to without electroporation. The electrical pulses do not cause unwanted immune responses or toxicity.
BRG: As revolutionary as electroporation is proving to be, the delivered payload is still the vital piece of the puzzle. Can you discuss the "payload' being delivered through electroporation as it relates to DNA vaccines and your SynCon program?
Dr. Kim: Thanks to the modern science of genomics and fast computing power, today we can take the genetic code for one or more antigens relating to a cancer or infectious disease, build that into a DNA vaccine, and employ that in a very controlled manner to produce enough antigen in the body to induce a desired immune response. This DNA code cannot recreate an organism - it is for the antigen only. The additional benefits of DNA vaccines are that they can be designed in weeks, are readily manufactured using scalable off-the-shelf fermentation technology, and they are more stable at room temperatures than conventional vaccines.
But all DNA vaccines are not created equal. There are proprietary optimization techniques that Inovio has designed to further enhance the production of the antigens by the cells. Furthermore, Inovio's novel SynCon design technique results in antigens that are similar to but do not precisely match those that exist in nature. Using this approach, we can create preventive vaccines able to provide more universal protective capabilities, overcoming the "one bug, one drug" paradigm of today in which the vaccine must match the circulating strains. We can also use the SynCon design to help break the immune system's tolerance of cancer cells that are made by the body, i.e. to more readily recognize and fight the cancer cells. Importantly, all our SynCon product sequences are patentable.
BRG: While discussing payload, it is important to note that phase ll results for your treatment of cervical dyplasia caused by HPV, namely the VGX-3100 study, are scheduled to be released by the middle of 2014. Is there some publicly released data that you can discuss that leads your team to expect positive results?
Dr. Kim: There are two important elements to this forthcoming data. One is obviously the efficacy of this therapeutic vaccine against these cervical pre-cancers. What will be no less important, however, is the immune response data. If we confirm (relative to our earlier data) the excellent characteristics of our T cells in this larger controlled study, this will further build the enthusiasm for our technology. Here is why: cancer cells have the ability to ward off T cells sent to kill them. When checkpoint inhibitors such as PD1 inhibitors achieve compelling results, it is because they are enabling T cells to perform their SWAT team function. So checkpoint inhibitors have shown unequivocally that T cells have a vital role to play in fighting cancers and infectious diseases. When checkpoint inhibitors have not achieved compelling results, anecdotal observations suggest that is because there is not a sufficient level of pre-existing, antigen-specific T cells. While this passive immunotherapy approach releases the brakes that cancer cells can apply to T cells, they don't have the ability to trigger a higher level of T cells. So we need a gas pedal; we need acceleration. That is where Inovio's active immunotherapy comes in. We can actively generate and expand cancer-specific killer T cells.
There are other relevant anecdotal observations. Women who naturally clear cervical dysplasias and HPV have been observed to have high levels of T cells. Similarly, sex workers at high risk of contracting HIV who have not become infected or sick have also been observed to have high levels of T cells.
So, going back to the phase II clinical study, if we show efficacy and confirm strong T cell generation, we will validate the potential of our technology and products as a monotherapy, i.e. a stand-alone therapy, against diseases, where the T cells alone are able to overwhelm and clear pre-cancers and potentially cancers. But industry players and smart investors have also been noting to us that they see important potential of our technology as a combination with complementary technologies such as checkpoint inhibitors: if we confirm the ability of our platform to repeat our previously generated best-in-class T cell responses in this larger controlled study, they will be convinced of the long term potential of our technology and products as the necessary active immunotherapy side of the equation.
The excellent T cell data from our HPV and HIV DNA immunotherapies highlighted in two published studies is what leads our team to be so optimistic about the phase II results fulfilling the above outcomes.
BRG: Biotechs are results driven, however, it is encouraging when large pharmaceutical companies recognize success. Can you discuss what initially brought Roche to the bargaining table and the significance of this partnership through the clinical trials, other than from simply a financial standpoint?
Dr. Kim: It's all about the T cells. All of the explanations prior to this question explain what is attracting industry players to our technology. We have published over 70 peer-reviewed papers covering our preclinical and clinical study results since 2009. In fact, Roche and other Big Pharma suitors first learned about our early development work for the products licensed by Roche from such publications.
While the financial benefit of this deal is very significant, Roche's commitment at this stage of our development simply emphasizes the degree of strategic weight they are applying to an active immunotherapy capable of generating strong T cells.
BRG: Speaking of partnerships, you have alluded to potential additional partnerships during prior conference calls. Can you elaborate on what areas of clinical study that new partners would be interested in developing a deal over? And, is there a particular company that you feel would be the proper fit to your company vision?
Dr. Kim: We have a broad spectrum of cancers and infectious diseases we can target with our products and technology. By the end of this year we will have a complete stable of cancer immunotherapies targeting multiple key antigens that we believe have the greatest potential impact to treat the full spectrum of cancers. We also have DNA vaccines advancing through R&D for other important infectious diseases. What matters to us most is that the partners we commit to have strong competitive positioning in the areas that they wish to partner with us and that they are making a significant commitment to achieving future success in those areas using Inovio technology.
BRG: Even without new partners, you have stated that the year 2014 will dwarf the prior year, which can be classified as a breakout year, at least for the price per share. What do you see as the main catalyst to dwarf the results of 2013?
Dr. Kim: Without question the phase II data will be a key event for us: a first look at efficacy; and T cell immune response data from a larger controlled study. This data could be a significant driver of industry and investor interest. This study data also represents the first opportunity we have to directly link generation of antigen-specific T cells to clinical efficacy. We will also initiate multiple additional clinical studies this year, which will expand the perception of Inovio as having a broad pipeline with multiple shots on goal and additional forthcoming data that in aggregate will all help to continue building our expertise, ideas for further optimization, and potential for success with our DNA vaccines delivered using electroporation.
BRG: Liquidity is often a concern for small and emerging biotech companies; however, you have placed Inovio in a position of comfort from a cash standpoint. Can you elaborate on what you feel is a comfortable level of cash on hand for Inovio even with partnership agreements in place?
Dr. Kim: Capital is a strategic variable for any biotech company like Inovio. We will do our utmost to ensure that we are not relying just on third party grants and cash flow from partnerships and have a strong internal war-chest. We are truly at an important transformational point of our technology development, where we can advance on multiple disease and product fronts. As is visible through recent announcements, we are moving forward on another optimization approach for our DNA vaccines: that is to further refine the immune response with DNA-based cytokines. We also announced our DNA-based monoclonal antibody technology with our first publication of data in this promising field last year. The full potential of Inovio's technology "toolbox" is way beyond the DNA vaccines visible today. We are not standing still.
So capital is good. More capital is great. We don't want to dilute our stock without consideration of shareholders - and I am the largest shareholder - but being well-capitalized allows us to negotiate more strongly with potential partners and advance our technology and product developments at a competitive and advantageous pace. It allows us to build and maintain leadership. As an interesting example, from 1995 - 2005 Gilead raised $1.6 billion in equity capital, with its related dilution. I doubt that any shareholders from that time who continued to hold Gilead are today unhappy with Gilead management's strategic decisions to raise and invest capital and the share price that resulted from those decisions.
BRG: Inovio has zero debt currently on the books. Do you ever see Inovio utilizing debt to further your clinical studies?
Dr. Kim: Debt is an instrument best used when a company is aiming to leverage a proven technology in the marketplace. We have no intention to use debt until Inovio is more advanced in its developmental and commercialization process.
BRG: Speaking of cash and the availability to increase cash reserves, you recently filed a Form-3 which can seek approximately $125 million dollars over the next three year period. Several writers tried to exploit this filing as a weakness for the company and that dilution is on the horizon. Can you explain the reasoning behind the filing and to what extent, if any, you would plan to draw on these available funds?
Dr. Kim: We are striving to build an excellent company and maximize shareholder value over the long term. Only traders looking for short term gains would argue against a company being well-capitalized. Most eligible biotech companies have shelf registrations in place. It is normal course business practice. We will ensure the financial strength of the company in the most opportune fashion.
BRG: Other than the science, cash is king for any biotech company. Pending successful results of the VGX-3100 trial, would you entertain a partnership or would Inovio rather keep the prize at hand and use funds from the S-3 filing?
Dr. Kim: If the results of the phase II warrant advancing to a phase III, I would expect Inovio to be well-positioned from a valuation perspective to secure incremental capital to fund such a study, but we would also be willing to partner. It all comes down to valuation and terms.
BRG: Back to the science. The pipeline at Inovio has showed tremendous early stage results. What trials and studies are you most excited to move into the next trial phase?
Dr. Kim: We look forward to taking VGX-3100 and starting two new clinical studies for HPV-related diseases: cervical cancer and head and neck cancer. We will be adding a DNA-based cytokine, IL-12, and look forward to assessing this approach in a clinical setting.
I am also very excited about our planned initiation of a human study with our therapeutic vaccine encoded for hTERT, an antigen whose over-expression is seen in over 85% of cancers. In this first exploratory study, we will be treating patients with breast, lung and pancreatic cancers. These results will help guide future combinations and clinical studies.
In the end, I am excited about everything we are doing. We have the potential to generate important medical results in all the disease areas we are targeting and the cumulative knowledge from all these applications will continue to guide our R&D efforts.
BRG: After mid year results are published for the VGX-3100 trial, what is the next focus for you and your team to progress to a Phase lll trial?
Dr. Kim: We are already laying the groundwork with respect to designing a phase III trial design. This will not be completed until we analyze the data and confer with the FDA in an "end of phase II meeting."
We are also planning for scaled up manufacturing.
Post-data we will also consider prospects for a partnership.
BRG: On a personal level, 2013 was a special year for you, earning several honors and accolades. How does it feel to be honored by your peers and do you think that they smell success for Inovio as well?
Dr. Kim: Naturally, it always feels good to be acknowledged for your effort and accomplishments and our whole team deserves to be recognized with these honors and accolades. Whether it is awards, the partnership with Roche, or the positive feedback we get through the frequent dialog we have with industry people and very knowledgeable institutional investors, we are clearly seeing their recognition of the importance and potential of active immunotherapies alone or in combination with other technologies including passive immunotherapies such as checkpoint inhibitors. Much of their recognition of the potential of active immunotherapies is being driven by the important outcomes achieved by DNA vaccines delivered using electroporation. Do they smell success? People may think large pharma have lots of resources to spread around. And they do - but they are no more motivated to fail or waste time on useless endeavors than we are.
On the investor side, you can see that a fundamental investor, a fund called Candriam Luxembourg, established an initial position in Q3 last year. They are a $100B fund out of Belgium. With the latest institutional shareholding report, we have seen First Eagle step in. I expect to see other new positions established by fundamental investors.
So do industry players and smart investors smell success? You and your readers can be the judge of that.
BRG: If you could tell the investment community one thing about the direction of Inovio in 2014, what would it be?
Dr. Kim: There is only one thing that matters: Inovio is working to build a great immunotherapy company with the potential to become the next Gilead or Amgen.
BRG: To your critics who simply will not leave the year 1986 alone as their focal reference point for Inovio, how would you advise them to view Inovio since 2009?
Dr. Kim: I think all the pertinent information has been provided in the prior answers. Let's call a spade a spade: there is risk in biotechnology development. And yes, there are steps forward and backward. But anyone that chooses to be a naysayer with respect to Inovio and its progress has typically not referenced the positive steps that Inovio has taken that show the accomplishment and potential of its immunotherapy technology. So they are either incapable of recognizing our progress or they choose not to recognize our progress. We are clearly seeing the evidence that industry players and fundamental investors are acknowledging Inovio's capabilities and accomplishments. Their credentials are simply so far beyond the credentials of the critics that it should be obvious to any purposeful reader which opinion and "vote" really matters.
BRG: Finally, you are the largest shareholder in Inovio. Do you see yourself buying additional shares in the near future, barring quiet and prohibited periods?
Dr. Kim: Clearly, I have chosen in the past to vote my confidence with my wallet. I added almost half a million shares with purchases in the open market over about 12 - 18 months. In fact, my financial net worth is about 99.9% concentrated in Inovio stock. While I don't comment on my future purchases, I do feel that INO's valuation today is very attractive relative to the potential of our technology and the many products that may be advanced based on this technology.
End interview.
Disclosure: I am long INO. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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