Early in 1964 two aging men lie dead of gunshots in the back. They’re sprawled on the pavement in an alley in a seedy uptown neighborhood. One is J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary Director of the FBI. The other is Assistant Director Clyde A. Tolson, Hoover’s lover. But when police rush to...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Joseph Heller, who wrote Catch-22, once famously defined a novel in which “something happens.” He even later wrote a novel with that title. (It wasn’t very good.) So, it’s reasonable for a reader to expect upon digging into a book-length...
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Name just about any billionaire in the tech industry, and Kara Swisher is sure to know him. In fact, she’s probably interviewed him several times onstage at her events or her podcasts or for her New York Times column, the Wall Street Journal, or one of the other publications she’s...
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Kyiv, Ukraine, 1919. Everything is scarce in this city of half a million souls. Food. Water. Electricity. And chaos reigns. Control of the city and its suburbs shifts from week to week among warring factions. The Red Army. The Whites under Denikin. And armed peasants aroused by local warlords....
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Let’s say you want to write a superhero story without superheroes. What do you do? Simple. You endow ordinary people with superhuman intelligence and enhanced senses by implanting something in their brains. Chips, maybe. Or nanocytes. Then suddenly...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.