Category Archives: Books

SHOOTING AT THE MOON / NONFICTION by Roger Wagner

July 18, 2010 – 12:46 pm

The airbases fo Issan are relatively quiet now. A few arrivals a day from Bangkok, but during the Viet-Nam War these runways were scorched by US fighters and bombers flying missions over Hanoi and more secretively Laos. This supposed secret war was run out of a small complex on the Udon Thani air strip basically [...]

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Le Nécrophile

April 22, 2010 – 8:21 pm

The biggest house in Quincy Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that Adam made love to the still [...]

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SIDESHOW by William Shawcross

April 18, 2010 – 12:39 pm

SIDESHOW by William Shawcross When I first visited Cambodia in 1995, I arrived at Phnom Penh’s airport on a brutally sunny day. My sunglasses offered little protection against the glare. I stumbled toward the terminal seeking relief from the heat, then stopped upon seeing a small bus deboarding its young passengers. Every child dressed in [...]

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Amazing Fantasy #15

September 18, 2009 – 6:38 pm

Spiderman was first featured in Amazing Fantasy #15. 1962. Spiderman was first featured in Amazing Fantasy #15. August 1962. 12 cents. My father tore up the comic book thinking it was worthless and thousands of other fathers thought the same. Their sense of worthlessness only increased the worth of the comic so that today Amazing [...]

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Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

June 6, 2009 – 8:12 pm

My grandmother had this book in her library. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE. This image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was another with rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh. My grandmother bequeathed this book to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe. Especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon [...]

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