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Monday, June 29, 2026

Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life by Hal Needham

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Tall tales of moviemaking dripping with testosterone Growing up in the 1970s, I enjoyed the movies directed by Hal Needham: Smokey and th...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Westerns by Elmore Leonard (Library of America)

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The modern master of the genre The Library of America is a nonprofit publisher that puts out authoritative hardcover editions of works b...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Part II: 1940–1943

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Finding his stride, but still all over the map This is the second of three posts reviewing the complete short stories of Edgar Allan Poe....
Monday, June 22, 2026

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee

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Fascinating tetrabiography of sci-fi luminaries J ohn W. Campbell (1910–1971) was the longtime editor of Astounding Science Fiction mag...
Monday, June 15, 2026

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe

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A long story but only half a mystery “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s better-known mystery “The Murders in t...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit

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Charming time travel adventure for kids I don’t read much children’s literature, but occasionally I’ll try a classic book that was intend...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris

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Liberal common sense, well-argued American science writer Timothy Ferris published about a dozen books on astronomy before the 2010 relea...