World War II | World War II
May.30.2012
This is really a movie about Martha Gellhorn. To paraphrase her: here, Hemingway is the footnote to her life.
Nicole Kidman is an eminently capable actress; she seems to lose herself elegantly in this somewhat tainted, overly dramatic portrayal. Clive Owen's acting skills have always...
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May.28.2012
We've been searching for a new bank/credit union. Our current institution pays a low, low APR resulting in next to nothing in dividends. We want to stay local, however, but that's not the interest I'm thinking of right now. I'm thinking about the economy and politics.
I read an article about...
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May.01.2012
My latest piece, joining among others Bill Ayers (on dinner with Tucker Carlson), Amiri Baraka (on the evil of charter schools), Aram Saroyan (on Diane Arbus) and Scott Spencer (on the Allman Brothers) is up at www.firstofthemonth.org. (If your screen claims "Not a Valid Address," like mine does,...
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May.01.2012
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.- William Campbell Gault
There have been probably thousands of blog posts,...
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Apr.27.2012
image via blogmuseupicassobcn.org
My writing partner, Lyn, and I are taking divergent paths in writing - which is extremely OK. I'll leave the explanation of her writing path to her (she's a teacher and most capable of articulating her excellent writing style and structure), but I've taken a...
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Mar.10.2012
Now that both my parents have passed away, I find myself increasingly interested in the World War II era. And now that The Gate House is scheduled for re-release in May, I am almost ready to submit the sequel to The Gate House, which has a working title of Lydia’s Story....
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Mar.03.2012
Manstein – Hitler’s Greatest General, by Major General Mungo Melvin
image via online.wsj.com
One of the things that interests me about biographies is the ability of the writer to depict historical events, not chronologically necessarily, but centered about the personality...
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Feb.10.2012
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
In past blogs I’ve described the many things my grandfather's ghost shared with me, across the dotted line between life and the hereafter. Now I’d like to mention his great...
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Feb.09.2012
Three days after handing in the copy edited manuscript, I am still recovering. I’m back at work on Velva Jean in Hollywood (that’s not the title, by the way), but I’m still feeling a little too depleted to write anything vaguely coherent.
So for now, I wanted to share some of my research for...
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Jan.28.2012
In teaching Ray Bradbury's landmark short story "A Sound of Thunder" to 98 sophomores this fall, I was bemused to learn that for today's average teen, the phrase "the butterfly effect" evokes more conversation about Ashton Kutcher than about the concept of time travel. Not surprisingly, my students...
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