The Doomsday Machine: Daniel Ellsberg — This is Not Fiction
So, you like scary stories? Something to keep you awake and afraid? Here’s one for you: not thieves in the …
Category Archives: Audio Available
Herman Melville — Who are the Real Savages?
For those of you who are decades away from reading Herman Melville or find that what you remember of him …
The Battle Cry of Freedom — The Beginnings of the Civil War
In these years when many have worried aloud about a neo-civil war brewing between American shores it is somewhat …
A House Divided: Vituperation in the Beginning
One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to …
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Somehow, in all my years of reading, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, 1952, never entered my great river of books, even having …
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
It’s hard to know what words to use to praise a book like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. It’s not a …
William Faulkner and WW I: A Fable
Since I’ve been sparse in posting these last weeks, for various (all good) reasons, I thought I’d re-post this look …
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert …
A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones
A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector …
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
I am knocked out! Listening to the Audible version which she, herself, reads. Highly recommend. The timbre of her voice as …
The Sixth Extinction — We’re It
From the first major extinction event on earth to the present is about 443 million years. That’s a lot a …
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home
Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and …