Sonny's Castle Dangerous

405 pp.  Signet Books, January 2001 When I lived in Florida, I used to daydream about moving to a small town up north. I envisioned a qui...

My daughter brought her boyfriend home to visit for a couple of days. Mike is quiet and very respectful. He calls me Mr. K------. He just gr...

This week’s Cream concert and the song Deserted Cities of the Heart has reopened old wounds. Well, here’s how it was. As freshmen in college...

“Me and my brother were talking to each other About what makes a man a man…” -- From “Tattoo” by The Who This is the story of something I n...

In this passage from Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood invites the tall stranger to join his "band of me...

The King Must Die By Mary Renault 338 pp. Vintage Books I’ve just finished this novel, and it’s superb. Beautifully written with a gripping ...

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson Whiling away my time in the library of The American School in London, I found this book purely by ...

The Lost Legends of New Jersey By Frederick Reiken 312 pp. Harvest 2001 Almost too good to be true, this novel wins my personal award for bo...

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard 463 pp. Ballantine Books 2003 The first 13 of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbari...

From "The Tale of Sir Gareth" in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur Sir Gareth and an unpleasant nameless "lady" are...