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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…

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 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…

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…

Ten of Fifteen

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…

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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…

Book Publishing Contract!

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…

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“In Those Days”

20 Nov 202020 Nov 2020

The Bangalore Review has just published my story, "In Those Days," available to read for free online. This is my second appearance in this journal, which is based, as you…