Deception | Working Truths

Semur-en-Auxios, France

by RobertTownsend | Sep 1, 2019 | Deception | 0 comments

Observation tower and portion of medieval Semur-en-Auxios defensive wall. Patrice and I are moving this November (2019) to Semur-en-Auxios., near Dijon, in Burgundy, France. Why? Because we can. We are retired, squared away, and I speak French. And, as opposed to our...

The Impossible Presidency

by RobertTownsend | Nov 9, 2017 | Book Reviews, Deception |

Professor and historian Jeremi Suri’s The Impossible Presidency shines. Neither ornate nor prosaic, his words are well-chosen, his metaphors apt, the construction of the argument convincing (to me, at least). A previous work, Kissinger, rests on my desks...

First Impressions and bad judgement

by RobertTownsend | Oct 15, 2017 | Deception |

I work on my next novel “Resurrection” every day. My first objective is to tell a good story. My second it to get the spelling, punctuation and grammar right. Somewhere along the way, I would hope to illuminate how good-intentioned (at least in their own minds) men...

Golden Rain, Fake New, and Dezinformatsiya

by RobertTownsend | Jan 23, 2017 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union | 2 comments

‘Fake news’ in the US 2016 Presidential election. I have Facebook friends and relatives who repost without respite their unfiltered political or doomer or climate or religious mania. Used to be one encountered Uncle Frank once a year on Thanksgiving or at the 4th of...

Perfume River – The storyteller and truth

by RobertTownsend | Oct 25, 2016 | Book Reviews, Deception |

The Storyteller and Truth Robert Olen Butler and Perfume River The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is in my estimation the finest living American author and his just released book, Perfume River, his finest novel. It is...

On Bullshit: Liars and Storytellers

by RobertTownsend | Aug 22, 2016 | Book Reviews, Deception |

On Bullshit and On Truth I had long visualized the lexicon landscape between The Truth and The Lie as a continuum along which lay a rich and varied vocabulary––deception, denial, camouflage, working truth, baloney, etc––with full equivalents in every language on the...