Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
This year I've been into reading Russians: Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamasov. I put off reading these books for years due to their length. However, once I got into them I found the writing compelling and smooth (apparently they translate well) and easy to read. I've only found one author writing in more...
Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, novelists, novels, Robertson Davies, Russia, Russian, The Brothers Karamasov, Tolstoy, War and Peace
I've read a number of interviews and blog posts in which writers comment upon, or list, books you should read if you want to write. They are interesting, but I wouldn't be so presumptuous to prescribe a reading list for others, particularly a list of books you should read if you want to be a writer. Instead of offering a list of "must read" books, I prefer to list more...
Charles Frazier, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Hubert Selby Jr, Kenkesy, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry McMurtry, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Lonesome Dove, Richard Brautigan, Robertson Davies, The Great Gatsby, Tom Robbins, William Kennedy
Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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