Walter Becker, RIP

Walter Becker slipped away last year, causing barely a ripple in the media. He was half of the writing team of Steely Dan, along with the more forward Donald Fagen, since their days together at Bard College. Their music defined my 1970s,along with that of many of us who were more cerebral than, say, Eagles …

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Inspiration

I am proud to be published by Karen Myers‘ Perkunas Press, and even prouder to be the first writer in her Behind The Ranges imprint. Karen chose her title well. Kipling was my first and is finally my favorite writer; as he wrote about “Janeites”, obsessive fans of Jane Austen, so I am “Rudyardite”, with …

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Bird

He looks pretty relaxed these days. Now to find him some quarry…. The next is from another life, forty- some years ago, when I lived in the January Hills, ate roadkill, and edited a journal of Renaissance studies. That’s Cinammon, one of the two best hawks I have ever had, stolen from me not once …

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It’s a book!

Tiger Country is available from the publisher, in various formats… and from Amazon here. Some good people have said nice things about it. Malcolm Brooks, the hyper- literate author of Painted Horses, says: “Steve Bodio brings his legendary Renaissance vision to this startling first novel, a work so mammoth in scope and elegant in execution …

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