Author Archives: Granger Meador
Bartlesville in the State of Sequoyah
Alternate histories have been a literary trope for over two thousand years. Livy posed the question, in Parts 17-19 of Book 9 of his From the Founding of the City, “What would have been the results for Rome if she … Continue reading
Cheever’s Wapshots
A decade ago I purchased Kindle edition of The Stories of John Cheever, a collection which won a Pulitzer. I knew The New Yorker had published over 120 of his short stories, and I knew that The Swimmer, a 1968 … Continue reading
Closing Windows
After forty years, I have finally bidden farewell to Microsoft Windows. I had stopped using it at home in the spring of 2024, and my retirement at the end of June 2026 meant that I no longer used it at … Continue reading
Final Outings with Carlton Keith
The autumn of 2020 featured pandemic travel restrictions, and one of my responses was to collect from around the world each of the six adult mysteries authored by Carlton Keith, a pseudonym for Keith Robertson, who used his real name … Continue reading
Escaping to Scotland with Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart’s second novel, Wildfire at Midnight, is set on the coast of the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland. The first of her suspense romances I had read was her seventh, The Moon-Spinners of 1962, which … Continue reading
Meador Manor 