September 13, 2024
The Most Disturbing Novels
I was going to write an article about an article I read that suggested the…
March 10, 2023
Excerpt from a work in progress
It appears, specifically in the mini-bio of The World’s Classics publication of Faust: Part One,…
November 11, 2022
“A Cool Million” by Nathanael West
There are many books out there. Nathanael West wrote four of them in the 1930’s.…
October 8, 2021
Fuh-net-ik-lee rit-en nah-vuls
Man, I’s sure sometime ‘ave me a heck of a time readin’ dem accents an’…
August 20, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – the Novel
Cool, Tarantino wrote a novel based on his film and released it in paperback before…
April 28, 2021
“In Cold Blood,” In for a Nap
I’ve been reading Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” for years, and I’m bored. This is…
April 28, 2021
Is This Anything? Yes. It’s a book by Jerry Seinfeld.
Hey, Jerry Seinfeld's got a book out called Is this Anything? It's a collection of…
January 7, 2021
Philip K. Dick’s “The Chromium Fence”
Philip K. Dick (author of Minority Report, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , and…