Today is October 15, 2025, and that means my new book of poems, SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN, has been released by Alien Buddha Press and is available for purchase in print paperback from Amazon and it's also now listed on Goodreads. This is exciting to me for many reasons, one of which is this is the …
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My first new book of poems in (20 YEARS!) a long time is scheduled for release on October 15, 2025 from Alien Buddha Press. Surviving Immortality Again comes in at 132 pages, contains 90 poems, will be available on Amazon, and is loosely intended as a dark "concept" collection. (Read the back cover for an …
You may have noticed the Bernard Fall book review I posted earlier this morning was not new as of June 2025 or any other recent moment. Indeed, I wrote it near the end of 2021. I posted it here today for a few reasons though, among them book reviews have historically been my most popular …
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Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …
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Yesterday I published a post titled My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was basically half of my annual end-of-year posts on my Goodreads reading efforts for each year. It focused on my 2024 Reading Challenge (I surpassed my goal of 200 books by reading 408 last year.) but I still have to post the …
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