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Review of The Phantom Killer by James Presley

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Gene Stewart

The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders: The Story of a Town in Terror by James Presley Pegasus Crime, 2014, HC 1st Edition Notes, Bibliography, 8pp bw photo insert A Review by Gene Stewart James Presley, … Continue reading →

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Between Blinks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Art is more important than history. What you create matters more than lies agreed upon. The notion of history is bogus. It is simply lack of imagination all around to think the stories told of earlier times are any more … Continue reading →

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Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs, A Review

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? by Jim Marrs Wm. Morrow, 2013, hardcover 382pp, notes, index A Review by Gene Stewart Jim Marrs? Aliens? Must be some kind of joke. He wrote Crossfire, which, blended with … Continue reading →

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Review of Flicker by Theodore Roszak

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Flicker by Theodore Roszak Bantam mass market pb May 1993 1st edition $5.99 cover price 575pp The flicker in the title refers to movies, the fluttering light-and-dark going on behind the images as film moves through the camera at 24 … Continue reading →

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Midnight In Peking, A Review

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Midnight In China by Paul French Penguin, 2012, 1st American Edition ISBN: 978-0-14-312100-8 260pp, Hardcover, $26/US b&w and color photo section source list, no index A Review by Gene Stewart Midnight In Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman … Continue reading →

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Will History Fly?

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Kathleen Edwards wrote: Studying history is, for all I can see, nothing but a picking and choosing of the human race of what they want to sell from the past and and what they want to sell to the future. … Continue reading →

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Speak Carefully, It May Be Forever

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Carl Sagan wrote, “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind … Continue reading →

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Watch It, It’s TV

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Gene Stewart

On TV the most reality one can find is LAW AND ORDER and a few other police procedurals. They deal with corruption. They deal with crime. PERSON OF INTEREST is another, dealing with universal, pervasive surveillance. News-like shows are farcical … Continue reading →

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Examples of Writing Through History

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Chill-boy, fo Shizzle, y’all — I B out… Continue reading →

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