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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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“Blank Wall” and “Mud and Salt”

Two of my recent poems have just appeared in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of The Wayfarer, an excellent compendium of essays, interviews, poems, and regular columns on a variety of…

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“The Waiting Room”

This was a relief: after a February devoid of publications (though fortunately not of acceptances!), one of my short stories has appeared in print and pixel.... "The Waiting Room" is…

Micro-Review: “Blindness”

Blindness, by José Saramago Just finished Saramago's Blindness, a bad choice to read during an actual pandemic, but a excellent if often brutal novel...though it is really more of an extended…

Musings on Proust, Part 9

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…

Mini-Review: “The Lying Life of Adults”

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.…

Mini-Review: “Lithium for Medea”

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…

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“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,…

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“The Toy Thief”

2 Jan 202122 May 2021

(This story was published in The Awakenings Review in January--but Covid had disrupted the organization's work so much that everything's behind schedule. It is now available for purchase online at…

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.…

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“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…