Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast
THE CURRENT I just finished reading another “Bookin’ with Sunny” novel that I couldn’t put down. Tim Johnston’s The Current, a mystery thriller that careens
It’s been 30 years since the first publication of Neuromancer, the essential cyberpunk novel. A jaundiced response to the 1980’s “morning in America,” cyberpunk is a bastard
Because I grew to maturity during the Viet Nam conflict and because many of my male friends at the time were impacted by decisions about
Norman Mailer’s the Naked and the Dead was on my bedside stack for years. No longer able to avoid it, I read the 1998 50th
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,
In Redeployment, Phil Klay joins some heady company in American writing about war. His short stories here may be favorably compared with those of Tim
The Missing, Tim Gautreaux – Monday, OCTOBER 2ND – 7:00 pm Clayton Community Library
OLD AGE: A BEGINNER’S GUIUDE Although Old Age is tangentially about death and dying, it’s humorous, engaging, and rejecting of the customary platitudes. Kinsley has
The Emerald Mile – Kevin Fedarko’s pitch-perfect prose describes the 1983 fastest white-water run down the Grand Canyon. A must-read for white-water enthusiasts. I wish
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