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A Reader’s Guide to Seminal Vigilante Heroes

Posted on April 27, 2024 7:05 pm GMT+0000 by bidinotto

I’ve decided to share a bit of my research into major vigilante heroes of fiction, starting with the early and most influential figures in the ever-evolving genre… Continue reading →

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Zorro: The Seminal Vigilante

Posted on May 8, 2021 7:26 pm GMT+0000 by bidinotto

I missed this article — “Zorro: The Archetypal American Vigilante” — when it was published in (surprisingly) The Washington Post in early January 2021. Writer Michael Sragow’s celebration of the 100th year of Zorro’s cinematic history gets just about everything … Continue reading →

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My Moral Teachers Were Fictional Lawbreakers

Posted on September 13, 2011 7:58 pm GMT+0000 by bidinotto

Interviewers have been asking me which writers have been most influential in my own development as a novelist. In coming posts, I shall pay homage to those authors. But first, I thought I would take a journey back many decades, … Continue reading →

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