There’s been a kind of interesting trend in the short story world in these past few years to center narratives around veterans and soldiers who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These Heroic, Happy Dead counts itself in that number. It’s comparable to Redeployment, the Phil Klay novel that I loved, but writer Luke Mogelson takes a
I cannot believe that the year is half over. Time has flown by so damn quickly. Taking stock of the landscape of movies and it has been a bit of an uneven year. Granted I haven’t seen some of the big players, but were it not for LA Film Festival this year would seem super
Two books that couldn’t be further from each other in terms of subject matter and genre feature in this new update to Le Noir Auteur Reads. First up is a jaunt M/M romance and second we have a non-fiction account of the nuclear age. The Pirate of Fathoms Deep by Megan Derr The Pirate of
This post was supposed to have gone up two weeks ago but when the Great Domain Name Crash of 2016 came I lost all the progress and couldn’t update the site with anything new. I enjoyed that this LA Film Fest forced me to do a decent amount of research into the films I was
Another day another list where people have wracked their brains to decide what’s best. This time it’s the BBC asking people to list their 10 Best Films of the Century. It will be an interesting list to be sure when the whole thing drops in August. The best way to respond to a list is with
Chile this week was a MESS. Blog went to hell, the finals went 7 Games, I was trine schedule and organize so many things. The issues on my blog seem to be fixed for now, so how about an awesome look at cool posts from other blogs. Even as a long time watcher of ESPN