Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan (Science Fantasy Novel, 2022). I basically liked this book-length debut (the author has had short fiction and nonfiction published before in various mainstream literary journals) quite a lot, so my difficulty in classifying it is, perhaps, not overly important. It’s a good, well-written and meaningful story–especially welcome and […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Walk the Vanished Earth"Have I Told You This Already? by Lauren Graham (Humorous Essays, 2022). This is Graham’s 3rd book of humorous essays about aspects of the actress/writer/producer’s life experiences (she’s published one novel, as well). Not having read the other titles and knowing of her only from her screen work, I had no idea what to expect. […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Have I Told You This Already?"My brief but powerful anti-war cloning SF story “Our Jack, Reconstituted” has been accepted for Shacklebound Books’ anthology TROOPERS, Volume 2. This book will appear in digital, e-book and paperback editions (I’ll let everyone know details as I receive them). This will mark my story’s 3rd appearance, after March 2020 (online at FLASH IN A […]
Read more "WRITING NEWS: December 21, 2022"Poster Girl by Veronica Roth (SF Novel, 2022). Veronica Roth’s latest presents an impressively imagined, dystopian near-future society that was built around the constant surveillance of everyone’s every action, no matter how trivial. The United States has come apart into multiple self-governing districts with the focus on the Seattle-Portland megalopolis. Growing up there, the somewhat […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Poster Girl"Suspect by Scott Turow (Legal Thriller, 2022). Scott Turow’s latest legal-oriented thriller features an array of vivid, well-drawn characters and a solid plot. Clarice “Pinky” Granum is a kind of funky, commitment phobic but gutsy young private investigator. She works for a criminal defense lawyer who has just been handed a case that involves scandalous […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Suspect"Aftermath by LeVar Burton (SF Novel, 1997, re-issued 2022). I have a great deal of admiration for LeVar Burton as an actor and literacy advocate. And I knew he’d written a couple books aimed at and for children. But until I a copy of this re-issue at my local library I had no idea he’d […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Aftermath"The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: Paul Newman by Paul Newman and Stewart Stern, compiled and edited by David Rosenthal (Memoir, 2022). This is an unusually candid and interesting book, but it’s also a most unusual memoir. You first need to understand how it came to be, 14 years after its subject and titular […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: Paul Newman"The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Classic 1st Novel, 1970). First novels are often flawed, even in the case of great writers. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked this up, despite both the book’s and the author’s stellar reputations. So let’s just say this outright and without delay: The Bluest Eye is […]
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