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From Chip: My third book will be in bookstores by early January, with a signing to which ALL my friends at St. Paul's are invited at Fountain Books, Jan. 8, Saturday, Noon. It's called War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II, and tells about the life and times of the brave Marines who filmed combat from Tarawa to Iwo Jima. So I celebrate another chapter in my writing life, and hope anyone who enjoys history, Hollywood, or just a good story will come to Fountain Books on Cary Street at Shockoe Slip to join Debbie and me for the book's launch.

"If hope springs eternal, then why does looking for a job often feel so hopeless?

When I see newspaper or TV accounts of unemployed people lining up at "job fairs" (which don't seem fair at all), clutching résumés and looking stoically ahead into uncertain futures, I wonder if these are the images that historians will use in the 22nd century to describe our prolonged period of economic nausea.

Are they our epoch's equivalent of the graphic Depression photographs captured by Walker Evans in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men?

After reluctantly leaving a job early this year, I experienced for the first time some measure of that gut-churning, insecure feeling of being jobless at a very bad point in our nation's history..." Click here to keep reading.