Literary journey of an office career escapee
Ike Savich wanted to play baseball for the soul and carve the US presidents from stone for money. He never wanted the words he’d scribbled to pour out his tremendous guilt to see the light of day. And he certainly never cared about meeting real gangsters, whose names everyone knew from papers. Yet, since this... Continue Reading →
I am yet to read a John Steinbeck book that I didn’t enjoy, and ‘Travels with Charley’ definitely hasn’t broken this circle. The legendary author’s novels are very different, and each of those that I’ve read impacted me differently. What they have in common is that they all have left a lasting impression, an aftertaste,... Continue Reading →
Will Tinkham did it again. Swept me off my feet and into yet another totally immersive story, where the characters feel real rather than fictional and America becomes intimately familiar rather than a faraway continent across the ocean. “The Cary Grant Sanatorium and Playhouse” is the ninth book in Will Tinkham’s Americana series that I’ve... Continue Reading →
This is the seventh book in the Americana series by Will Tinkham that I have read, and I definitely don’t plan to stop until I read them all. Thanks to the author’s immaculate skill, each story fuels my desire to learn more about the diverse set of characters he created. On the pages of this... Continue Reading →
