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Front cover of my second novel, "Family Ties"

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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Front cover of my first novel, "The Dust Will Answer"

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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Everything New Is Old Again

28 Aug 201718 Sep 2017

This morning, I glanced over from where I was reading to see my wife listening to music on her smartphone. I've done this too, though reluctantly: I don't mind plugging…

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Speech and Scribbles

24 Aug 201725 Aug 2017

No one is really sure yet where language comes from, whether it originates in the brain, or somewhere beyond, in the dim electric dancings of the universe. Surely if we…

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Five Essentials of Novel-Writing for Self-Published Authors

22 Aug 201722 Aug 2017

I scribed this for A Writer's Path, where it will appear sometime in the next month. Editor Ryan Lanz graciously suggested I feel free to publish it here first. It’s…

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Books in the Offing

18 Aug 201719 Aug 2017

Being both an English major and (once upon a time) a sailing man, I have a visual sense of what "in the offing" means: it describes the position of a…

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Novels and Nazis

14 Aug 201715 Aug 2017

Is there a place for novels and novelists when Nazis march the streets of a tarnishing America, and gather in the squares of Europe, while clans face off in the…

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Personal History, Part I

10 Aug 201712 Aug 2017

I confess that I wrote this years ago for an earlier website, but since it's all looking backwards, it still holds true. "Personal History, Part II" is still being written,…

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No Regrets

8 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

Long ago (but not far away), back at the dawn of time, I made a decision for which I've often been mocked and derided over the concatenated decades since: I…

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85,021

6 Aug 20178 Aug 2017

The third novel now stands at 85,021 words. This is close to what I'd envisioned as its final bulk, and in fact the first draft is close to finished. Just…

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Recursions, Part 6: Christopher Hitchens’s “Unacknowledged Legislation”

3 Aug 20175 Aug 2017

This is the sixth 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…

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Recursions, Part 5: Flannery O’Connor’s “Mystery and Manner”

30 Jul 201730 Jul 2017

This is the fifth 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…