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Macho! by Victor Villaseñor

3/11/2021

Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …

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The Long March – William Styron

9/6/2017

Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979)  he wrote a slim …

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William Faulkner and WW I: A Fable

1/11/2016

Since I’ve been sparse in posting these last weeks, for various (all good) reasons, I thought I’d re-post this look …

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Redeployment – Stories From A War

4/23/2014

Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home

1/2/2014

Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and …

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Company K — Americans in France, WW I

11/9/2013

William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …

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Properties of Light — A Novel of Science and Sorrow

9/27/2013

Being intrigued by the mysteries of physics, especially the exotic regions of quantum mechanics, does not mean understanding an iota …

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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, a Novel

8/26/2013

Looking at a bookshelf while stopping through Winslow, Arizona I didn’t see a girl in a flat bed Ford but …

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Elmore Leonard is El Hombre

8/23/2013

Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …

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Trans Atlantic by Colum McCann, A Novel

8/20/2013

I took a break from my usual fare of fiction and philosophy about the darker reaches of human nature to …

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Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found

6/6/2013

Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book!  Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …

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The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco

5/31/2013

Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …

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