Coal Black Horse, an American Civil War novel by Robert Olmstead, is poetry in prose, and a quest story both straightforward and profound. A mother —…
Amazon | indie bookstore My Struggle is described by its American publisher as “the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.” Over…
Ironweed (inspired by William Kennedy’s novel) All Saints retire leaving the graveyard to dead souls a moss-green child opens his box to confessions The right-hand…
My book review of poet Steve Scafidi’s book To the Bramble and the Briar is posted at Civil War Monitor: LINK I hope the review will…
W. asked Corning [candidate for the pulpit of the Unitarian church on Benson street]: “And what may be the subject of your sermon tomorrow?” “My…
I’m honored that my article on Fredericksburg National Cemetery is the Memorial Day feature for The New York Times Disunion column. The source of the Walt Whitman quotes…