by bertbaby | Aug 30, 2013 | Book Reviews
The author of The Good Lord Bird talks about John Brown, Coltrane, and writing from the uncomfortable chair.
by bertbaby | Aug 30, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 30: The Moscow–Washington “Hot Line” was established on this day in 1963. A Cold War icon, the Hot Line was the direct result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which exchanges between the Kremlin and the White House sometimes took...
by bertbaby | Aug 29, 2013 | Book Reviews
Fifteen stories implant the fantastic within a resolutely ordinary world.
by bertbaby | Aug 29, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 29: Atahualpa, last ruler of the Incan Empire, was executed on this day in 1533. The storied details of Atahualpa’s captivity and death — his failed attempts to save his life with rooms of gold, and then with a conversion to Christianity — and...
by bertbaby | Aug 28, 2013 | Book Reviews
Why this 1903 “Record of Secret Service” may be the first great modern spy novel.
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