Like a modern entrepreneur, fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, raised capital for an expedition to discover a western passage to Asia. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 placed control of the land routes to the lucrative Asian spice trade in Ottoman-Turk hands. Columbus first proposed the Atlantic Ocean route to Joao II of Portugal in 1485.…
The World is a City. Joe Giordano’s literary thriller Appointment With ISIL balances considerations of genre (characterization, pacing, mood) with a subtle but definite awareness of literary form and function. Much like his debut novel Birds of Passage, Giordano shows a penchant for sharp scenes, concise dialogue that has the bite of a Dick…
Q1: Can you give us some background on your career as a writer? How you got started, how long you’ve been at it, a bit about your publishing history? A1: One of the positions I held before I became a writer, was to run a business in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa…
