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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…

Musings on Proust, part Six

I am done (shall I say, "at long last"?) with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Tome II of La recherche. When last we left our hero, he was…

California Dreamin’

Times are tough: not only do we have the new coronavirus to watch out for, which requires constant vigilance against an invisible assailant, but we have the all-too-visible assailants driven…

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Novella Time

I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…

Musings on Proust, part 5

13 May 202013 May 2020

I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…

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Live Virtual Reading

11 May 202011 May 2020

Live events being off the table for now, Rich Soos, editor at Cholla Needles, just set up a virtual table: he asked all the poets who have been featured lately…

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“The Wedding”

1 May 20201 May 2020

My short story, "The Wedding," has just come out in North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The fiction editor cut the short last paragraph, but the…

Half a Face Is Better than None

27 Apr 202027 Apr 2020

There are pleasures to be found even in lockdown. There are discoveries to be made in the small minutes of living that make up so much more of our lives…

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“The Mechanical Dancer”

19 Apr 202019 Apr 2020

A new story of mine has just appeared in Potato Soup Journal. Available free to read online! Go to: "The Mechanical Dancer" Although this is a stand-alone story, it is…

Musings on Proust, Part 4

15 Apr 202016 Apr 2020

Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…

Musings on Proust, part 3

I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…