Frank Stewart

A collection of hands that take the reader through a year at the author's (fictional) bridge club. The characters make all the common errors, so the author manages to instruct while he entertains. For fans of Stewart's enormously popular syndicated bridge column, in which these characters appear regularly.

A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries,

Follow an unforgettable cast of characters through an incredible saga exposing one of America's darkest hours. Share the pain of the Cherokees driven from their beloved forests, winding rivers and mountain cabins. Endure with them the hardships in the concentration camps and on the Trail of Tears as they are forced to march halfway across a frozen continent in the harshest winter in years. Woven throughout this irrepressible tale of tragedy & tribulation you will discover the humor & the passion, the love & the hatred, the strengths & the weaknesses of a noble people.

The Bridge Book (Volume 2: For Intermediate Players) Paperback – November, 1988 by Frank Stewart (Author), Randall Baron (Author), Jude Goodwin (Illustrator)

Book by Stewart, Frank

Hundreds of instructive deals and quizzes to sharpen your defensive play.

The “over-my-shoulder” genre in bridge literature became prominent in the writing of Terence Reese -- he was unsurpassed at it -- and continued in the work of writers such as Mike Lawrence, Larry Cohen and myself. The reader gets access into the mind of an expert player and follows his thought processes. The reader is exposed to techniques -- such as counting and drawing inferences -- that are supposedly reserved for experts.In this book you sit beside me for 90 deals and can compare your decisions with mine. Most of the deals present problems on a level I would call “intermediate.” You won't agree with all my actions; bridge involves personal style and judgment. My at-the-table analysis may not even be error-free; that's part of the game also. Still, I hope you will find it interesting and instructive to listen in on my thoughts.

Many elements contribute to success at bridge. Frank believes that two areas account for the difference between players who do well consistently and those who struggle. (1) A winning player has rock-solid fundamentals. The best part of an expert's game is that he never -- never -- boots a simple situation. Give him a basic bidding problem or a textbook exercise in dummy play and he will get it right. If you never make errors in basic technique, you will have an edge over 90% of your competitors. (2) A winning player keeps avoidable errors to a minimum. Bridge is a game of mistakes. Nobody has ever played a perfect session, nobody ever will. Everybody makes mistakes. Winners make the fewest. This quote is attributed to Bob “All players are poor players, including some good players.” Hamman wasn't being opprobrious; he was just acknowledging that we all have shortcomings. Many types of errors are mishandling suit combinations, forgetting to count, missing inferences. Maybe the majority of errors stem from lapses in concentration.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, Silence to Light illuminates the tumultuous period, and the aftermath of World War II and the war in Asia. Through fiction, memoirs, film scripts, poetry, and manga (Japanese cartoons), the volume brings to light the personal and communal memories that have disappeared into silence. Readers get a new and vivid perspective on such events as the Manchurian Incident, the rape of Nanking, Japanese American internment, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The authors include well-know Japanese figures, such as Yukio Mishima and Dazai Osamu, and such contemporary authors as Hayashi Kyoko, Choko Ishigaki, and Keiji Nakazawa. American authors adding their perspective include Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Donald Ritchie, and Gladys Swan. Work by Linda Gregg, Martha Zweig, and other American authors is also included.

An introduction to inference, counting, assumption and related topics, things players can use to see their opponents' cards. It's in a quiz format and treats both declarer play and defense. This book is full of interesting deals in which finding a missing queen, or one of her relatives, is the key to making a contract. The problems cover various types of logical thinking, counting and drawing inferences from the bidding, opening lead, and later play. See how many you can solve!

A compendium of advice for the improving player from one of North America's best-known bridge teachers and writers. Each tip is bite-sized - 3-4 pages in length - so the reader can dip in briefly and still take away an important idea. As well as the usual sections on bidding, play and defense, the author includes much advice on the psychological aspects of the game, including how to be a good partner. Frank Stewart is one of the most distinguished bridge writers and journalists in North America, with over twenty books to his credit. A major contributor to the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge and a regular writer for the ACBL Bulletin, he is perhaps best-known today as the author of the nationally-syndicated 'Daily Bridge Club' daily newspaper column. He lives in Fayette, Alabama.