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2 giorni fa · Advice. In 1974 John D. MacDonald (author of the Travis McGee series, among others) wrote a piece for The Writer called "Creative Trust". I want to provide a few excerpts from it because I think he does a great job of describing how good detail is written: Here is a sample: The air conditioning unit in the motel room had a final fraction of its ...
1 giorno fa · Darker than Amber by John D. Macdonald. Travis McGee and his trusted friend Meyer are fishing in a secluded location late one night when a car stops on the bridge overhead. Next thing they know a woman wearing cement shoes is thrown into the water and sinks to the bottom. Acting quickly, McGee is just barely able to get her out alive.
1 giorno fa · Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister and one of the singular architects of Confederation, only lived there for two years in the 1840s, long before the events for which he’d be remembered ...
2 giorni fa · Toronto’s Macdonald statue is currently encased in a wooden and burlap tomb where it has been in hiding for nearly four years. As of 2024, there is only one Macdonald statue left standing and uncovered, located on Parliament Hill. Few figures, if any, in Canadian history have seen as drastic and unforgiving of a decline as Macdonald.
4 giorni fa · Sir John A. Macdonald furnished his home with mahogany processed by slaves in the Caribbean. He combed his hair with the shells of now-endangered turtles. He exhibited parrot-based design...
4 giorni fa · His new book, Sir John A. Macdonald and the Apocalyptic Year of 1885, will be published this fall. The restoration of Bellevue House, steeped in identity politics, has rightly been criticized for portraying our founding prime minister as among Canada’s worst-ever villains.
1 giorno fa · Conrad Black: The demonization of John A. Macdonald is tiresome — National Post apple.news
