A Boomer and His Books

The year 2021 was an odd one for me as a reader. Much of the reading I did was done in the service of some article I was writing. I’ve always wanted to write a long essay in praise of twentieth-century aviation fiction – i.e., novels written by the likes of Ernest K. Gann, Robert…
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In 1994, at the age of 36, I found myself unemployed and in need of money. A downturn in the real-estate market had cost me my job in the…
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Legend has it that Otto Preminger was so abusive to Thomas Tryon, the star of Preminger’s film The Cardinal, that Tryon gave up acting after completing…
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I have friends who are involved in all kinds of noble activities, from helping the homeless to saving the environment. Through the years they have…
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I’ve spent enough time in bookstores – as both an employee and a customer – to know that, in many ways, they are small representations of the world at…
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This essay was originally published in the now-defunct magazine Vocabula Review, in 2008. Ghost stories and other types of horror fiction abound in…
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When I first started visiting rare book shows, back in the 1980s, I was told by many a dealer not to bother collecting the editions put out by The…
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The story of the workers-rights movement in America is, for the most part, a sad one. It has inspired a lot of downbeat – and famous – novels, such as…
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A Boomer and His Books

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