Stories By Michael

Non-Fiction Reviews
Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
December 25, 2025The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...
Anthropology
Follow the California Literary Review on Twitter
December 13, 2025Readers can now receive our latest postings through our new Twitter account, calitreview.
Philosophy
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
December 10, 2025According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White
December 5, 2025"When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book,...
Religion
An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
December 4, 2025"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
Performing Arts
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
December 3, 2025"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Who Killed JFK? – An Interview With Lamar Waldron
December 3, 2025"...we discovered that JFK and his brother had a never-before-revealed plan to stage a coup against...
Death
An Interview With Author Mary Roach
December 3, 2025"Helen Duncan is my favorite. Huge, chain-smoking woman who used to swoon and occasionally pee herself...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Fred Pearce
December 3, 2025"But water also defines quite well our problems in moving from a world of apparently plentiful...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview with Michael Ruse
December 2, 2025"I do not think it appropriate to teach non-science in a biology class – especially non-science...





