Speed Reader This novel might not have many spills, chills or thrills, but the story about a life-long friendship between two British women still packs [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 12, 2004 Read More
Newsflash: Bush Sucks I'm on an airplane and I pull out Thieves in High Places. The guy squashed next to me shrinks away a bit when [...] Laura Sanchez \ Feb 12, 2004 Read More
The Writing Life Generally speaking, if you decide to become a writer you've opted for professional failure. It's as simple as that. Let's be honest: Like [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 12, 2004 Read More
Alt.press What sort of fiction might one expect from a scientist? Meticulous? Wooden, perhaps? In the case of astronomers, imagination plays as important a [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Feb 05, 2004 Read More
Packing A Punch It's hard to write a good short story. Honestly, most of the short stories I read last year, whether in magazines or collections, [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 05, 2004 Read More
Speed Reader The latest installment of Parrish's Louis Kincaid mystery series finds our hero trying to solve a mystery surrounding a woman's bullet-riddled corpse discovered [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 05, 2004 Read More
Speed Reader A retired window-washer with a love of opera goes to Vegas on vacation and wakes up in a ditch behind a construction site. [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 29, 2004 Read More
Alt.press James R. Cain's Australian publication, Dark Animus, took me back to a time here in the states when horror was horror and King [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Jan 29, 2004 Read More
Who Are You Calling A Conservative? Why would anyone want to write a book about Bill O'Reilly? I mean, isn't he just another Rush Limbaugh clone, one of the [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 22, 2004 Read More
Speed Reader In Raban's first novel since the mid '80s, readers come into gruesome contact with the disintegrating marriage of a pretentious writing professor and [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 22, 2004 Read More