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“First it was a mother pushing a baby carriage” the author writes. “then it was the eastern European speed walker now it was the postman…” Passing years and physical inactivity do cruel things to a former athlete like put him... Read More
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. —Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science Man has looked to benevolent or malevolent supernatural forces for explanations of prosperity and... Read More
Teachers tell aspiring authors “Write what you know.” Dalan McEndree took that advice to heart. The author is familiar with Russia no question. That his knowledge of that terrain assures him an audience for his thriller Kormushka is... Read More
A fugue is a musical term for a style of composition written in a fixed number of parts or “voices.” Here in Michael Brown’s She and I: A Fugue the author employs a multitude of lyrical techniques such as line breaks rhythm and... Read More
Photojournalist Susan Madden Lankford has, in her own words, “always been interested in incarceration and confinement,” but she found her true subject when a homeless man challenged her to learn from the homeless themselves what life... Read More
The planet Xirca is a curious place—one side always turned toward the sun and the other always dark. Some of its people live on the dark side in caverns heated by volcanic activity and use the flaps of skin that stretch between their... Read More
Orville Hodge was a quiet boy from Indiana. Tall and lanky he did as he was told was polite and rarely talked to other people. What he loved more than anything was baseball and much to his surprise he found himself playing ball for the... Read More
What do groceries have to do with the success of Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest brokerage and investment firm? As an expert on the historical development of American financial services from colonial times to the twentieth century,... Read More