Go East Young Man!
A quote often attributed to newspaperman Horace Greeley circa 1840, “Go West Young Man” evokes images of pioneers, wagon trains, the Oregon Trail, and the…
Watch Your Step
One of my earliest experiences with the internet was a demonstration made by a colleague named Archie, who giggled like a child as he watched…
The Major
I lost a dear friend recently. He didn’t do funerals, so there is this. He was a United States Air Force pilot who once harbored…
Dem Bums
Although published in 1997, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Wait Till Next Year resonates during this long, hot, isolative summer. It is at heart a book…
Ida T.
Trailblazing journalist Ida Tarbell was one of a small group of citizen reporters at McClure’s monthly magazine who helped forge the role of the free…
Recent Books by Local Authors
Fiction Lee Goldberg: Lost Hills.This 2020 New York Times bestselling police procedural revolves around a brutal murder in the author’s Calabasas neighborhood. Gary Johnson: Zipper….
Don’t Call Me Henry
A quick glance at the New York Times Best Sellers lists of Summer 2020 suggests that something is stirring in America—So You Want to Talk…
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