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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: television
Book Review: Rock Me on the Water: 1974: The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics by Ronald Brownstein
Whether or not its premise is entirely accurate, this book is brilliant. The premise is embodied in the subtitle. According to Brownstein, 1974 was the pivotal year in which Los Angeles became the epicenter of the entertainment industry and radically … Continue reading
Life Is Entertaining
This essay came about because of a terrible commercial I’ve been seeing lately on various TV and internet sites. In it, a certain A-list Hollywood actor walks around a city, and as he does, scenes such as those that appear … Continue reading
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Tagged contemplation, meditation, television, Writing
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Book Review: The Powers That Be by David Halberstam; Part One
“The Powers That Be” is the story of how media became an important shaper of events in the mid-twentieth century. It was first published in 1975, when it was contemporary. Now, of course, it is history. It deals with newspapers, … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, David Halberstam, Ed Murrow, John Kennedy, Joseph McCarthy, magazines, media, newspapers, radio, Richard Nixon, television, The Powers That Be
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Book Review: Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by David Bianculli
If I had to pick a decade that was germinal for me I would probably not pick the sixties but the seventies. I was a teen in the sixties, true, but I was a late bloomer. I didn’t really absorb … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, censorship, counterculture, sixties, Smothers Brothers, Summer of Love, television, Woodstock
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