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Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set a Watchman Author: Charles J. Shields   When I say the name Harper Lee I immediately think of To Kill a Mockingbird: I remember Scout and Jem, Boo Radley and Tom and Atticus Finch like I remember some of my own family memories.  When I think of Hemingway I think Jake and Lady Brett; Faulkner is always Benjy the idiot, his sister Caddy, his brother Quentin.  But only To Kill a Mockingbird resonates in my heart in a way that ... continue reading...

Mortal Fall Author: Christine Carbo Glacier National Park colludes with Christine Carbo to present a background character that guides the novel’s characters to solve the murders of a famed biologist and a pedophile ex-teacher and mapmaker in Mortal Fall.  The two murders occur days apart, and very close together beneath a treacherous road area in GNP, the Loop.  Paul “Wolfie” Sedgewick’s fatal fall from the cliffs near Going-To-The-Sun Road is unbelievable to Glacier National Park police ... continue reading...

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All Time Greatest Hits Author: Mark Binelli Belligerent, dramatic, clutching, creative and enervating …. Mark Binelli is one hell of a writer.  His prose style parallels the strange life of the outrageous life of Screamin’ Joe Hawkins, a Man Who Played Blues with One Single Hit.  His acct was phenomenal: he had pallbearers carry him onstage inside of a coffin and he busted out onstage screaming his lungs.  Partly an act.  Partly because he was terrified to be in the ... continue reading...