James D. Best

I subscribe to the Nelson DeMille newsletter. He's been one of my favorite authors since I read Cathedral nearly three decades a...

Mitchell Corn Palace We recently moved from Arizona to Omaha and are still getting to know the neighborhood. Friends—and sometime relat...

NYU teaches a class in storytelling the Tisch School of the Arts. On the first day of class, Professor Liotti invited Trey Parker and Matt S...

Hollywood doesn’t like Westerns. They keep trying to make them into something else. If a traditional Western is a success, like Unfo...

In a previous post I lamented our poor travel luck of late. The good news is that once we left the USA, all of our travel difficultie...

Yesterday my wife and I left Paris for Omaha. That’s not a sentence most people would enjoy writing, but we’ve been gone a month a...

                    "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a P...

I was never a fan of signing cowboys. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and lesser lights were too goody two-shoes for me. I categorize heroes as w...