Stories By John Holt
Fiction Reviews
The Right Madness – by James Crumley
May 17, 2026No one else tells the stories like Crumley, has his voice, his confidence or absolute fearlessness...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental – by Rex Johnson, Jr.
May 16, 2026One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
May 12, 2026Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
May 11, 2026Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...

Non-Fiction Reviews
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 9, 2026The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
December 12, 2025Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient...
Fiction Reviews
Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales – by by James Ellroy
December 12, 2025Anyone who reads “Balls to the Wall” will gain a true, bloody taste for a slice...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – by Steve Bodio
December 12, 2025The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with...
Fiction Reviews
Down Here – by Andrew Vachss
December 11, 2025The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful...





