by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
The original plan, as plans often do, went awry. Two of the stories I had hoped to include with the print edition of the novella, I Am William McGuire, did not work out as hoped. Most of the shorter material I write is intended as backgound or continuity for...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog, Essays
A dialog. “What’s this?” “What?” “This ‘Resolution 451’ business.” “Not a business. Just a revolution. Like a New Year’s revolution.” “You mean resolution.” “Well, yes, but it’s a revolting matter to have to deal with after all the ages..” “How so? What’s the matter?”...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Apr 18, 2020 | Blog
Years ago, in the midst of my bookshop battles and as some psychological relief, I began writing a comedy which was then entitled ‘Knox Books’ as both a homage to the great Boston bookseller of revolutionary days as well as a ‘play’ on the homophone ‘knocks.’ Such...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Mar 25, 2020 | About Books, Blog, Essays, Reference
I have finally done something I had promised to do here years ago. But it is posted at the Bookshop site under ‘annotations.’...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Essays
I first knowingly encountered the Administrative State in 1972 when I went to City Hall in Boston to get a peddler’s license so that I might sell books and magazines on the street. I was under the delusion (illusion is too kind) that the First Amendment to the...
