Book Reviews
Uncle Kurt and Holocaust
On 16-17 October, 2019. Â The United States Holocaust Museum sponsored Patrice's 89-year-old Uncle Kurt Maier, Emeritus Librarian, Library of Congress (German collection). Kurt, a Holocaust survivor with a wicked...
Perfume River – The storyteller and truth
The Storyteller and Truth Robert Olen Butler and Perfume River The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is in my estimation the...
On Bullshit: Liars and Storytellers
On Bullshit and On Truth I had long visualized the lexicon landscape between The Truth and The Lie as a continuum along which lay a rich and varied vocabulary––deception, denial, camouflage,...
On Truth: Harry Frankfurt
Why am I doing this? I’ve lied and the shame burns to this day. Someone I’ve trusted lied to me; the injury heals as slowly as a gunshot wound. I’ve...
Thirteen Coats, A Translation (from Russian)
Thirteen Coats, A Translation Serge Kotlar and I (Yay!, Merrill, Wisconsin) translated Thirteen Coats from Russian to English  as research for the next book in The Long...
Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:
While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...
Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis
The Centerville Code Justin A. Day (pseudonym) with Jan Weeks published The Centerville Code forty-two years too late for me.  It is a 10-13 year-old boy...
Robert Olen Butler and A Small Hotel
Robert Olen Butler (A Small Hotel) I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients. Al Alvarez [caption id="attachment_488" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Robert Olen...
