I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the latest book I’ve read, as it is the best tonic to help one get by the election and move on to thinking about real life instead of suffering through the latest antics by the president-elect. Just published, Heat Deflectors: And 99 Other stories by Darryl Ponicsan offers up literary tapas, short, short stories that light up and probe human relationships.
Ponicsan,* an award winning screenwriter and novelist, has assiduously written about ordinary people and those on the margins of society. His first two novels, The Last Detail and Cinderella Liberty, mined his experience in the navy. Both were made into films, the first, starring Jack Nicholson and the second, James Caan. He also writes mysteries under the pen name Anne Argula. For more on his life and writings see DarrylPonicsan.com
* Full disclosure, I was Ponicsan’s shipmate in the navy and have corresponded with him for over fifty years.