Announcement… The End of Something Else 28 Oct 20189 Nov 2018 As some of you may know, I have been working part-time as an "Adult Literacy Coordinator" in the Echo Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library for the last…
Announcement… Another Fine Mess 21 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 My flash fiction piece, "The Invalid," has been published online in Short Édition, and is entered in one of their contests, so read it and maybe also vote for it,…
Author post Reading Is a Gift, Not a Purchase 14 Oct 2018 This is a reprint of an article I originally posted in Sustainable City News early in 2016, though I edited it very lightly for Crow Tree. I shall not be…
book review Book Review: “Republic of Drivers,” by Cotton Seiler 5 Oct 201826 Oct 2023 If you're interested in the cultural matrices that make up US culture, you can't avoid studying the country's obsession with cars. Here's my review of a well-written and thorough study…
Author post Reality Check 29 Sep 20187 Oct 2018 What is a "real" book anyway? I ask this in the context of the ongoing dispute over paper versus digital literature. Maybe people, myself included, casually refer to print editions…
Author post Literacy Lit 21 Sep 201822 Sep 2018 I work part-time as an Adult Literacy Coordinator at the Echo Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, and one of the programs I started is a "literacy book…
Announcement… Join Us in Darkness…. 18 Sep 2018 If you will be in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 27th, come to the Echo Park branch library for a night of live noir readings featuring Alec Cizak, who is…
Author post… Recursions, Part 11: “Ulysses,” by James Joyce 10 Sep 201828 Sep 2018 This is the eleventh 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…
Announcement “The Box Man” in Ginosko Literary Journal 8 Sep 2018 My short story, "The Box Man," has just been published by Ginosko Literary Journal, and you can read it for free on the very handsome PDF at: http://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko21.pdf (Page 92,…
Announcement… What’s New? Find Out Soon! 31 Aug 20182 Sep 2018 Although my primary focus is on writing, I am somewhat less unknown as an art photographer. I took a long detour through the mysteries of "writing with light," as the…
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