Celine. The a heroine is a 67 year- old New Yorker of upper- class background with emphysema and a drinking problem, controlled but not gone. She is a private detective. Her “Watson” is her husband, an ex-communist lobsterman named Pete. She faces down a biker gang in a Red Lodge MT bar with the simple …
Tag: Books
Wall Street Journal!
The fine writer Jonathan Rosen (The Life of the Skies) did me the great favor of reviewing Hounds of Heaven for the WSJ Review Supplement’s Christmas Books issue. What is more, he showed that he understood the theme of all of my work. If you don’t subscribe, the review is behind a paywall, but here …
Art Show and Catalogue
“Our” art show opened in Memphis this week and by all accounts is a total success. How could it not be with walls like these? And especially paintings like this: !Here is the book, with my contribution. Buy it, you won’t regret it! Thanks especially to the perfect editor and curator, Kevin Sharp; to Toby …
Quote: a Preview of Cat’s New Book
“I have been in many countries and there is not a Kangal anywhere. That is why the world will be at war soon. If everyone had my father’s dogs, things would already be settled. In my home . . . the wolves will come for something that is not theirs. The Kangal finishes it all …
Brad’s Miss Jane
Brad Watson’s new novel makes the NYTBR— above the fold, with a photo one that one friend teased “has that Sam Shepard vibe”. Congratulations! I like all of Brad’s work, but this one is rich- ma ybe his best? I will give it proper review when I finish UPDATE: Here is an even better review …
Visiting the American Museum
For a certain group of American naturalists, probably mostly for boys growing up in the fifties, the AMNH in New York City, referred to familiarly as “The American Museum”, was the greatest influence, almost a mentor in itself . (Though one must be wary of such sweeping statements. Will Beebe probably did more for women …
Pre-review
I read Larry Millman’s At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic, a few months ago, and was so impressed I immediately gave him him a blurb. I didn’t give it any more thought until checked today to see when it was coming out, and he told me they …
Helen on tour in Santa Fe
.. as promised. My camera refused to charge, so all photos are Reid’s or Helen’s. The more “formal” ones are Reid’s, at the signing; the others, in the motel room, Helen’s. I am changing meds and screwed up my doses, so had to leave the dinner; the whole crew just came to my room at …
A Mongolian Progression….
Most books by Roy Chapman Andrews are interesting, but inexpensive. In his day he was a popular writer, and even early titles like Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera (!) and Camps and Trails in China are not too hard to find. Not so The New Conquest of Central Asia. As it is the record …
C J’s latest project
C J Hadley came over as a young girl from Birmingham in England, and worked at Car and Driver magazine in its legendary years, when the late David E Davis ran a strong stable of writers and illustrators. It may be advancing age, but I think magazines were more colorful then, perhaps because they were …