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When Life Drops a Coconut on Your Head…

A Las Vegas comic billed as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Lonny Day has built his career around impressions, especially a dead-on imitation of the President. Then the President is assassinated, Lonny’s signature act becomes unthinkable and almost everything else in his life starts coming apart. His wife, Doris,…
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September 16, 2026
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Mindfulness Meets Murder in Crime Thriller Debut

Karsten Dusse’s debut novel Murder Mindfully, translated from the German by Florian Duijsens, is a jet-black satirical comedy so zany this reviewer nearly fell out of bed guffawing while gulping it down in one evening. The author lampoons the wellness industry, unscrupulous criminal defense lawyers, and ultra-competitive parents of pre-schoolers,…
Linda Hitchcock
May 29, 2026
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Satiric Novel-Play Puts Thinking on Trial

What do you get when you take classical forms of satire, Greek tragedy, theatre of the absurd, philosophy, wordplay and poetry and mash them together to comment upon the current state of life in America? Well, it could only be one thing — the unique and complex work titled What…
Cynthia Conrad
August 16, 2024

Roy E. Schreiber

After college (UCLA and the University of London), Roy  Schreiber spent a good deal of time teaching British History at a branch campus of Indiana University. Like all the other professors, he wrote academic books. His were about people who lived in the 16th  and 17th  centuries. Only (roughly) fifty…
Terry McKyton
November 12, 2022

Luke Fellows

Luke Fellows is a forty-something recovering hedge fund manager. Born in London and educated at St. Paul’s School and Oxford University, he sacrificed his love of Classics for a Wall Street career, moving to New York City in 2000. After a sojourn at Harvard Business School, he made the leap…
Terry McKyton
November 12, 2022
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Classic Whodunit Meets Publishing Satire in Horowitz’s “A Line to Kill”

"Horowitz is a master of misdirection, and his brilliant self-portrayal, wittily self-deprecating, carries the reader through a jolly satire on the publishing world." — Booklist —∞— In case anyone was not already aware, Anthony Horowitz is a genius, an absolute marvel. This versatile, imaginative and prolific British author of mystery, suspense…
Linda Hitchcock
October 19, 2021