Nov 8, 20233 min
Book Review: Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic is a skillful blend of romance, history, mystery, and horror. But as I read the book, I found...
Mar 14, 20184 min
Book Review: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
And so at last we come to The Dark Tower, the final book in Stephen King’s series of the same name (the long tale he’s said is his Lord...
Nov 6, 20172 min
Book Review: Song of Susannah, by Stephen King
Song of Susannah is my favorite of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books so far. There are several reasons. For one thing, King picks up right...
Sep 8, 20172 min
Book Review: I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
At first, the protagonist in Dan Wells’ I Am Not a Serial Killer feels like a young-adult version of Dexter (Jeff Lindsay’s surprisingly...
Jul 28, 20172 min
Book Review: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King
At this point, I have a good idea what I’m getting into when I pick up one of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. The story will wander. It...
Nov 6, 20162 min
Book Review: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass, the fourth installment in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, might have the strangest structure of any novel I’ve read....
Oct 24, 20162 min
TV: Why I'm Done with The Walking Dead
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan (Credit: Gene Page/AMC) The Walking Dead used to be thrilling. It wasn’t “good” TV, but the show generated a...
Aug 25, 20162 min
Book Review: The Waste Lands, by Stephen King
The Dark Tower series, as Stephen King explained in his introduction to its first book, The Gunslinger, is essentially his Lord of the...
Jun 20, 20162 min
Book Review: The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
Most authors wouldn’t start the second installment in a seven-book series by maiming the protagonist. But The Drawing of the Three was...
Jan 27, 20151 min
Book Trailer: Outcasts
Oldie but goodie: the trailer for Outcasts, my short story collection.
