Check Out My Restyled Writerken.com
Check Out My Restyled Writerken.com. Please do. I’ve changed the focus because of the enthusiasm generated by my newly-published memoir, A Streak of Dakota Dust. It’s an exciting time for me, and…
Introducing A Streak of Dakota Dust
Introducing A Streak of Dakota Dust. I’m pleased to announce that my memoir is now available for pre-order and will be released on August 11. I’ll tell more about the book after…
Theo of Golden: A Review
Theo of Golden: A Review. Do you know of this impressive novel and its unusual history? How unusual? Well, it was initially self-published in 2023 and sold over 170, 000 copies before…
Re-reading a Russian novel, after 65 years, Part 2
As I mentioned earlier (1), my first taste of The Brothers Karamazov came more than six decades ago. I swallowed that jumbo novel in big bites, dazzled by Dostoevsky’s grasp of…
Re-reading a Russian novel, after 65 years
I read The Brothers Karamazov (here) a long time ago, when I was an undergraduate. By that time I had learned (finally!) that rounding up a cluster of neurons and throwing them…
My First Year of Blogging, and My Books (Part 2)
Below is the second installment from the beginning of my revised memoir. This part is newly added and does not appear in the original Bending the Twig (See here). As I explained…
Ben Franklin on inoculation
From time to time, when itching for a snippet of diversion, I’ll head to one of my book cases and scan the spines, searching for something to perk me up. I found…
Ranking Russian Novelists
I was an undergraduate when I read The Brothers Karamazov, my first Russian novel. I powered through that mighty book in one intense weekend, shielded from interruptions by the closed door of…
Group Think
I apologize for the lack of activity here for two long weeks. I’m working on other projects and haven’t taken time to post anything fresh here. Yesterday, Independence Day, I heard someone…
John D. MacDonald
Do you know of John D. MacDonald? He was a highly prolific 20th Century writer with amazing talents. He usually is classified as a mystery writer, or a writer of crime and…
