Author: Drevil

Drevil earned his nickname at the cribbage table in his jail pod. His shaved head earned him the moniker Dr. Evil on the score sheet. Except someone forgot the dot and he was forever known as Drevil. He made it his mission to write reviews for every book he read during a long incarceration. We are proud to offer up as many of those reviews (and essays) as we could find.
Fiction Short Story

You Are My Dear Friend by Madhuri Vijay

29-year-old Geeta leaves her au pair job to marry much older divorcee Srikanth. They adopt eight-year-old Rani, an orphan girl from “the jungles.”

Essay

I Was A Prison GED Tutor

The most fulfilling job I have ever completed is GED tutor at Oregon State Penitentiary. I had better paying jobs, easier jobs and much more prestigious jobs, but none more rewarding. I was an inmate, just like my students. My pay was about $90 per month. The reward was seeing…

Nonfiction Reviews

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker’s fantastic work about the power of reason, humanism, science and progress.

Book v Movie Fiction

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

Pino becomes a spy for the allies, placed high in the German command. But he’s really just a kid, and he falls in love.

Nonfiction Reviews

White Guilt

I hate the concept of white guilt. As if I, a white man, cannot conceptualize racism and bigotry. As if I am excusing the hatred of my white heritage by trying to empathize with the abused. Maybe there are some haters out there who are incapable of understanding the harm,…

Fiction Reviews

When You Caused The Bad Things

The author wonders why there are so few self-help books for people who caused their own misery.

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