Jaclyn Tilks

By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. Twenty-one years ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Spain to become a professional…

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Henry Miller and Me

June 26, 2020

By James Michael Dorsey It was 1973 when I unexpectedly landed a job as a letter carrier in the idyllic seaside community of Pacific Palisades, California. After several previous dead-end…

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Crime Writers Tour: In Search of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie

June 19, 2020

By Stephen Margrett With an appreciative nod to Wilkie Collins and others who blazed the trail, it really started with Sherlock Holmes. In his first novel, A Study in Scarlet…

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Petra's daughter Rosa and and family in old Peace Corps barrio

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Macondo Magic and Other Blessings

June 7, 2020

By Suzanne Adam The death of Gabriel García Márquez prompted me to reread his Nobel-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude,“Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish—the epic novel, which traces the…

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