On the Nightstand…

When last we looked, I had finished Homage to Catalonia and was sorting my way through Lawrence and the Arabs. My bedside lamp was being propped up by The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Let’s see how they turned out. In the meantime, you have told me about...

Bloom,

In yet another twist to my highly acclaimed series of book reviews, I give you not a book but Bloom, a funny, one-act, two character play. And, in a slight variation of the accepted practice of reviewers not actually reading the book they tell you to buy, I also twist...

Writers on Deck: Spain, and The Red Car

When I was about 10 or so I read a book, The Red Car, in which a boy in a farm town somehow manages to buy a wrecked MG, repair it, and go on to races and adventures. For the rest of my school days I dreamed of driving out of town in my sports car, going on to a life...