Macho! by Victor Villaseñor
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …
Tag Archives: Fiction:American
The Long March – William Styron
Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …
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 …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
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 …
Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
Properties of Light — A Novel of Science and Sorrow
Being intrigued by the mysteries of physics, especially the exotic regions of quantum mechanics, does not mean understanding an iota …
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, a Novel
Looking at a bookshelf while stopping through Winslow, Arizona I didn’t see a girl in a flat bed Ford but …
Elmore Leonard is El Hombre
Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …
Trans Atlantic by Colum McCann, A Novel
I took a break from my usual fare of fiction and philosophy about the darker reaches of human nature to …
Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …
The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …