Confessions of a Capitalist Tool might have been a better title for this tell-all of a career spent greasing the wheels for global subjugation by the US military industrial complex. Required reading.

Bulgakov never saw the publication of his masterpiece M&M. It's surreal, fantastic, funny, and compelling. A rare example of a novel I want to read more *about*.

Diabolical overlords strive to squash any examples of peaceful co-existence. This is very sad because we truly are on the brink and pushing harder every day. Happy first day of spring!

A proto-hipster kills (and overkills) in self-defense but his real crime is insufficiently mourning his mother's recent passing. Like beauty, guilt is in the eye of the beholder.

Published 18 years prior to Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger," one wonders if the resonances are coincidental or turn-of-the-century memes at work.

Just about the flattest prose style I've ever read but it's a pageturner to the end.