Category: Author Feature

Three Good Books by Louis L’Amour That Aren’t Westerns »

By David Stilwill on Mar 11, 2008 in Author Feature, Featured, First Person Narrative, Non-Fiction, Survival | 0 Comments

Source: Wikipedia
Raconteur: One who tell stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Author of over 100 novels, storyteller Louis L’Amour is certainly best known for his westerns and that certainly is the genre with which his name will always be remembered. He did venture at times though from his standard, leaving behind his most recognizable [...]

The Reading Life by Garrison Keillor »

By David Stilwill on Nov 30, 2007 in Author Feature, First Person Narrative, Libraries | 0 Comments

There is a nice essay in the Washington Post by Garrison Keillor revealing the genesis of his lifelong love of books.
“I plopped down and read them, one after the other. Nobody yelled at me, nobody told me to stop reading and sit with my feet up and not move….I chose to enter a privileged world [...]