Announcement… “A Yellow Tea Mug” 2 Nov 2020 Et voila! Another story has appeared in print (or should I say pixel) overnight: a somewhat abstract, or abstracted, musing on community in our difficult times…read "A Yellow Tea Mug"…
Announcement… “Return to Grace” 19 Oct 202019 Oct 2020 My short story, "Return to Grace," has just appeared in the October/November issue of Eclectica. Tom Dooley is an exacting editor, for I was last in his rag in 1997,…
book review Mini-Review: Patti Smith’s “Year of the Monkey” 6 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 Just finished Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey. Superbly written, with echoes of Pound and Bukowski, among others, and an overall feel similar to chapter 14 in Joyce's Ulysses, with…
Announcement… “The Finn Girl, or Woman” 1 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 My short story, "The Finn Girl, or Woman," has just appeared in the first volume of what hopes to be an annual collection, called Fiction Junkie. This is a new…
Announcement… “Cat in the Sun” 25 Sep 202025 Sep 2020 A very short story of mine called "Cat in the Sun" has just appeared in The Thieving Magpie magazine's Fall 2020 issue. Of course I was riffing on Hemingway's "Cat…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part Seven 12 Sep 2020 Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
Announcement… “Photographers” a Finalist 4 Sep 2020 My short story, "Photographers," is now a finalist in Short Édition's "America: Color It In" competition, and it could use a few reader votes. So how about you head on…
book review Mini-Review: “He Came in with It: a Portrait of Motherhood and Madness,” by Miriam Feldman 22 Aug 202022 Aug 2020 He Came in with It: a Portrait of Motherhood and Madness, by Miriam Feldman I won't do a full review of this intense and engaging memoir, because I've known the…
Announcement… “The Air like Water” 7 Aug 2020 My poem, "The Air like Water," has just appeared in the Grey Sparrow literary journal. Cast your eyes on it at: Grey Sparrow: "The Air like Water" As usual, the…
Announcement… “Bohemia Street” 4 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 Here comes another one! My short story, "Bohemia Street," has just appeared in Cutthroat Magazine's issue 25. (No, it's not noir; the rag's named after the fish. Don't ask me…
