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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Greece
Another Look: After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
Greece has always been regarded as the birthplace of western civilization and a Mediterranean paradise. In The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer uses the magical epithet rosy-fingered dawn to describe the sunrise over a land of myth, fascination, and mystery. … Continue reading
Book Review: The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton
This book is relatively new, having been published in 2021. It was recommended to me by one of my sons; soon afterwards I found out that another of my sons was also reading it. In short, it is a superb … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, Constantinople, Greece, Greeks, Ottoman Empire, Roman Empire, Thessaloniki
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A Second Look: After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
Greece has always been regarded as the birthplace of western civilization and a Mediterranean paradise. In The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer uses the magical epithet rosy-fingered dawn to describe the sunrise over a land of myth, fascination, and mystery. … Continue reading
Posted in Greece: A Memoir, Travel
Tagged Athens, Greece, Greeks, memoir, Thessaloniki, travel, traveling
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Book Review: Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein
Lately I have come to realize that I am getting old. I should have known it already for some time now because numbers don’t lie, but I have been able to ignore my age so far because of my excellent … Continue reading
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Tagged Epicurus, Greece, Greek Islands, old age, travel
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Book Review: Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
I picked this book up at the library because I thought that it was a memoir on traveling in Greece. And it is, sort of; at least part of it is. I’d say about a third of the book or … Continue reading
Book Review: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
This brilliant book was slow going for me at first until I understood what the author was up to. I expected it to be a memoir, but it takes more of a journalistic approach. The author received a fellowship to … Continue reading
Book Review: Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis
I don’t know how many people remember Nikos Kazantzakis nowadays. He’s known mainly for two novels that became acclaimed and controversial movies: Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ. When I was a young man obsessed with becoming … Continue reading
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Tagged Greece, Henry Miller, Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, The Last Temptation of Christ, travel, Zorba the Greek
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A Second Look: After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
Greece has always been regarded as the birthplace of western civilization and a Mediterranean paradise. In The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer uses the magical epithet rosy-fingered dawn to describe the sunrise over a land of myth, fascination, and mystery. … Continue reading
Book Review: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
I’m winding up the reading of this book; I’ve got about a chapter and a half to go. It’s time to set down a few words about it, mainly because I have a block of time to spare. It’s Sunday … Continue reading
Book Review: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
In my last post I wrote down some thoughts this book inspired in me about how its themes relate to the world of publishing. Now I want to directly confront what it says about global economics. The basic premise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Daron Acemoglu, foreign aid, global economics, Greece, Greek economy, James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail
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