Mark Strand, April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014 Keeping Things Whole In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature Midway through The Bohemians, Ben Tarnoff describes “the seed of California humor”
The Bookseller introduces us to a new series featuring Hugo Marston. Much to my delight, I accidentally discovered a new mystery series (or new to
I am a bit late on letting my readers know about this project: The Date of Disappearance M. Allen Cunningham, better known as Mark Cunningham
Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax
Reading Journal 7 – How Important is Age or Grade Level as a Marketing Tool? In the past couple of weeks I have had the
HUÉ 1968: A TURNING POINT OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM Mark Bowden, who wrote the phenomenally successful Black Hawk Down (book and movie), has
SWEET PROMISED LAND AND ROBERT LAXALT, THE STORY OF A STORYTELLER Aside from Mark Twain’s Roughing It, Robert Laxalt’s, Sweet Promised Land (1957, 2007) is
Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Let me tell you a story. Growing up in the 1950s, I
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Although Atomic Comics was reviewed by Sunny earlier on this site, as an old-time comics fan, mostly from the
REBEL CINDERELLA Adam Hochschild renews my faith in biographers and the art of biography. Rebel Cinderella models the very best of this sort of intellectual
This book, a mere 146 pages of text, is jam-packed with wonderfully offbeat information about a variety of American writers and their homes, now designated
The eight short stories in Mark Maynard’s collection, Grind, all take place in Reno, Nevada; not the Reno where I live but the other Reno,
Every time I read a list of what different magazines or websites declare their favorite books for the past year (2013), I’m astounded at how
Self-reliant and self-deprecating, innovative and ironic, the intrepid main character of The Martian is stuck alone on Mars. One of six crew members on an
THE MAKING OF SOME LIKE IT HOT Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot is listed as No. 14 of the hundred greatest movies and
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