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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Road Signs
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories -
Thoughts from the Aerie
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Memoirs and essays on a range of topics
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories 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: India
The Cold
The main life event I am experiencing right now is the excruciating cold here in Yakima, Washington. As I write this at the desk in my bedroom, the window is frozen shut and icicles hang along the inside of the … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Travel
Tagged cold weather, hitchhiking, India, memoir, Nepal, Rivisondoli, Seattle, travel, Yakima
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Book Review: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri; Part Two: The Book Itself
Before I delve into an appraisal of the novel, I need to mention something that struck me before I even read the first page. The cover (of the first edition hardcover) is not worthy of the book. It is bland, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Bengali culture, India, Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland, West Bengal
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Book Review: Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
This is a fairly comprehensive biography on Tagore, starting with a chapter on his grandfather and culminating in his death. After he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 he was an international celebrity, considered one of the two … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Bengali language, book review, Gandhi, Gitanjali, India, Nobel Prize, Rabindranath Tagore
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Book Review: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta; Part Two
In the first part of this review I shared some of the memories of my own time in Bombay that the reading of this book evoked. It’s a long book, and whether you have lived in Bombay or not, it … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Travel
Tagged Bollywood, Bombay, book review, India, Jains, Maximum City, Mumbai, Suketu Mehta
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Book Review: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta; Part One: Perspectives
I’m only about a third of the way through this long book, but it has brought up so many impressions and memories that I feel I must write them down. So this is not so much a review of the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Travel
Tagged Bombay, book review, India, Maximum City, Mumbai, Suketu Mehta, travel
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Book Review: Deep River by Shusaku Endo
While searching for the novel “Silence” by Shusaku Endo at the local library I came across one of his later novels, “Deep River”. “Silence” is better-known and considered by many to be his masterpiece; Martin Scorsese is planning to film … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, On Writing
Tagged Ganges, India, Shusaku Endo, spiritual truth, Varanasi, Writing
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