James Victor Jordan is the Author of the new book, The Speed of Life An Illustrated Novel, praised by T.C.Boyle, Kip Thorne and Tom Holland.
This article was originally published, and can be viewed at NFReads.com NFR: Congratulations! Tell us about your book. JVJ: Thank you. The Speed of Life, an Illustrated Novel is literary fiction…
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…
Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” It is in this spirit that I asked Sarajane Pfrommer to contribute from time to time a series of travelogues…
I have finished reading and will very soon write and post my review of the very-recently-published T.C. Boyle novel, Outside Looking In. Yesterday I read a review of Outside Looking In…
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…
Five Stars. I had the pleasure this past weekend to sit in my backyard reading poetry, specifically Canvas of my Soul: The Hues of My Palette by Anahit Arustamyan. The title…
This is the Green New Deal, House Resolution 109 of the 116 United States Congress, first session. I am posting it because you may have seen politicians mocking it. Please read…
Anne Rudloe, beloved marine biologist, co-founder of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, writer and zen Buddhist, left a last book before her death in 2012 called "Zen in a Wild Country."…
Yes, Yes Cherries is a gorgeous volume of ten short stories by Mary Otis, an award-winning author and a professor of fiction in the University of California Riverside MFA program. According…