Review-A Prayer for Owen Meany
Confession: I am not a subjective reviewer. John Irving was my first teacher at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He was smart and friendly. […]
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How Politics Works
On Upton Sinclair’s I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked: I meant to get this issue of The Scoop out on February 1 […]
The Cartel
I don’t write many reviews. Neither do I read many fat novels, as I’m rather compulsive about finishing what I start and if a fat […]
Thanks Grandma, for Ivanhoe
My grandma, a master storyteller and descendant of some noble folks from England and Scotland, was understandably a devoted fan of Sir Walter Scott. Since […]
Read Dennis Lynds
Here’s a quote I appreciate for obvious reasons: In a New York Times opinion piece about racism and classism and what might be done to […]
The Ripley Series
I love series books. Reading a masterful series, I get to follow characters as they grow, or at least learn more about them in each […]
Alan Russell’s New One
You might call me a fan of Alan Russell, since I’ve read all of his books and I’ll probably continue to read each new one as […]
Little Drummer Girl, A Review
When I was seventeen, just out of high school and still in deep grief for my best friend, dead from riding shotgun while a careless […]
A Bestseller Everyone Should Read
NO CATS, NO CHOCOLATE BY KEN KUHLKEN AND ALAN RUSSELL CLIMBS THE AMAZON BEST SELLER LISTS #4 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, […]
Before you vote for a business person, read this book
I write novels set in California, some of them during the early years of the 20th century. So I read lots of books about that […]