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Oct

22

2014

The Final Stomr by Jeff Shaara

The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara may be the best contemporary writer of military history written as fiction. I recently finished The Final Storm. This is the fourth book in Shaara’s World War II series. The first three books take readers from North Africa to VE Day. The Final Storm moves to the Pacific Theater. The first chapter or two briefly …

Jan

17

2014

Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki on
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki

I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1996 to write my first novel. My husband is Canadian, and so we settled in Vancouver. I’d never lived on this coast before, but the book I was working on, My Year of Meats, was set in New York and Tokyo, and I felt I could write it …