A couple of weeks ago, I shared an essay on thriller novelist Dennis Wheatley (whose influenced Ian Fleming and others) and his interesting part in promoting the books of Charles Williams. A new post, giving my concluding thoughts and some suggestions about why Williams and Wheatley's careers took such different turns, has now been published. …
Continue reading Thoughts on Charles Williams & Dennis Wheatley Part 2
One of the joys of writing book reviews is that sometimes you discover a book you really didn't expect to enjoy. I picked up a copy of West Side Story: A Novelization just after Christmas in a mall bookstore for two reasons: first, it's a reprint of a novelization written for the original film, and …
Since today is the end of the Lent/Easter season, I decided to look back at some of the books I've been reading since Ash Wednesday. I read fairly quickly and will read almost anything once, so it was a mixed bag of items. However, there were a few books that dealt with religious themes or …
Today, April 9, marks 77 years to the day that theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was executed for his involvement in the most famous of several plots to assassinate Hitler. As a friend observed yesterday in Inkling Folk Fellowship's Memorium for Bonhoeffer, he died exactly three weeks before Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. Within two …
Continue reading Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer 77 Years Later
While my fiction writing so far has mostly been in the sci-fi/fantasy genre with ventures into ghost stories, I keep telling myself I should write a thriller. I enjoy the well-tuned psychological games, the tension and the chase between hunter and hunted. As I mentioned in my MovieThoughts series on Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, I …
G. Connor Salter 