Elegy for Dad Heroes
Reading Burl Barer’s excellent book on The Saint was when I realized some characters are Dad Heroes. A dad joke is defined as the kind of joke a father would …
Category: Books
What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed — August 2025
As usual, I can’t promise this is short!
Question of the Week: What’s the Great American* Novel?
I’m back … we’ll see if I can keep it going!
Honor and glory in a time long past
Another couple of random book reviews from my own blog. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne Freeman shows how the political leaders of the Revolutionary …
Tarzan (and other people) at the Earth’s Core! The rest of the Pellucidar series
Long before DC or Marvel, Edgar Rice Burroughs built a shared universe. First we have the narrator of so many of his framing sequences, the Edgar Rice Burroughs who’s related …
For the world is hollow, and I have touched a dinosaur: Pellucidar
Long after scientists and geographers figured out the Earth was round, they still hadn’t figured out what was inside it. As Walter Kafton-Minkel discusses in his Subterranean Worlds, some theorists imagined …