Tag Archives: history

Why Historical Fiction Matters (at this time in history)

March 9, 2022

I love period piece movies and I’d rather read fiction any day over nonfiction. But I have many friends who turn up their noses at made-up stories. They want something serious, they say. They don’t want fluff. They want to learn something, to be provoked to think, inspired to act. Fiction can do that, I say. Especially […]

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A Day I’ll Never Forget

December 20, 2019

I’ll never forget December 21. Two times in my life, it has proven to be a significant day. 1989 On December 21, thirty years ago, I sat glued to the television news. The revolution in Romania was under way. First Poland, then Hungary, then East Germany, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia had shaken free of their Communist […]

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