Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture, with a particularly obsessive interest in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, plus a little fiction of my own.
Editor-in-Chief of The Fortnightly Review. Author of Hannah and the Master (MadHat Press) and the novel How Long Is Now (Spuyten Duyvil Press). Professor of English at Lake Forest College.
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