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The Day the Astrodome Spoke To Me                                                                                                                    by R. Scott Murphy My family attended the most recent edition of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, a massive event held at the Reliant Park complex.  Reliant Stadium is a shiny, high-tech wonder with a spectacular retractable roof.  Inside, we watched well-produced rodeo events and bounced to [...]

Chapter 1 Revelry in the House of Ruth Cultural Literacy Meets Schoolhouse Rock Highly respected academician E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is well known for his works on cultural literacy that spotlight people, places, and things “every American needs to know.” Criticized by some for a perceived lack of focus on differences in learning styles, it [...]

Q. Tell us a little bit about your book. A.“Ducks on the Pond” is a love letter to the sport of baseball, but it’s about far more than baseball.  It’s about youth, wonder and a sense of belonging.  It’s about nostalgia—simpler times when Pluto was a planet and reality peo­ple hadn’t taken over our lives.  [...]

Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. I heard Cameron Crowe, one of my favorite film writer/directors, speak after winning the Oscar for writing “Almost Famous.”  He said the project allowed him to blow a kiss to his childhood.  That fascinated me.  I knew I wanted to someday have a similar experience.  [...]

Q. What excites you most about your book’s topic? Why did you choose it? A. I often wondered why the famous archaeologist, Nelson Glueck, was assigned to do an archaeological survey of  Trans-Jordan (present day Jordan) for the OSS, since the main action of  WW II  was nowhere near there. It wasn’t until I began [...]

Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. THE SCORPION’S BITE is the third book in the Lily Sampson series. In the last book in the series, THE TORCH OF TANGIER, Lily was recruited by the OSS. During WW II, a number of unlikely people were in the OSS, from anthropologists and archaeologists, [...]

Pascal Thiam, author of From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta Q. Tell us a little bit about your book. A. It is the story of America’s music and the socio-cultural constructs that gave it its foundation and its amazing identity markers. Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. It was an important [...]

Q. Tell us a little bit about your book. A. Love Script: Deluxe Edition is an extended edition of the 2007 release of Love Script. In a nutshell, the story shows what happens when a lie gets out of control. Determined win a prominent (but difficult) account for his company, Nick Sinclair (a playboy businessman) [...]

Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. Funny story. I actually had a job very similar to Laney’s. I hated it there. (Yes, Mary-Knight is a real person. Yes, she is a total bitch.) I would sit in my office and wish I was anywhere else in the world but at work. [...]

Chapter 17. Your Own Vision, Your Own Dream — I Saw America! On March 9, 1971, on a sunny spring day, I boarded the plane, headed to America. All my family and several relatives and friends accompanied me to the Gimpo Airport to see me off. Mother looked exhausted from crying since the night before [...]