BOOKS

The old maxim “never ever judge a book by its cover,” could also be said of the book’s author. M. Scott Carter maybe a political journalist for The Journal Record, but the nature of his day job does not restrict his interests in what he chooses to write about as a novelist. Rather, his career [...]

I like songs about drifters, books about the same/ They both seem to make me feel a little less insane–Isaac Brock, “The World at Large” Lately when I think about Jack Kerouac I think about a story told by his old friend David Amram, a French horn player, composer, farmer, gifted talker and poet who [...]

Every year, our family escapes the normally drab, gray Oklahoma winter for several days of waist-high snow and skiing in Colorado, but this year, the snow we left was almost as high as the snow that greets us upon our arrival in Aspen. However, I feel somewhat consoled by the fact that we no longer [...]

I took a good look at the work of Susan Sontag a few years ago, and an imaginary camaraderie remains between us. If an author is intriguing beyond their work, I like to read about their lives. A year ago, I read a book at the downtown library on Susan. It was poorly written but [...]