Category: Books

The Thin Man Goes to the Head

I’ve just been reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man again and discovered something odd in it. Well, two...

Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...

I got a modest check in the mail this week connected to my book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous...

Famous Last Words: “Mrs. Tope’s care has spread a very neat, clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before...

I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...

I’m presently wrestling with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a fact I’m sharing because I came across a mention...