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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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The Dust Will Answer: a Novel

No Lofts, No Lattes. No Law. 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and…

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Front cover of my collected essays, "Our Own Day Here"

Our Own Day Here: Essays on Urbanity

Urbanist, cyclist, and lifelong flaneur Richard Risemberg explores the chaos, contradictions, and conviviality of life among the humans in and…

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Mini Review: “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison

13 Jun 201915 Jun 2019

Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison If you threw J. D. Salinger, Oscar Wilde, Jack London, and maybe Gerald Durrell into a blender, added a spoonful of Warhol and a dollop…

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The Big Cover-Up

8 Jun 2019

It's a big cover-up: same great text, but suspiciously better presentation! I took the photos, but it's graphic artist Rensi Ke who turned them into real book covers. You can…

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American Writers Review

31 May 201931 May 2019

Here we go again...the 2019 issue of American Writers Review is available now on Amazon, $15.00 for a nice fat print book full of short stories. Including one of mine, "Beach…

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Printed in Blood….

29 May 2019

The print edition of Switchblade #9, which includes my story, "Prisoners," is now available at Amazon. And given the contents of this deeply noir compilation, it should be printed in…

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Waiting Game

27 May 201927 May 2019

The waiting game is always a bit difficult: the one, I mean, which you play after the story has been accepted but before it appears in print or online. After…

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“Prisoners” Reviewed

19 May 2019

As you may know, I have published three stories in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, since early last year. Here's a favorable review of the current issue, Switchblade #9, with this…

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Managing Distraction

19 May 2019

I recently saw an ad for the Freewrite, a "distraction-free" portable word processor--that is, one with no Internet capability. I immediately recognized it as something inspired by the old Alphasmart…

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Mini Review: “Neon in Daylight,” by Hermione Hoby

18 May 201918 May 2019

Neon in Daylight, by Hermione Hoby I'm of two minds about this book. I enjoyed it well enough that I am glad I read it, and I do recommend it.…

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Machine Reading

15 May 201929 May 2019

My story, "Noodles for Breakfast," is now officially published in the edited section of Short Édition’s website, as well as in their short-story dispensing machines around the English-speaking world! And it's…

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Growth and Good-byes

6 May 2019

I have decided to close my Medium account, and in fact deleted it this morning. The service and its readers have been good to me--"liking" stories and poems and providing…