Howard Cincotta > Recent Status Updates

I’m now semi-expert on the staging and finances of Grand Opera in the 19th century.

The characters are still in Italy, where Conroy's love for Italian cuisine triggers some of his most passionate prose.

The author is a friend that I knew years ago. Enjoying her book greatly.

Having read Circe, couldn't pass up an opportunity to read this earlier novel ... library Kindle edition.

I trust I can count on the course of love and friendship to sail smoothly ... now that we've reached volume four.

Time to smuggle to golem out of pre-war Prague. Chabon has certainly down his research on techniques for escaping chains, ropes, and a variety of locks as well.

Hermes is a fat detective with very white tennis shoes and a taste for ouzo. But justice will not be denied.

The mind revealed in the notebooks is strange and wondrous. I hadn’t realized how often he staged plays, spectacles and other events with mechanical birds and moving stages and fantasy costumes.

Just finished. Model of the confessional memoir that is such an influential model today.

"Follow the clues or they will follow you."

Recommended 2016 short novel

Nebula nominee

Nebula nominee

Complicated characters and time sequences. Having a slow start.

Boyhood reminiscences aboard a freighter traveling from Sri Lanka to English.

This will be another long investment of time, like the 700-page Alexander Hamilton bop, and with what a cast of characters: Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd-George, et. al.