“‘I need help,’ she said.” After having run through the forest and finding the highway, she had managed to flag down a car. The driver...

As readers of the Madera Tribune know, I write a book-review column for the Wednesday edition of this newspaper. Often, I find that...

Chris Whitaker is a like a lyric writer who composes songs of unrequited love and burning hate in equal measure. I’ve read only two of...

“Donna tried to understand the scene. The bodies. The girl. The gun. ‘Put your hands in the air!’ Donna told the girl, pointing her...

In college, I took several “lit” classes. Modern Literature. European Literature. The Literary Classics. The Short Story. Even, Sociology...

During the 1950s, I read several novels by Nevil Shute, and I want to pay homage to this wonderful author. His full name was Nevil Shute...

I must have been 15 because we hadn’t yet moved to California, and I had “outgrown” my interest in books about dinosaurs. The librarian...

During the closing decades of the twentieth century, I read many novels by John Irving: The World According to Garp, The Hotel New...