A Treachery of Legions
April 8, 2026
Rome, 69 AD. Marcus Antonius Primus marched without orders, won at Cremona, and then let a city burn. He tells it himself at sixty-three, with decades to have chosen a version.
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Female FriendshipFilms Only Men Seem to Love
March 22, 2026
Twenty films that men watch seventeen times and women watch once — analyzed honestly for why each one resonates so specifically with male audiences, why women are more ambivalent, and what writers can learn from films that speak with a…
Film ListThe Greatest War Films Beyond WWII
March 22, 2026
Twenty war films beyond WWII — from Paths of Glory to All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), covering WWI, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and the Civil War. The films that engage honestly with what war costs, not in…
2010sEdge of Tomorrow (2014) Review
March 20, 2026
Edge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
FictionA Garden in Hiroshima
February 21, 2026
Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.
Class AllegoryThe Fisherman’s War
February 20, 2026
An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.
FamilyVeterans Day: Preserving the Stories That Deserve to Be Told
February 11, 2026
My first ghostwriting project was my grandfather's story, a WWII POW who survived. Why veterans' memoirs matter and how ghostwriting preserves them.
Film ListWorld War II Movies
January 16, 2026
Ranking the 19 greatest WWII films ever made, plus 20 honorable mentions. From Schindler's List to Das Boot, discover the movies that defined war cinema.
LegacyBehind the Wire: The True Story of Frank Hoeffer II, Prisoner of War
November 1, 2025
The true story of a Navy cook captured at Corregidor, 1942. Three years and four months as a Japanese POW. Written from memory by his grandson at age 65.
FictionThe Last Candle in Constantinople
September 21, 2025
In the last hours of Constantinople, a mother, her son, and a starving dog find themselves trapped in the Hagia Sophia as an empire dies around them.
Book ReviewsThe Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II
October 13, 2024
A period reference for one of America's most story-rich eras, gathering the concrete textures of 1920s-40s life, speech, dress, food, prices, technology, so the writing rings true instead of clichéd. Solid and practical, necessarily selective, and overlapping research you can…
Book ReviewsEveryday Life During the Civil War
October 13, 2024
The Civil War is among the most written-about and most easily botched periods in fiction, and this grounds it in concrete reality, economy, food, clothing, transport, balanced across North and South. Enriched with illustrations and maps. Broad instead of deep,…