NaNoWriMo will soon be no more. For many people who love to write, whether they want to write a book or not, National Novel Writing Month had been a cultural touchstone and a fun sprint of 50,000 words every November. But the site announced this past week that it would be shutting down after 26 Continue reading

I’m not one for mysteries and true crime, maybe because I used to cover and write about it for a living and I got a bellyful years ago. But I have always liked Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and Ross McDonald in print and pretty much everything I’ve seen of film noir. “The Maltese Falcon” Continue reading

Maybe it’s something that, the older you get, the harder it seems to understand how someone who was so vital and so himself could ever pass away. I see Val Kilmer as Iceman and Jim Morrison, in the ’80s and early ’90s, and, thanks to this article, I see him as Val Kilmer. This profile Continue reading