Adams, Robert. Why People Photograph. New York: Aperture, 1994.
Last summer, on the way to Colorado, I drove U.S. 50 across Nevada. Friends had murmured sounds of disdain and warned me. “What a lonely road.” But it wasn’t until I was well past Fernley that I came upon the official-looking highway sign, “The Loneliest […]
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Dorothy Sayers invented the urbane, elegant detective Lord Peter Wimsey, and some scholars of the British detective novel claim she was in love with her creation. I find this easy to believe since many female readers become smitten with Wimsey’s charm. […]
O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
Many of us of a certain age will remember, from the pen of C. S. Forester, the saga of Horatio Hornblower as he rose from British midshipman to admiral while fighting Napoleon’s navy in the young years of the nineteenth century. These tales […]