Taylor Helzer was raised a devout Mormon, a wunderkind of the faith, fast-tracked for a life on the pulpit. So how does he go from religious prodigy to stockbroker and New Age dabbler and then to conman and mass murderer? Claire Booth’s treatment of Helzer’s …
Read MoreMicro-Review #164: No Ordinary Assignment
In an era full of war-reporter memoirs, this is one of the better ones. It comes across as honest and objective, which is an accomplishment given the emotional nature of the author’s job. Born and raised during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland, Ferguson learns about …
Read MoreMicro-Review #163: Swimming to Cambodia
This slim volume is a transcription of Gray’s stage monologues about his time on the set of THE KILLING FIELDS in Thailand in the early 1980s. As an almost aggressively introspective New York stage actor scrambling for film jobs, Gray is out of place in …
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