by mike | Sep 21, 2020 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 11,587 of the Coronavirus Pandemic (give or take): feels like it anyway, right? We all want it to be over, but the reality is that the blasted thing will likely be around for a long time to come. We’ll just have to deal with it as best we can. Meanwhile, 200,000...
by mike | Sep 10, 2020 | Baseball, Books, Magical realism, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
Major League Baseball is paying tribute to the late Roberto Clemente, a great ballplayer and an even greater humanitarian. In a post about the late writer, W.P. Kinsella (author of “Field of Dreams”), I had included excerpts from one of his short stories, “Searching...
by mike | Aug 27, 2020 | Books, Editing, Films About Books, Films About Writers, Movies, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Was renowned writer Thomas Wolfe a stable genius? This post first ran in 2016. With regard to the 2016 biographical drama, Genius, I could have added “Films About Editors” to my blog as a new series. But really, how many films have book editors, such as the legendary...
by mike | Aug 24, 2020 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 9,254 of the Coronavirus Pandemic (give or take)—did the Mayans get it wrong, or did we misread their calendar? Was it 2020, not 2012, that would mark the end of the world as we know it? I mean, civil unrest, a world-wide plague, wildfires decimating my beloved...
by mike | Aug 17, 2020 | Books, Life, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Something excellent happened for WOMEN last week. This post, which I presented a couple of years back, was relevant then, and I think it is even more so now. Recently, I discovered something about myself that, quite honestly, I did not like. It has to do with a...
by mike | Aug 13, 2020 | Books, Films About Writers, Movies, Museums, Uncategorized, Writing |
Hardly seen by anyone, this film is an excellent study of a great writer. I first presented the post in 2016. I first saw this 2016 film six months ago, during a limited release in the U.S. I’m talking real limited—hardly in any theaters, and in most cases for no...
