Year: 2007

What seems like an eternity ago – newborn children will do that to your sense of time – I read the first two books in the Looking Glass Wars se...

What seems like ages ago I received James Lee Burke’s short story collection Jesus Out to Sea.  I had not read any Burke – short story or novel...

I guess Michiko Kakutani didn’t care for Susan Faludi’s recently released THE TERROR DREAM Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. Here is the first ...

In a late, but worthy, response to my Comic book contest.  I asked for a comment or post on “why you think comics are an important art form.” A...

I didn’t intend to take the week off, it just kind of happened.  I seem to have underestimated the time and focus changes in my off-line life would e...

As a student, and former teacher, of history I am always interested to see how authors and publishers attempt to present the grand sweep of history.  So wh...