We are pleased and honored to provide our readers with an excerpt of Barry Stoller’s fascinating e-book bio of record producer, impresario, musician, raconteur Terry Knight, who was tragically murdered at the age of 61 last November. (Knight scored the film linked above, The Incident). I (Who Have Nothing): The …
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Book Review: The Tailor-King by Anthony Arthur
Is human nature today the same as it was 50, or 500, or 5,000 or 50,000 years ago?
Read More »In Search of Fatima, by Ghada Karmi: Review
Imagine you are a seven-year-old who's known years of escalating conflict, suddenly transported to an entirely foreign land.
Read More »History for Nothing: Clicks for Free
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (that's of the UK) is offering free access over the weekend.
Read More »Book Review: War Reporting for Cowards
Ayres presents his feelings of terror and pain during nine days "embedded" with the marines during the invasion of Iraq.
Read More »The Quill Awards: New Literary Award
The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.
Read More »Book Review: Magical Mystery Tours
It seems the catalogue of books about the Beatles is limitless. Written as an “insider” view, Magical Mystery Tours is a gossipy and intimate entry in that catalogue. Tony Bramwell grew up with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon in Liverpool. Bramwell was around as the three began playing …
Read More »Book Review: My Friend Leonard
It takes a bit to get used to James Frey’s memoirs, both typographically and stylistically. None of the paragraphs are indented. Quotation marks are not used to delineate speech or conversation. Stylistically, Frey would probably flunk most basic composition classes. Many of his sentences are basically run-on streams of consciousness. …
Read More »An adventurous woman
... her real ambition was to go to the Congo, and that was where she went next ...
Read More »Baby of Bataan
Escaping difficult family circumstances, Joseph Quitman Johnson enlisted in the US army at the age of fourteen and was stationed with the 31st Infantry in the Philippines in April 1941. After Pearl Harbor, his coming-of-age adventure turned into a nightmare of combat and suffering. Johnson survived shelling and hand-to-hand combat, …
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