The Name of Things
A childhood friend on Facebook recently called me a Republican. On our playground sixty years ago, I would have pushed her into a snow bank. I was a ‘bully’ (as the girls daily named me). But Republican? She lives a thousand miles away. The grade...
Liars and Storytellers (4): Reason to Believe
If I listened long enough to you I’d find a way to believe that it’s all true Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Reason to Believe, Lyrics by Tim Hardin, 1965 ‘Everyone has their own...
Liars & Storytellers (3) (Background)
“Life’s becoming better, sweeter,” the poster announces. Deception begins with truth, however thin, The Great Famine, 1931-32, witnessed 6-8 million Soviet deaths by starvation. Indeed, in 1934, when this poster appeared, life had gotten better....
Liars and Storytellers: The Project
Liars and Storytellers is a non-fiction book project, which examines…here we go… liars and storytellers. I know a great deal about them. Our generation as did our brothers’, uncles’ and fathers’ generations fought those who in the name of socialism...
The liar speaks truth: Deception and working truth (7)
Relatives visit the farm. Outside, the temperature was -25F. High winds swirled snow devils NW>SW across the south field. We had returned from X-C skiing. He picked up a book on Soviet intelligence operations in mid-twentieth century America. “That proves Joe...Featured Books
Ледоход/Spirit Falls (Dual Language Russian-English)
Ледоход/Spirit Falls provides a dual-language facing page paperback suitable for either Russian- or English-language students, the first novel in Robert Townsend's Long War Series.In 1947, the Soviet security services named the United States as 'the main enemy.’ The Cold War was joined. Four teens, born half-worlds apart, children of their nations' greatest generation, come of age in the 1950s, each in their small-town Eden, cast out to encounter one another on the front lines in the war for control of the imagination.
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