Tom Glenn
Tom Glenn has worked as an undercover agent, a musician, a linguist (seven languages), a cryptologist, a government executive, a federal budgeteer, a care-giver for the dying, and, always, a writer. Many of his prize-winning stories came from the thirteen years he spent shuttling between the U.S. and Vietnam on covert assignment. Nearly all his writing is, in one way or another, about fathers and children (he has four) and is haunted by his five years of work with AIDS patients (all gay, all died), two years of helping the homeless, and seven years of caring for the dying in the hospice system. His stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Potpourri, The Baltimore Review, and Antietam Review among many others. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and a Baltimore ArtScape Literary award and won the Hackney Literary Award. Four of his novels have won Maryland Writers Association awards, including the grand prize in 2004 and first prize for literary/mainstream in 2010. His web site is http://tom-tells-tales.org
22 entries by Tom Glenn
Two very different books on opera feature the career of a once-leading baritone and the life of Richard Wagner.
Tom Glenn speaks with the author of Blood Chit about his book and his experiences in Vietnam.
Blood Chit
Grady Smith
The horror of war and its traumatic aftermath are the transfixing center of the author’s first novel.
A continuation of a conversation between novelist John Locke and WIRoB reviewer Tom Glenn.
Tom Glenn discusses the differences between men and women with the author of Duels and Duets.
The author of Red Flags on the Vietnam War responds to our review by Tom Glenn.
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
In a novel stuffed with characters and strange events from history, an accomplished forger struggles to discover who he really is.
Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
Lewis Sorley
A thoughtful biography examines the career of the man who did everything “by the book,” but never quite understood the biggest enemy he came up against.
Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently
John L. Locke
A look at the biological evidence behind miscommunication between members of the opposite sex.
Tom Glenn speaks with the author of Verdi's Shakespeare.
Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater
Garry Wills
From a prize-winning writer, a study of two geniuses who, together, have probably done more to shape modern theater than any other.
The House That War Minister Built
Andrew Imbrie Dayton and Elahe Talieh Dayton
Three generations of an Iranian family struggle to survive and prosper in the midst of their country’s bloody history.
Tom Glenn interviews the author of Red Flags.
Red Flags
Juris Jurjevics
For the reviewer, this masterful novel of Vietnam stirred up memories all too real.
More than 40 years after his service in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes describes coming to terms with the emotional scars of combat in What It Is Like to Go to War.
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl Marlantes
Coming to terms with the gruesome truth of combat, by a veteran of Vietnam.
Weep Shudder Die: A Guide to Loving Opera
Robert Levine
Easing into the art of "drama by means of music."
A detailed look at some FBI operations designed to thwart Chinese espionage against the United States.
Last Men Out: The True Story of America’s Heroic...
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
The harrowing story of how 11 Marines, doing their jobs, oversaw the escape of thousands from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
Who Shot The Water Buffalo
Ken Babbs
Antics of two Marine helicopter pilots fill this Vietnam novel written by a Marine pilot who served in Vietnam.
The Second Son
Jonathan Rabb
Tom Glenn reviews this final book of Rabb's trilogy, set during the Spanish Civil War.
Wild Bill Donovan
Douglas Waller
The spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage: a story of bravado in early shadow warfare.
