One disgruntled customer on Amazon described James Lear’s books as “smut with pretensions,” and I think this is actually quite a good summary of the Lear method. The books are unashamedly ...

Then Zipper Books ceased publication, and there the story might have ended – but for the fact that James Lear – my "nom de porn" – had developed a life of his own. I was surprised by the ...

The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful farce. When he died in 1888, he left a jumble sale of assorted scribblings, some illustrated travel books rarely looked ...

Longtime thesp-writer James Mitchell Lear died in Florida July 14 ... wrote several screenplays and recently completed a children’s book as well as his autobiography titled (with a wink ...

When the aged Lear divvies up his kingdom between ... Collecting, and Living With Books." Shakespeare, as James Shapiro reminds us, was "the true 'Mirror of Great Britain,' " reflecting in ...

The city was in an uproar, the government on armed alert, and near-panic turned to jubilation when James (who is the shadow protagonist of this book) returned to the city unharmed. “Modern-day ...

His new book, 1606: William Shakespeare ... In coming to the throne, James was bringing together Scotland and England. Lear offered a disturbing counter-portrait of ancient Britain divided.

As James was pushing to unite England and Scotland, Shakespeare produced King Lear, a play about a British king who destroys ... He was formerly Prospect’s managing editor and arts and books editor.