Lacunae Musing

How many men start out as an F-86 pilot during the Korean War and then become a writer over the next 50 years?   James Salter wasn’t pr...

Salter chisels precise sentences, ones Hemingway himself would envy.   And there are flashes of Fitzgerald as well, colorful and lyrica...

Having read James Salter’s Light Years I was eager to read his last work, one that was written and published only two years before hi...

Can it be?   Eight years writing this blog.   That’s the amount of time I spent in grammar school. Those eight years in PS 90 seem to b...