Will Hopkins: 4 books

Buddy Holly is dead. So blares the news on the Galaxie 500's radio as the crew heads out Norfolk neighborhoods still decked up for Christmas, out to burn another cross and scare the hell out of some people. Rumor is the swells paying for these jobs are connected to Richmond politicians who've...

"God help the SOB who tries to come through that door tonight."Ruby Danes is sitting in a motel room off Azalea Garden Road with a bottle of Scotch and a .38 special, spinning Jack Kerouac's fountain pen on the nightstand and wondering how the last two weeks happened. Ruby's on a cross-continent...

1952 in Norfolk, Virginia. The papers are running headlines about Korea, the big conventions and an early Autumn storm churning toward the Atlantic coast. Buried back in the local section beside an ad for Be-Lo Markets are sad little stories about the deaths of two Norfolk nobodies - a retired welder...

        What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and details. For a practitioner, it would be to gain expertise in the combative skills. If you’re interested...