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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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“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 201915 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…

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Progress Report

2 May 2019

In a recent post, I expressed my relief and amazement at having finished the second draft of my fourth real novel. (I wrote several novels in my twenties, but they…

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Out Now, Out Soon

19 Apr 201919 Apr 2019

Out now: My short story, "Prisoners," is available now on Kindle in Switchblade magazine issue #9! Buy it now for less than three bucks (or free if you subscribe to…

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Steaming Along

15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

There is an advantage to habit, or perhaps stubbornness, or perhaps some happy admixture of the two, seasoned with unwarranted optimism: I have finished the second draft of my fourth…

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Into the Finals….

2 Apr 20192 Apr 2019

Good news for me from Short Édition: "Congratulations! Your story, “Noodles for Breakfast,” has been selected as a finalist in the Button Fiction Spring Contest. We received over 250 submissions,…

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Manifesto

1 Apr 2019

What you see above is a scan of the invitation to an exhibit of my photos that took place ages ago in Santa Monica. The salient portion, of course, is…