ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
Perfume River – The storyteller, the young man, and truth
The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is one of America’s finest authors, and his just-released book, Perfume River, is his finest...
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,...
Winter to Spring, Northern Wisconsin
March 14, 2015 Over the last several days, the temperature has risen from -30F to +60F yesterday (well, +56F). Nice. At below-zero temperatures, tamarack limbs turn brittle and easy to...
Winter night
The Four Seasons The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the moon's reflected light. Just above the SW horizon, Mercury...
Winter morning @ Farm
Hoarfrost: It remained on the trees, seemingly renewing every night, for the second week of December (2014). On other nights, the sky was clear and the full moon rendered the...
Upon a long road
Colorado's Mt. Wilson, an actor in the novel "The Wounded" Dubai Fountain. I look out on the pool and fountain. I have...
A Simple Plan
There is a recent novel, A Simple Plan, where two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffel bag contains four million dollars...
Long Road: Dresden to Dubai
Novelist seeking words in storied lands Our budget year abroad is approaching an end. Our strategy was to live where it was inexpensive (Rovinj, Croatia) to afford better (Dresden, Germany), then...
