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March 22, 2005
Horatio Hornblower: A Brief Look
I’ve come late to the delights of C.S. Forester’s Hornblower novels. I say late, although it’s true that one encounters a writer’s work at whatever time he finally picks it up and reads it, no matter when that may be.Posted by ds at 10:45 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 17, 2005
Max Brand: Exemplary American Author?
Frederick Faust publicly disdained the popular fiction he wrote. Yet he pounded out millions of words of it on reams of paper on a manual typewriter for years, and lived “high on the hog” (as one of his cowboy characters might say) thanks to that same writing.Posted by ds at 10:33 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 02, 2005
The Wilderness Series Launch
I remember how thrilling and wonderful I thought the Robert Redford film, Jeremiah Johnson, was when I saw it in the theatre many moons ago. (And I suspect that fictionalized account about Liver-Eating Johnson was cleaned up by Hollywood.)...Posted by ds at 01:43 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 01, 2005
If the Pulps Still Thrived: Charles McCarry as a Contemporary Blue Book writer
Imagine, if you will, that two venerable pulp magazines focusing on adventure fiction -- one aptly named Adventure, the other Blue Book -- still can be found on magazine racks in convenience stores and chain bookshops....Posted by ds at 11:12 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Sgt. Rock: Now and Then
Sgt. Rock of Easy Co. was the only war comic character I really, really liked when I was a kid in the 1960s...Posted by ds at 10:19 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
