As January gives way to February, check out the January/February issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands...
It features a story showcasing "Hole-in-the-Wall Wonders"; small, lesser-known Valley eateries. I was proud to be one of the authors; see if you can guess which five entries are the work of Your Humble Narrator.
Also, here's my booklist for 2025:
Typee by Herman Melville
The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March
Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball by Jay Martin
Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets by Christopher Farnsworth
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Embarrassingly short this year, because of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. I had started that book more than 30 years ago, when I lived in Washington D.C., but I lost it before I was a quarter of the way through and never got another copy. Last May, on impulse, I bought a copy (a different translation) on impulse at a bookstore in California. It took me more than half a year to drag my dull-witted mind through Dostoyevsky's terrible vision. Exasperating, exhausting, harrowing, beautiful.
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