Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
In some sense, writing is guesswork. You put words on a page and hope people like them — generally, some do, and some don’t. Writing is also an incredibly objective thing. Sentences are well-structured and paragraphs flow; if a writer…
Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession By Laurence Leamer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 336 pages, $29) When I first heard about Laurence Leamer’s Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession, I was…
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill By John A. Burtka IV (Gateway Editions, 344 pages, $20) The publication of Johnny Burtka’s Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill strikes as a most peculiar election-year book. The genre,…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this…
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television By Foster Hirsch (Knopf, 672 pages, $40) If you listen to the Left, the 1950s…
Chronic readers of this column are surely aware that one of my favorite authors, who also happens to be a personal friend, is Kurt Schlichter. Kurt has written eight novels in his Kelly Turnbull series, and I’m not sure I…