Thursday, January 29, 2015

Elmer Kelton, Texas Showdown

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This book is actually two short novels by Elmer Kelton, first published in the 1960s and reissued under one title by Forge in...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Adverts from McClure’s Magazine (1907)

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Every work of fiction tells us something about the audience and the times it was written for. Today, however, we may have trouble pictur...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Soup

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Aerial ballet (more pics below) Turns out the dread I felt about my first infusion as I started into the drug trial at UCLA was unnece...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

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I guess you’d call this creative nonfiction. A former colleague recommended this book to me after reading some of my thoughts on the life...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Now available: How the West Was Written, Vol. 2 (1907-1915)

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David Cranmer over at Beat to a Pulp Press has just announced publication of Vol. 2 of my book series, How the West Was Written. It cont...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Illustrators of early frontier fiction:
Frank E. Schoonover

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Frank E. Schoonover Born in New Jersey, Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972) was a painter and illustrator, who studied with influential ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Uneasy alliance

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Another day So now I am officially lending my body to medical science. Last week we made a trek to the neurooncology department at the...
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