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The Orphan Master’s Son: A Chevron Ross Book Review
Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 is bound to think of the hapless Winston Smith while reading Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-wi...
Best Recollections: A Canticle for Leibowitz
This is my latest installment about books that are the pride of my collection. I occasionally read them again for the pleasure of savor...
The Sentence: A Chevron Ross Book Review
Louise Erdrich follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Night Watchman, with another perspective on Native American culture and it...
How to Market Your Book Without Going Bankrupt
Being an independent publisher can be very discouraging. You spend months or years writing a book, only to have readers ignore it to de...
The Dutch House: A Chevron Ross Book Review
This is the first book I’ve ever read whose text and cover captivated me equally. It’s as though the author and the artist were the sam...
What Was Lost: A Chevron Ross Book Review
What Was Lost could have been two different novels: a delightful children’s story about a girl sleuth, or a gothic tale of urban despai...
The Girl in the Red Coat A Chevron Ross Book Review
Don’t you wish sometimes that you could recapture your childhood talent for adaptability? To welcome new experiences, rather than fear ...
The Lincoln Highway A Chevron Ross Book Review
In his previous novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles had great fun creating a hotel oasis for an aristocrat in Joseph Stalin’s Rus...
Answers to Last Week’s Quiz
I’m sorry to report that nobody entered the contest I posted on last week’s blog. So nobody won the prize: a free copy of Weapons of Re...
A Literary Quiz for You
This week’s blog is a chance to win a prize.
I will send free copies of my novel, Weapons of Remorse, to the first three p...