Painted Horses
Painted Horses So many thematic threads appear in Malcolm Brooks’ novel, Painted Horses, so many ideas for mulling and musing. The romance of antiquity and
Painted Horses So many thematic threads appear in Malcolm Brooks’ novel, Painted Horses, so many ideas for mulling and musing. The romance of antiquity and
Tahoe Blue Fire – An Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller I’ve been reviewing Owen McKenna Tahoe mysteries for several years now and almost all have been
Silent Echoes, Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton For a recent wedding anniversary gift, my wife bought me The Art of Buster
More than four centuries ago, Thomas Nashe published The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) in English and Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote (1605) in Spanish. Together,
SWEET THUNDER Ivan Doig’s Sweet Thunder follows one of the characters from his earlier novel, The Whistling Season, into maturity. Perhaps you’ll remember him as
The Ox-Bow Man, A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Man is the biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, a man who loved
John Henry “Doc” Holliday: Southern landed gentry, classical pianist, consumptive, classicist, dentist, gambler, alcoholic, loyal friend, detective, and horseman. In Russell’s fictional version, Doc Holliday
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West Many authors, especially those engaged in contemporary nonfiction nature writing, have dealt with the
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,
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir & California Missions Sometime in the mid-1950s, the California State Board of Education decided all fourth grade children should learn
Dorothy Wickenden, the author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, describes the story of her grandmother’s year in
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