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History at UCDavis

February 12, 2019
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On April 11 I will be at the University of California at Davis, to deliver the annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Address in History. The title of the adress is Transformations of History in Fiction, a topic close to my heart and mind. My own books will get...

The Accu-thump of Googletarity

November 14, 2018
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THE ACCU-THUMP OF GOOGLETARITY How much did a condom cost in 1944?  What did the package look like, where could one be bought? Were there machines in the toilets (we called them toilets) of bars, as there were in the late 1950s?  I was writing a...

Ray Bradbury

October 2, 2018
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About Writing

Ray Bradbury died in 2012 at 91, as full of years as his writing life was of words typed and seen into print. It’s impossible to mourn such a death, or such a life, as seemingly fulfilled as any mortal could aspire to.  What remains...