Last season, the Pirates pulled off an unusual feat: they rewarded optimism in the Forster family win predictions. Having failed to post the...

In a good reading year, my favorite book of 2023 stands head and shoulders above the rest.  Only George Saunders could make Russian literatu...

After a few days of books to romp through that I either liked or disliked, I present serious literary fiction .  Organically, the three book...

Happy new year!  For many years, I held to strict categories in recommending books from my year's reading.  But now that tons of people ...

This past year must count among the best reading years of my life.  I am grateful to have enjoyed a whole lot of books and disliked very few...

As we round the final curve of this baseball season, the Pirates have assembled one of their most interesting irrelevant years.  They follow...

  With the season (slightly more than) half over, it's a good time to check in about which Forster is prognosticating the Pirates win to...