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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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Front cover of my collected essays, "Our Own Day Here"

Our Own Day Here: Essays on Urbanity

Urbanist, cyclist, and lifelong flaneur Richard Risemberg explores the chaos, contradictions, and conviviality of life among the humans in and…

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“Rain Falls Like Rain”

4 Feb 2019

Another short story of mine has just appeared in the UK online journal, Fiction on the Web. It's, again, a thousand-word flash-fiction bit, so take a minute or five to…

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Book Review: Anna Burns’s “Milkman”

28 Jan 201929 Jan 2019

Milkman, by Anna Burns This book shares some characteristics with Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, which by chance I read just before picking Milkman up at the library: both explore themes…

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Writing Coach

28 Jan 201928 Jan 2019

I'm setting up as a writing coach and consultant, to combine my love of literature and my skills at teaching...see my new (and not yet definitive) webpage for it here:…

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Meet Me at the Gallery

22 Jan 2019

Reminder: I'll have two new prints in a group show at dnj Gallery in "What's New? (3)," opening Saturday, February 2nd, at 6pm--come to the reception! Wine, cheese, snacks, artists…

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Yes, Another Story Published!

16 Jan 2019

You heard right--I've managed to get another one published. This ones a flash fiction piece of one thousand words, released into the wild this morning at Front Porch Review. I…

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Check Off Another One….

11 Jan 2019

I'd like to bring your attention to yet another story published, this time in Canadian journal Scarlet Leaf Review, edited by Roxana Nastase. The story is one of the few…

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Happy New Year!

1 Jan 2019

Last year is over with, according to the calendar, and a new year begins, with the same sun rising every dawn. Last year brought me minor triumphs and major worries,…

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Fish Eggs and Fiction

17 Dec 201824 Jan 2019

After a long dry spell, I suddenly began placing stories in small-press magazines this year--even some that paid in cash! Since last winter, I have "sold"--sometimes for pay, sometimes compensated…

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Another Story Published

12 Dec 201812 Dec 2018

The Fall 2018 issue of Mystery Tribune is now available on Amazon, and includes my story, "The Natural Order of Things." Which is a very different sort of noir, set in…

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Last Chance to Vote…for Me

9 Dec 2018

Now that I'm a finalist in Short Édition's story contest, it's time to beg for votes to give me a chance at the grand prize. This prize involves both money…