by Paul Thomas | May 3, 2009 | Essay, Sports
Paul Thomas2009-05-03 Back in the days before all sporting events of any significance and some of no significance at all were accorded live television coverage (or, in my case, before television itself), the young sports fan had to make do with books. This was the...
by Paul Thomas | Dec 20, 2008 | Americana
Paul Thomas2008-12-20 In Independence Day, the president leads an air raid against alien invaders. In Air Force One, the president saves his family from terrorists who’ve hijacked the presidential jumbo jet. And this week life imitated art when President George W....
by Paul Thomas | Sep 13, 2008 | Americana
Paul Thomas2008-09-13 As a UK newspaper put it, her rise from small-town girl to global icon demonstrates “the endless possibilities of the American Dream.” She’s a source of widespread fascination, an inspiration to those whose horizons mightn’t otherwise extend...
by Paul Thomas | May 3, 2004 | Americana, Essay
Paul Thomas2004-05-03 Evelyn Waugh described him as ‘the greatest living American novelist.’ T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden were equally big fans. His influence on popular culture was immense. He helped transform Hollywood’s treatment of crime and violence and, according...
by Paul Thomas | May 3, 2003 | Short Story
Paul Thomas2003-05-03 Marge Bristow had had it. Up to here. No, really, she’d reached the end of her tether. She sat in darkness in the home theatre of the house overlooking Raumati Beach. Melancholy pressed even more heavily on her as she recalled her husband’s...
by Paul Thomas | Jan 1, 2002 | Excerpt
Paul Thomas2002-01-01 Chapter 1 I’m not sure of anything any more. Except this: ignorance is bliss. What we don’t know can’t hurt us. And what we find out can erase our certainties, like words wiped off a blackboard. You can make up your own mind but, for what...
