Written By: Michael D. McClellan | To underestimate Michael Fairman is to do so at your own risk. Drop him on a red carpet and he outshines the cabal of nervous journalists fidgeting around him; throw a high-profile tribute package his way and he turns it into high art; give him a show to produce […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the largest and most oppressive on earth. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile. There are few places as huge and as wild. It is roughly the size of the United States, 3.6 million square […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Write what you know. That shopworn idiom has served many an author well, launching the prolific careers of modern-day novelists such as John Grisham, who pivoted from law and legislature to pen The Firm, and Agatha Christie, who grew up hooked on Sherlock Holmes, and whose 78 crime novels […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Ciaran Byrne has travelled a great distance from the Northern Ireland of his childhood to New York City, where he lives today, but that doesn’t mean the builder-turned-actor has forgotten his homeland, or dismissed the tanks and guns and bloodshed as a dreamlike series of unfortunate events, or chalked […]