John Keeler Mitchell: 4 books

Roll back to the 1950s, courtesy of Somewhere Children Shout, a new retrospective by author John Keeler Mitchell, who lived it all. As he recalls, it was a time of black-and-white TV, movies where the word “damn” was used with great discretion, and computers were room-filling contraptions with...

Can you really fry eggs on your sidewalk? Are baseball players required to spit incessantly? Have you ever seen a guy offer to throw himself out of a bar? Zephyr Again!, brings you those perplexing issues and more, a collection of posts from the blog Zephyr, that takes an affectionate look at the...

EVER WONDER what it would be like to jump back to your high school days, say for a month? Correct a few miscues? See the old gang again? Make another – and this time maybe successful -- play for that cute girl across the street who you were just too shy to approach back in the day? In short, would...

With a draft notice hot in his pocket, Frank Bixler jumps the border to Canada in 1968, swapping the threat of the steaming jungles of Vietnam for cool Montreal. Frank’s Boston College paramour Brit Goldner joins him for the start of a new life that includes the safety of a new flag. Jumping the...