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If I Saw the Movie, Should I Read the Book? Two by Hitchcock.

As I’ve matured, I’m still more likely to read a contemporary novel that’s going to be made into a film than to scour my local library for movie source material, especially when it’s a half-century-old bestseller that didn’t make the canon of my college English curriculum. But this summer I decided to change that. I decided to explore the novels that became movies, and what better place to start than two books Alfred Hitchcock used for his films.... Continue reading at https://kevinrush.us/2021/09/23/if-i-...

If I Saw the Movie, Should I Read the Book? Two Baseball Fantasies

And so, as this baseball season ends, Yankee fans are once again looking forward to the playoffs and Met fans have their sights set on Winter Meetings and Spring Training. Which is why, for us, baseball and fantasy are so intertwined. Winning, for us, is a rare, transformative, and even metaphysical experience. Our relationship to the game is a romance in the Shakespearean sense. It’s the kind of drama the two movies I’m discussing today delivered, making them hits at the box office. But how do the books they’re based on measure up?

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Liberty Island Interview

Liberty Island Magazine, the site for conservative fiction, recently interviewed my about my writing. You can read the entire interview here. https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/10/...