A brilliant storyteller--Literary Review

John Carter’s the Man…of Mars. Sunday Times, 27 Feb, 2012

In Features on February 26, 2012 at 6:10 pm

This one could run and run

Stephen Amidon
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 26 February 2012

John Carter of Mars - Conceptual Art of a Thark on a Thoat. (Disney)

Before Luke Skywalker, James T Kirk and Avatar’s Jake Sully, there was John Carter. The hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s epic novels about an American civil-war veteran who finds himself exiled on Mars may only now be making his screen debut in Disney’s John Carter, but he has held a…

Raylan by Elmore Leonard. Sunday Times, 26 Feb, 2012

In Criticism on February 26, 2012 at 2:55 pm

Raylan by Elmore Leonard

Stephen Amidon
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 26 February 2012

Timothy Olyphant (Raylan Givens VIII), Joelle Carter (Ava Crowder). (Sony)

Like a celebrated musician, Elmore Leonard’s greatness stems from his ability to make a difficult craft look effortless. Over a 60-year career that has produced such masterpieces as Get Shorty and Rum Punch, Leonard’s apparently laid-back approach to crime fiction has masked plots as…

Radio interview with phone in. Illinois Public Radio.

In The Sublime Engine on February 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm

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The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart

Stephen Amidon, Novelist, Essayist, Critic

Thomas Amidon, M.D., Cardiologist in Kalispell, Montana

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