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ERB at 150: Sesquicentennial Storyteller

ERB at 150: Sesquicentennial Storyteller

“If you write one story, it may be bad. If you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” —Edgar Rice Burroughs   When I was about twelve years old, my aunt gave me the first five books in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan series as a gift for either my...
Fifty-Year Run

Fifty-Year Run

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album, turns fifty this week. A half-century after the fact, most rock critics and historians consider it a monumental recording. At the time, though, it was a struggling musician’s Hail Mary. By the end of 1973, the...
Third-Floor Noir

Third-Floor Noir

Film noir is like any other creative aesthetic or artistic movement. The closer the examination, the more difficult if not impossible it becomes to define exactly what it is or exactly when or where it started. I’ve said the same about music in the past. Fill a room...
War Is Over

War Is Over

The surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, marked the beginning of the end of World War II, but VJ Day – shorthand for victory in Japan – was the end of it all. Eighty years ago this week, after U.S. planes dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on...
Hawklin Is Here!

Hawklin Is Here!

Globetrotting hero Steven Hawklin is back for a third and final round of action and intrigue! The Lost Adventures of Captain Hawklin, Volume 3, available now from Stormgate Press, includes five stories featuring the intrepid pulp-era aviator as he navigates the...