Stories By John Holt
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Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
May 19, 2022Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
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Environment
The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
May 17, 2022Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...
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Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Anthropology
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
October 23, 2021Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient...
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China
Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – by Steve Bodio
October 22, 2021The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with...
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Crime Fiction
Down Here – by Andrew Vachss
October 22, 2021The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful...
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Crime Fiction
Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales – by by James Ellroy
October 22, 2021Anyone who reads “Balls to the Wall” will gain a true, bloody taste for a slice...
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Nature
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, Judith E. Moores
October 20, 2021How do we understand the natural forces that literally shape our world? How, over time have...
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Nature
Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection by George Black
October 19, 2021Some years ago, back in the days of its relative anonymity, fly fishing was considered an...
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Fiction Reviews
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan by John Coyne
October 18, 2021At the risk of being cold-hearted, though after reading this book I don’t seem to care...
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