Curations from the Human Jungle
[Like many of my contemporaries, a role model for me was Ernest Hemingway, a hard-drinking, womanizing, man's man who also had a way with words. His prose was crisp and simple, perfect for the cluttered mind of the adolescent male. Unfortunately, too many of us really never got beyond the drinking part of the model.... Continue Reading →
[Jim deFilippi is our Brown Fedora Silverback. Busting Stones is his biography of Martha Gellhorn, Silverbelle Extraordinaire. SB SM] Martha Gellhorn was the greatest war correspondent in American history, but she was/is unknown, unappreciated, undervalued because of her sex. BUSTING STONES tracks her life against the backdrop of the 20th Century Women's Movement. The book... Continue Reading →