
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
June 21, 2026Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 20, 2026His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 18, 2026If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...

True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
June 16, 2026True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
June 16, 2026Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 15, 2026In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke
June 15, 2026Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going...






