The following review of my début novel Mind the Gap was published today by Reader Views, of Austin, Texas. Reader
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Fear is “an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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As I learned while writing my novel Mind the Gap, it takes a lot of work to create fictional characters
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In the beginning was the forest. And the forest was no place to get lost at night, because after sundown
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E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a master of the fantastic and grotesque. Author, composer, music critic, lawyer, reluctant Prussian bureaucrat, he
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Dreams are often more gratifying than waking thoughts. Dreams take us wandering through imagined mindscapes where we break free from
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The Saint is best known as a 1960s television series starring Roger Moore, and as a 1997 film starring Val
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I remember interviewing John Julius Norwich a few years ago. A popular historian and entertainer, he told me cryptically that
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Jean Potocki was a strange figure. A bundle of contradictions from the late 18th/early 19th century, he was a wandering
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In this archival interview, musician Emily Doolittle says she devoted her doctorate in composition at Princeton University to the songs of blackbirds and humpback whales. She also composed a chamber piece incorporating some blackbird themes. And then George experiments with other kinds of music based on Nature sounds…
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In 1987, I interviewed Leah Nuturak, a 104-year-old Inuk woman from Pangnirtung on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. She
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In October 1992, Pierre Trudeau defended his constitutional legacy during a memorable speech at the Maison Egg Roll, a Chinese
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