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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...
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'...
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, tamarack limbs turn...
Winter night
West view, Morning, January 2015 The Four Seasons Winter The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the...
Moscow: Deception and working truth [3]
Deception in Moscow, 1961 The 'middle morass' of The Executioner's Son, that miserable time when, between the sparkling first scenes and a dramatic conclusion, you sit in that writing swamp struggling to "The End." A...
Winter morning
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...
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
Two down; three to go 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...
