The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing....
In New York if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at...
The truth is I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then the...
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options....
Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes...
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known...
My personality when tasked with creating meals goes something like this: Is...
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning even...
There's already a marriage clock a career clock a biological clock....
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...