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Elmore Leonard’s 1990 ‘too-cool-for-school’ novel, Get Shorty, was a popular bestseller that spawned a film adaptation in 1995. I read […]

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One of the first Elmore Leonard books that I read was Rum Punch. Even though that was a long time

Way back in 1992, I first read Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel, Rum Punch. Being a fan of Elmore Leonard, I

Kazuo Ishiguro has become one of my favorite authors. His books are literary treasures that are compelling and hard-to-put-down. I

Watership Down, written by Richard Adams, was first published in 1972 as a children’s story. Since then, the epic story

The first novel I read by Stephen King was ‘Salem’s Lot. I really loved that book—it spoke to me. Later,

After reading a few travelogues by Paul Theroux, he has become one of my favorite authors. But, are his fictional

One of my favorite movies is Heat, the 1995 classic crime-thriller starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. I loved

This is our The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time book banter (title should be all lower case—see

It’s been 30 years since Good Omens was first published. I don’t know why it took me so long to

William Kent Krueger wrote a 2014 best-selling book, Ordinary Grace. As we banter about this book, we promise not to

As I write about Percival Everett’s novel called James, I promise not to reveal too much of the plot. Instead,