Covid-19 and what we’re reading
Well, friends, it’s March 31 and for me Day 18 of confinement with no human contact. Oh, I don’t have IT and never did have IT. But I’ve been social […]
Category Archives: Books
Shocking! The banned books on your bookshelves
This is a story I wrote for The Hutchinson News for Banned Book Weeks, Sept. 21-27. If you were at Hutchinson High School in 1976, you may have read Lois […]
Revisiting the Titanic: Three books
Last year, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of more than 1,500 lives, produced television specials, the re-release of James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic […]
Into the Silence, by Wade Davis
When Britain launched the first three recorded assaults on Mount Everest in 1921, ’22 and ’24, the nation was still recovering from the trauma of World War I, as were […]
Two Irish travel yarns
I found Pint-Sized Ireland by Evan McHugh last weekend in a used book store in Dallas. There were at least 20 copies on the shelf, and having blown through the […]
Bent by the wind 