Magazine Review: Lapham’s Quarterly: Spring 2015 Swindle & Fraud Edited by Lewis H. Lapham Mr. Lapham’s literary magazine is based on the principle that history has much to teach the present on many subjects, so presents excerpts from many famous (and not so famous) authors on a loose topic for the education and entertainment of… Continue reading Magazine Review: Lapham’s Quarterly: Spring 2015 Swindle & Fraud
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Book Review: Death on a Warm Wind
Book Review: Death on a Warm Wind by Douglas Warner (also published as The Final Death of Robert Colston) When newspaper editor Michael Curtis witnesses a man being gunned down in front of the Evening Telegram office, he’s startled to realize that it’s Robert Colston, a man who’s already been declared dead twice. Robert Colston, who has… Continue reading Book Review: Death on a Warm Wind
Book Review: Kitty Genovese
Book Review: Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences by Catherine Pelonero Disclaimer: I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. I am not quite old enough to have any firsthand memories of the coverage of the March 13, 1964 murder… Continue reading Book Review: Kitty Genovese
Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl – All This Time
Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl – All This Time by Brian Bastian & Bob Lipski Uptown Girl was a Minneapolis-produced minicomic first published in 2003 and running for 75 monthly issues. This is a “best hits” collection with the creators’ favorite single issue stories. Uptown Girl is a reporter for a Minneapolis newspaper who has… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl – All This Time