What fascinated me most researching the Los Angeles of 1928 for my new novel, The Confidence Man, was the lost world of movies I encountered. That was the year, as any film buff knows, sound movies were introduced (most notably…
What fascinated me most researching the Los Angeles of 1928 for my new novel, The Confidence Man, was the lost world of movies I encountered. That was the year, as any film buff knows, sound movies were introduced (most notably…
In Dubai, almost everything looks as though it was built yesterday. Everything else will be built tomorrow. As it turns out, just about everything was built, if not yesterday, the day before. The entire waterfront area, chock-a-block with soaring, architecturally…