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What I Am Reading: "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Rebecca West

A famous travelogue of 1930s Yugoslavia.

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WritingTyler WolaninJanuary 29, 2020Interwar / Rise of Fascism, BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Manhattan Transfer" by John Dos Passos

The other great metropolis book of the 1920s.

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WritingTyler WolaninJanuary 11, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin

The finest in Weimar Republic literature.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 30, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "A Burglar's Guide to the City" by Geoff Manaugh

Architecture and urban design through burglary.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 20, 2019Books Comment
What I Am Reading: "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene

Graham Greene’s novel about a fugitive priest in Mexico.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 15, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "A Legacy of Spies" by John le Carré

Le Carré’s 2017 follow-up to his first big hit.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 8, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold" by John le Carré

A spy novel from when John le Carré was still in the business.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 5, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

An early aviation memoir considered to be some of the best adventure writing of all time. In my opinion, that is about half-true.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 2, 2019BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Man Without a Party: The Trials of Carl Von Ossietzky" by Richard Tres

An interesting little biographic novel about a crusading Weimar journalist and Nobel Prize winner.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 25, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR" by David Pietrusza
What I Am Reading: "1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR" by David Pietrusza

The 1932 election in the United States and the four 1932 elections in Weimar Germany.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 21, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "The Tango War" by Mary Jo McConahay
What I Am Reading: "The Tango War" by Mary Jo McConahay

A book about Allied and Axis operations in Latin America during WW2.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 16, 2019Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
What I Am Reading: "Haile Selassie's War" by Anthony Mockler

A military history of the Italian invasion and British-assisted liberation of Ethiopia.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 12, 2019Interwar / Rise of Fascism, BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation" by Brenda Wineapple

Andrew Johnson’s 1868 impeachment.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 7, 2019BooksComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Penpal" by Dathan Auerbach

A story of childhood stalking that originated as a creepypasta on Reddit.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 30, 2019Halloween, BooksComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "The Monster of Elendhaven" by Jennifer Giesbrecht

A very gothic horror-fantasy about a killer stalking a doomed city.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 28, 2019Books, HalloweenComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Horrorstör" by Grady Hendrix

A fun, illustrated journey into a haunted Ikea that connects horrors to the world of retail work.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 27, 2019Books, HalloweenComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Into The Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant

A very biological take on killer mermaids.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 23, 2019Books, HalloweenComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "The Hunger" by Alma Katsu

Historical horror fiction about The Donner Party, a wagon train to California that met a bad end.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 16, 2019Halloween, BooksComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Coyote Songs" by Gabino Iglesias

A “barrio noir” about vengeance and justice at the US-Mexican border.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 13, 2019Books, Halloween Comment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "The Fisherman" by John Langan

A horror novel concerning loss and otherworldly fishing in Upstate New York.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 10, 2019Halloween, BooksComment
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