book review Musings on Proust, Part 9 12 Feb 2021 Proust Goes for a Laugh Proust had a bit of fun at his own expense in a comic bit that he put in is own words for a change, in…
book review Mini-Review: “The Lying Life of Adults” 27 Jan 2021 The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante In short: I loved it! An intense, passionate, honest, vulgar, and sublime poetic telling of the young girl's coming-of-age in crime-ridden Naples.…
book review Mini-Review: “Lithium for Medea” 20 Jan 2021 Lithium for Medea, by Kate Braverman An odd, passionate, and almost-perfect novel, written in a gush of negative ecstasy that echoes Allen Ginsberg's best work in but prose form, probably…
Announcement… “Stardust Melody” 10 Jan 202110 Jan 2021 If you'd like a moment of distraction, a very short story of mine entitled "Stardust Melody" has just appeared in Zodiac Literary Journal. (The story does touch on social issues,…
Announcement… “The Toy Thief” 2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021 This is a bit of an odd announcement, as you cannot yet actually obtain this issue of The Awakenings Review on its website--Covid has disrupted the organization's work so much…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Announcement… “Road Ends” 19 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 A new short story of mine has just been published in Off Course, a journal of State University of New York at Albany. It's the tale of two men who…
Announcement Ten of Fifteen 19 Dec 2020 Just used up ten of my Warholian fifteen minutes yesterday, when Chat & Spin radio in the UK interviewed me about my novels. The interview is available in their archives…
Announcement… Two Stories Today…. 12 Dec 202012 Dec 2020 Two short stories out in magazines this week! Relentlessly submitting good work in the face of constant rejection does have its rewards...because eventually you find an editor who's looking for…
Announcement Book Publishing Contract! 9 Dec 2020 Well, hallelujah! This morning I signed a contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing for the production of a children's novel, due out around Midsummer of this year. The story is…
