Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Connelly, ‘Resurrection Walk’
If you were to ask me, “Who is your favorite author of crime/mystery novels,” I would not be able to give you a single name. I have a...
Tami Jo Nix
Opinion: The children of Chowchilla
This Sunday, a CNN documentary will air about the July 15, 1976, Chowchilla Kidnapping of 26 Dairyland Elementary School children. The...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: A primer on how not to write
I write. I suppose you’d call it my retirement hobby. But as far back as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed the brain exercise. I’d like to...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: McFadden, ‘The Perfect Son’
Erika Cass is lucky. She has a wonderful husband named Jason who is a good provider and makes terrible puns, a 14-year-old daughter named...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: E. Lockhart, ‘Genuine Fraud’
Emily Lockhart’s YA novel, “Genuine Fraud” (2017, 262 pages in paperback) begins with the events of the third week of June, 2017, in Cabo...
Tami Jo Nix
Opinion: November heartbreak
Some 60 years ago, the United States experienced a tragedy remembered by nearly every person alive at that time. On Nov. 22, 1963,...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: The first Thanksgiving
In 1620, 102 English subjects set off from Europe with a charter to settle in Virgina Colony, a possession of the King of England. Their...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Heather Chavez, ‘No Bad Deed’
“No Bad Deed” (2020, 309 pages in paperback format) is the debut novel by Heather Chavez, a graduate of UC Berkeley’s English Literature...
