… and now Parade  magazine and the friend of a dead columnist are in on the act: LIVING Names of America: Where Did "The Big Easy...

 Wherein New Orleans's most promising, patrician politician meets the least palatable constituents, mortality-wise.  From the just-rel...

When my novel,  World's End,  first came out the reviews were good ( http://www.fearlessbooks.com/WorldsEnd.htm ) but more than one cri...

                It wasn't the end of the world, but close:      The phrase, "The Big Easy," having been laid to rest at la...

Years ago I met Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkeywrench Gang , in Tucson. Abbey was a legend by then - an ailing o...

    Two recent releases by this quality producer, Gary Farrell.  One (the 2011 Hallberg Vineyard) costs $55 but is worth it in today's...

    Below are the annotated endpapers for my book of reportage about the American West, looking like a map left somewhere by Lewis and Clar...

and my other books:   Sometimes a nickname is so apt, so perfect, that it fits like a glove: the way the “The Big Easy” has become synon...