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The Prophet by Michael Koryta: a book review

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

Half the storefronts are empty in Chambers, Ohio.  Abandoned steel mills stand as silent monuments to a past that will never return.  Two brothers, Kent and Adam Austin, work in two of the biggest industries that remain in the town … Continue reading →

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The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer: A Book Review, Part Two

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

If you haven’t already read it, please begin with Part 1 of this review:  http://wp.me/pYql4-1vt We left the young king in a most unusual and disconcerting situation – carrying the corpse of a hanged man across a charnel ground.  The … Continue reading →

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The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer: A Book Review – Part One

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

Heinrich Zimmer (1890 – 1943) was a Sanskrit scholar, an Asian art historian, and an expert in Indian philosophy and spirituality.  After the Nazis dismissed him from Heidelberg University in 1938, he made his way to the US where he … Continue reading →

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Openings

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Recently I was chatting with a group of other writers about the rule of thumb that you have to grab your audience in the first few pages or lose them.  The consensus was that nowadays, you have just the first … Continue reading →

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More on, “So Cold the River”

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

(Warning: spoilers ahead) It is rare and delightful to find a book I hate to see end.  It is rarer to find a creepy book I hate to see end, and this is the first time ever I have hated … Continue reading →

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A Family Ghost Story

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

I heard this from the time I was very little, a story told by my great-grandmother, Hannah Outwater, ne Shook. I was twelve when she died at the age of 86 or 88. Her gift of an animal hand puppet … Continue reading →

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