Hamlet – Michael A. Kahn

Now We Can All Take That Road Not Taken! The Copyright Freeze Has Melted

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by Michael Kahn

Once again my dual lives as a lawyer by day and an author at night have intersected in what is unquestionably a happy new year for all of us–including even Mickey Mouse. Two decades ago the Congress passed an amendment to the Copyright Act that added an additional twenty years to lives of the copyrights…

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I’m Sorry, Anna.

Posted on December 9, 2017October 26, 2019 by Michael Kahn

For more years than I’d care to admit, my take on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina was perfectly summed up by fellow Missourian Mark Twain, who famously defined a “classic” as a novel “that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” But then a few months ago, while browsing my bookshelves in…

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Bromance: My Favorite Fictional Couple

Posted on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 by Michael Kahn

I recently received a question on the Goodreads website asking who was my favorite fictional couple, and why. My first reaction was to flip through all of the literary lovers I’d encountered over the years–a list that includes: Romeo & Juliet; Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy; Lancelot & Guinevere; Odysseus & Penelope; Scarlett O’Hara &…

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Top 10 Baseball Walk-Up Songs in Literature

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Michael Kahn

For the true baseball fans among us, name a favorite player and you can name his walk-up song. Same for your team’s closer (whose walk-up song is known as the “entrance song”). For the uninitiated, a walk-up song is that heavy metal, hip hop, or country tune that blares throughout the stadium as the player…

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