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Front cover of my second novel, "Family Ties"

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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Front cover of my first novel, "The Dust Will Answer"

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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To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum

20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018

The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…

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Rain Falls Like Rain

14 Apr 201814 Apr 2018

Here's a short story for you, one of my own favorites.... See more on my Medium site. The rain was steady now. There had been an hour of fury around…

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Here’s the Deal: Books Almost Free, No Money Needed

9 Apr 20189 Apr 2018

The common wisdom is that giving away books gets you reviews that gains you the attention of folks who'll actually buy books. Maybe this works, or maybe you just give…

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“That Electrifying Sensation”

4 Apr 20189 Apr 2018

Sorry, folks, but I've taken "That Electrifying Sensation" off Medium to try marketing the damn thing. Medium now has limited how many pieces one can read per month without paying…

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Crime and Punishment, American-Style

31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018

Lock the doors and latch the windows: it's time to read more noir--if you dare! Yes, I've got another story published in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, available now for Kindle,…

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Quickie Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s “Fury”

24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Just finished Salman Rushdie's Fury. This was my first taste of Rushdie, and it disappointed me. The protagonist is the usual brilliant academic undergoing a midlife crisis. (True, he is…

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River of Night

19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018

darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…

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How to Read My Books Gratis without Impoverishing Me

12 Mar 201813 Mar 2018

I get it: no one wants to spend money they don't have to, especially not on matters such as literature, which can only transform your soul...or give you a rollicking…

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Digital Editions Half-Price Till 10 March

5 Mar 20185 Mar 2018

Smashwords, which is where I produce my e-books (except for Kindle editions) is having a sitewide sale, so all my digital books are now available half-off there from March 4th to…

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Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff

4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018

This is the tenth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…