While still in their teens, the author and his brother restored a plane and flew across the United States by themselves in the 1960s. This book chronicles their journey, the people and Americana they encountered along the way, and their relationship with their father, a former barnstorming pilo...
Think 1960s Batman villain/dark James Bond. He has a suave underground lair, fast cars and even faster dames, revealing showers, infinite tricks up his (immaculately tailored) sleeves, and a lust for adventure and danger surpassing even Rick O’Connell. He also has A Dame of His Own; Eva...
Here is the Avenue, a grandly inappropriate name for what is basically a dirt track. Note the quality of silence. There are no motor-cars on Sark, which explains the roads that are not really roads and we hope your shoes are sensible. To your left is the Bel Air Hotel. On another d...
Jack Cusack, who managed the Canton Bulldogs in the Teens – before the NFL was formed – talks inRag Daysabout one of his players dying of injuries suffered in a game. “In making a tackle,” he says, “[Harry] Turner’s back was fractured and his spinal cord completely severed.” H...
is definitely for older readers. It’s for sort of teens-plus. It’s about that time in your life when you meet someone who activates you politically. Sophie goes to France to just be abroad, and learn things, and have sex. And Sophie starts to meet radical European queer teens....