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...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog
In related matters, my new novel, The knight’s tale, a story of the future, is now available in paperback from the mighty Amazon as well as in at least one fine bookshop. This novel was written a few years ago but only available until now in parts on my website. It...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog
How is it that such a great composer as Asger Hamerik can be so forgotten? Can the mediocrity of our age actually be so overwhelming as to ignore even that rare genius who survived the smothering of the ‘modern’ to produce seven wonderful symphonies and an...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Feb 17, 2019 | Blog, Essays
The spawn of a recent article by Richard Fernandez (https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/surprise-collapse/) is a rather gloomy extended thought on my part. It is my tendency to be gloomy, true, but that aside, I have the habit of seeing analogy in most of what I hear...
