2016 Reading: Phoning Home by Jacob M. Appel

Phoning Home: Essays by Jacob M. Appel The University of South Carolina Press, 2014 This is an excellent, entertaining, and provocative  short collection of essays…

2015 Reading: Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets by Jacob M. Appel

Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets by Jacob M. Appel I had previously reviewed Appel’s novel, The Biology of Luck, in Prime Number Magazine, so…

2014 Reading: The Biology of Luck by Jacob Appel

The Biology of Luck by Jacob Appel I enjoyed this New York City-based re-imagining of the Odyssey (or Joyce’s Ulysses). I published a review of the…