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Reviewed by James Victor Jordan: This is a review of the audio recording of T.C. Boyle’s story collection, A Death in Kitchawank. The narrator is the author, T.C. Boyle. I award…
Here, for your listening pleasure, is a hot-off-the- guitar song from Hot Tamale, written and performed by the incomparable Adrian Fogelin. In the words of her partner in music—song writing, performing,…
Reviewed by James Victor Jordan-Four Stars. Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Yes, the title of this review does invite a comparison of the Gabriel García Márquez novel of the same name…
Three Stars: Passive Characters, Inconsequential Epiphanies. Over the past fifteen to twenty years I’ve read perhaps a dozen stories by William Trevor published in The New Yorker. And like many, if…
Introduction: Hassan Riaz, M.D. Reviews In Other Rooms, Other Wonders This review is by my friend, Hassan Riaz, M.D. Hassan earned his baccalaureate and his medical degree from USC, where,…
This review is authored by James Victor Jordan and Kathy Ballsun American Pastoral is Philip Roth’s twentieth of twenty-seven novels. It was published in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize the…
I give it 5 Stars. Agatha Christie, move over. The Color of Fear is author Wendy Wanner’s debut novel. Ms. Wanner is a talented writer and an exceptional storyteller. The novel…
Terranauts to Psychonauts. I give it Five Stars. Outside Looking In, T.C. Boyle’s seventeenth novel, can be read as a stand-alone work of exceptional literary fiction. In another dimension—a useful term…
Yesterday, Sunday April 14, 2019, I was on the campus of the University of Southern California. It was the second day of the Los Angeles Times-USC Book Festival. Circa 2 p.m.,…
Five Stars. I recently read that this memoir will soon be the bestselling memoir in history. I think that’s terrific for Mrs. Obama as she’s one of my heroes, one of…