Comments Off on Book report: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or
Comments Off on Book report: The French Connection
The nice thing about reading a book prior to seeing a subsequent cinematic adaption is that you can go in fresh, with no notions or expectations. So when I picked up a copy of Robin Moore’s
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I’ve been a James Bond fan since I was a kid, when I rented just about every Bond film available (actually my mom rented them, but whatever) and spent countless hours absorbing them. But for
Having only read one other Anne Rice novel (you guessed it, Interview With the Vampire), I learned some interesting things about her from reading her beefy 1990 tome, The Witching Hour. I learned
There are some names in literature that for some reason intimidate me before I even read a word of their work. Since I’m not a voracious reader I think I have a tendency to put some authors
Comments Off on Book report: The Once and Future Spy
Having recently read the magnificent spy epic The Company for the third or fourth time, I decided it was finally time to explore some of Robert Littell’s other works. So for no particular