World War II and some personal heartache come to the Green River Valley of Wyoming — one of the tales in Fourteen Western Stories, available on Amazon for the Kindle and for free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices.
Now available, too, in a paperback edition you’ll be proud to display alongside other fine literature in your home:
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In December 2010, Jodi Arias beat out 50 other inmates to win an “American Idol”-style caroling contest for Inmates held by “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Joe Arpaio, at the Maricopa County jail.
Her prize was a stocking full of Christmas goodies and a turkey dinner for herself and her cellmates.
Jodi is currently on trial for murdering her boyfriend (or ex-boyfriend) by stabbing him 29 times, cutting his throat and then shooting him in the head as he was bleeding out.
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Asked about the Westerns that inspired his own Western fiction, Elmore Leonard said:
I’m inspired and motivated more by a novel that isn’t a Western — though it seems to have the basic elements — than by traditional Western novels and motion pictures; and that’s Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
— Robert Jordan, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Produver Orrin Keepnews on the making of Monk’s masterpiece album Brilliant Corners.
With thanks to Facebook friend Nelson Weaver.
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