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by Jack Durish
Ray and Me. The Bradbury Chronicles
RAY BRADBURY taught me an important lesson many years ago. If you have something inside of you…
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by Jack Durish
Mickey Spillane: From the Gut
I’M STARTING FROM the wrong end of the book. At least that’s what Mickey Spillane told me. He said…
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by Jack Durish
The Arrogance of Writing
Towards the end of my training at Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, a…
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by Jack Durish
The Mistake of Not Learning History
Twice during the late Nineteenth and mid-Twentieth Centuries, the Cuban people had liberty within…
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by Jack Durish
A Word or Two about OurStory
Isn’t “Flutterby” more descriptive than “Butterfly?” How about “OurStory” rather than…
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Circle of Friends
Birds of a feather really do flock together. I once wrote a guide to local advertising wherein I…
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Remembering Martin’s Flying Boats
THE GLEN L. MARTIN Aircraft Factory disappeared during WWII – from the air – thanks to the…
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by Jack Durish
Being Honest about Villains
Many years ago, more than I care to calculate, when my third child was in elementary school, her…
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by Jack Durish
Dictator in a Confessional
Dateline Rome – Sources close to the Vatican are reporting that Fidel Castro, who promised Cuban…
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Mastering Machismo, And Is It a Good Idea?
In writing Rebels on the Mountain, I had to come to grips with machismo. To be honest, I have…
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Where Has All The Humor Gone?
Today’s world is caught up in a new, global revolution rooted in the Middle East. Some see it as a…
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A Sad So Long to a Memory Past
WITH THE ADVENT of steamship service on the Chesapeake Bay in 1825, citizens of Baltimore began…
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A Mad Dog on the Run
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun… Noel Coward purportedly wrote that song…
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by Jack Durish
The Tip
Nick sat at the bar across the road from Pimlico Race Track, surrounded by Milt and his coworkers…
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Jack Durish: Beer Run to Victory
CIVILIZATION COULD NOT have evolved without beer. It’s true. Without beer, man could not have…
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by Jack Durish
Revolution in Cuba
An Interview with Jack Durish, author of Rebels on the Mountain, Part 3. Question: …
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by Jack Durish
The Enigma of Fidel Castro
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK DURISH, AUTHOR OF REBELS ON THE MOUNTAIN: PART TWO. VG: Your first…
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by Jack Durish
An Interview for Rebels on the Mountain
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK DURISH, AUTHOR OF REBELS ON THE MOUNTAIN: PART ONE It’s a novel that has…
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Separating Fact From Fiction
OMG, I’m no different from a politician or a pundit. I mix fact with fiction. I’m a writer of…
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by Jack Durish
Controversy Over the Cuban Embargo
The United Nations recently condemned the U.S. Embargo of Cuba overwhelmingly, 186 to 2 – the…
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