Raising Steaks The Life and Times of American Beef By Betty Fussell Harcourt Books Hardcover $26.00
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
It is refreshing to find a food writer willing to set a table with steaks as the main ingredient in this [...]
The Dogged and the Damned One soldier’s war at home A Skyline Publishing Book By Roland Cheek Paperback $21.954
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Roland Cheek says “The Dogged and the Damned,” was a germ of an idea based on a newspaper clipping about the “Wildman of the Umpqua” that stayed in [...]
My Father’s Paradise
A son’s search for his family’s past
By Ariel Sabar
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Now in paperback $13.95
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
It is seldom that a book reviewer gives more than a passing mention to a book publisher but with the release of Ariel Sabar’s “My Father’s Paradise” in paperback [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
If you have not heard that President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, you must be living under a rock. You are probably tired of hearing the pros and cons over the awarding of the prize, so I am not going to add to the debate.
I am [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
This may sound strange, but I recently had a guest lecturer for part of the three-hour class on writing I teach to some 21 students each week. What is strange about that is that my that my guest lecturer was a French college professor.
His subject was not French, nor did [...]
By BIL DUNCANThe View From Here
After I had written a column about a Library of Congress project to collect the stories of World War II veterans, Orvis Ford of Roseburg told me I didn’t have to go far to find one of those stories – just across the road from my home in the Riversdale section [...]
