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Worlds Elsewhere – Journeys around Shakespeare’s Globe Author: Andrew Dickson A wonderful tome on not only the life of Shakespeare but a history of Shakespeare and his influence in Europe and North America, Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere fascinates, educates and illuminates our fascination and love of Shakespeare and his plays.  Through four continents and 400 years, Dickson illuminates Shakespeare’s own love of travel and foreignness while he gives us Shakespeare as the Accidental Tourist across ... continue reading...

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...