“The True Don Quixote”

The below review was written by Mike Scott of the New Orleans Picayune in conjunction with the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival. I find New Orleans and Don Quixote fascinating. The former because I have visited there for Mardi Gras 3 times and I am always always deeply impressed with the joy that inhabits that …

I like to read Essays

I have had a little delay. A block really.  I don't know how...or why.... I told a couple of people about this blog and….I got stopped, my mind slammed shut, I’ve had this thing working for more than a month and I couldn’t even open it, to look at it much less to write it. …

In Defense of Difficult Non Fiction

I am here to defend weird and wonderful non fiction books. It started with biographies and then morphed into the bloody egghead book. I have started reading more science and math based books. These books are hard to read, but oddly satisfying. Yes, they are academic and thick and they talk about brains, nature, studies …