Stories By John Holt
Fiction Reviews
City of Fire By Robert Ellis
February 15, 2025There are red herrings aplenty, but once finished reading the novel I’m left with a sense...
Fiction Reviews
Trashed by Alison Gaylin
February 14, 2025These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the...
Fiction Reviews
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
February 10, 2025The novel is set in the lake country of northern Minnesota and the wilds of bordering...
Crime Fiction
The Fighter by Craig Davidson
February 2, 2025James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and William T. Vollmann have some new company hanging out on their...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
January 29, 2025Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
Fiction Reviews
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
January 28, 2025The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
January 28, 2025I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
January 25, 2025I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Fiction Reviews
The Works of Max Crawford
January 23, 2025Being a serious writer in a time when swill by corrupt business tycoons, politicians and not-funny...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Walking It Off – by Doug Peacock
January 23, 2025Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...




