Mr. Brown’s Books
This is one of the most scorching reviews I have ever read.
Tag: expats
The First “Great American Novel”
Its two marriageable-age young women, Alice and Cora, are central to the tale…
A Black Day
October 12, 2015: A black day I’ll never forget.
“If you want to test a man’s character…”
Much is being revealed now about the predatory sexual behaviors over the years of a famous and extraordinarily powerful film producer…
“You Are Here”: Dublin
On Friday evening we flew to Dublin from nearby London Luton airport for a weekend visit with Irish friends…
The Answers We Always Seek
My cousin (my late novelist uncle’s son), his wife, and their three sons have lived for years in Newtown, Connecticut…
An Unvisited Subcontinent
I find myself increasingly wanting eventually to write something that includes India. What I consider a major hurdle, however, is I have never been there.
“So you are a patriot…”
I got stuck briefly while writing yesterday and took a break. (I’m working on that short story, which it seems is now evolving into a short book.) Something made me pick up Distances…
A Dangerous Fantasy
I stumbled on this by British author and historian Leanda de Lisle on Twitter yesterday:
Webs Of Stories
Some local English lore for a Friday. A road name. I’d thought a prominent family named “Coward” might have once lived on, or their farm perhaps bordered, what is now the nearby Codicote street of that name:
