James D. Best

Books Eats is a unique blog. It combines literary review with food talk. Two things that belong together. Whenever I travel in tim...

I've been gone for a month, plus I let things slide for a couple weeks before I left for Europe. I just finished looking at my recent sa...

I love to travel, but it's always good to get home again. We attended a wedding in Istanbul, and then spent a few weeks in Spain. We...

In a couple days my wife and I will leave for Turkey and Spain for about four weeks. I'm dragging Steve Dancy along with us. Hopefully...

I have been asked by several readers if the image on the cover of The Shopkeeper is authentic.  It is.  L. A. Huffman was a famous fron...

The difference between reality and imagination is an important distinction for me. Especially since I make my living writing fiction. ...

John Wayne was not only a great star, he was a king maker. Louis L'Amour had been selling well, but was hardly a household name prior ...

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simp...