Let's see if I can get to five.

Congratulations to this year's Tiptree winners and honor list!


Gary L. Roberts (Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, 2006) offers a really lovely metaphor:

Legends grow, and rarely by design. Like the wisteria in Doc's native Georgia, they spread, encircle, constrict, and hide the damage they do to the truth in a cascade of tales that, like foliage and flowers, cause people to forget everything else. But, like the wisteria, they have an unmistakable beauty that makes them nearly irresistible...