Scott Holleran

Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss.Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com

Andrew Carnegie: An Intellectual Capitalist

Wealthy capitalist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an indefatigable steel tycoon—and he was also intellectual.

Waiting for Fidel

BOOK REVIEW: WAITING FOR FIDEL By Christopher Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $13) The Pope's visit to Cuba and Fidel Castro's subsequent release of political prisoners this week are a reminder that the Communist dictator still has a grip on Cuba's fate. Christopher Hunt's...

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