Praise for Don Swaim
• The H.L. Mencken Murder Case: “…there’s a dusty-attic charm to Mr. Swaim’s fond
evocation of bookshops past, and he couldn’t have enticed a livelier ghost than Mencken to haunt them.”—New York Times Sunday Book Review
About Whitman Days, Opium Nights: Walt Whitman’s emerging career as a poet in 1857 is endangered by a murderous blackmailer who threatens to reveal his life as a gay man. The repressed sexual nature of the Victorian age is seen through the eyes of a young department store heir who becomes enamored with Walt and begins to question his own sexuality.
