Category: Inspiration
Up From Adams Street –Excerpt–Looping at Butterfield
“C’mon out to Butterfield with me. You’ll like it,” Johnny says. After school, we amble down to 47th Street at the north end of town and stand on the corner with our thumbs out. Can’t predict who’ll stop for us, so we thumb everyone. Butterfield is four miles out of Westmont–a big green world , […]
Up From Adams Street Excerpt—Galloping Ghost
It was the very first Saturday after joining the squad. We loaded into the school bus taking us over to Wheaton, the first game on our three game schedule, to play on the historic Red Grange Field in practice uniforms. No cheerleaders, no band, no announcer, no spectators except for us on the team who […]
Up From Adams Street— Excerpt—Hopping a Freight
The escapade had a clear connection to Dad. He’d often regaled us with tales of eluding the Santa Fe railroad dicks prowling freights looking for freeloading hobos. What was James’s motivation for coming along? I didn’t think about it. I didn’t think about a lot of things. What were the dimensions of this fandango? I […]
A Bridge to Treachery –Excerpt–The Geography of a Novel
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A NOVEL The setting of my thriller A Bridge to Treachery is deeply rooted in the geography of the Hudson River Valley stretching from Newburg, New York, a town on the Hudson River north of West Point all the way south to Manhattan. I used actual locations because this fuels the […]
The Stranger in the Woods: The Last True Hermit
In The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel has written an endlessly interesting book about hermit Christopher Knight who lived alone in the woods west of Waterville, Maine for twenty-seven years. It would be extraordinary for anyone to live alone anywhere for that long, but Christopher lived his self imposed solitary confinement outdoors. He ate […]
What’s Behind a Surge in WordPress Subscribers?
Over the last month or so I have had a surge in new users on my WordPress web page. How Come? http://www.mainelarrycrane.com/?p=7163&preview=true
The Descendants – A Review
First I saw the movie, the gist of which I thought at the time to be the touching transformation of the rebellious and sullen 17 year old Alex into a surrogate mother to her blossoming 10 year old sister Scottie. George Clooney was just the right choice to portray Matt, father to the two girls. […]
Art Genome, Is There Such a Thing? Art.sy
AO Scott is away sailing somewhere or something, so David Carr asked Melena Ryzik to join him on this video. It’s all about art.sy, a web site that brings to the world of art what Pandora brought to the world of music—an algorithm built by art historians who are indexing and categorizing art for the […]
Fans of Game of Thrones – Where Do They Shoot?
A NY Times Video takes you to some of the locations that show up in the Game of Thrones series. Go here. Or check out the related content below. Thanks for stopping by. Please comment below or post this entry on your favorite social media website. Sign-up via the email or RSS option in the sidebar to receive […]