Retro
Alcohol & One Writer’s Boyhood
By M. J. Moore In his short story “Just Like the Girl” (with its sardonic epigram being a line from...
By M. J. Moore In his short story “Just Like the Girl” (with its sardonic epigram being a line from...
By M. J. Moore Fifty years after Jack Kerouac‘s death on October 21, 1969, a question arises. Should Kerouac be...
(Note: This is an excerpt adapted from M.J. Moore’s forthcoming biography on novelist James Jones, author of such works as...
FOR JULIA SCHOPICK “I caught the bus at midnight, aware that I was leaving for good,” a combat veteran named...
In downstate Illinois throughout the 1950s, legendary novelist James Jones and his patron, mentor, and lover Lowney Handy formed a...
“Pearl Harbor, when they passed it, was a shambles. Wheeler Field had been bad, but Pearl Harbor numbed the brain.”...
Novelist James Jones arrived with a blockbuster in 1951: From Here to Eternity smashed sales records from the get-go. Jones’...