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Military · WashingtonJim Loveless Author Interview Avoiding Muddy Foxholes: A Story of an American Bombardier recounts the life and military service of your father, Richard “Dick” Loveless, a young man from Washington, D.C., who joins the Army Air Corps during World War II to avoid the muddy foxholes of infantry life. Why was this an important book for you to write? Like many boys growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, we were completely captivated by our fathers’ involv…Read Article
A Promise I Made
TelevisionAn essential divide between the vast wasteland of television and the fertile biomes of literature persisted from TV's formal maturation in the 1950s roughly through the beginning of the millennium, when television became "quality" and people stopped writing novels about how watching too much of it can amuse you to death. Suddenly, it turned out, watching TV wasn't bad for you after all — in fact it was good for you, pretty much as good as readin…See the Story
A newish kind of literary territory: the novel that sounds like TV
