Paul Clayton attempts to take a vacation back in time and finds you can’t get there from here.

Tyler McMahon swears his attempt to teach fiction-writing in prison started out with good intentions.

There have been nukes in Don Mitchell’s past, and his partner Ruth’s father made the Nagasaki bomb possible. How are they to process this?

At the TNB New York Literary Experience, Don Mitchell examines Hawaiian Christmases past, against the background of the regrettable song Mele Kalikimaka, making full use of bogus translations and transliterations, broadcast radio, invented history, vulgar botany, and serious theological discussion.

Don Mitchell, at sixteen, narrowly escapes death in the 1960 Hilo (Hawai’i) tsunami, helps recover the dead, and, fifty years later, reflects on the experience.

Don’t give the Hawaiian mongoose a break by braking — it’s a deadly invasive species whose reputation in film and literature is much better than it deserves. Kipling and the other imperialists and planters were as greedy as the mongoose. Exterminate the brutes!