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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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Progress Report

2 May 2019

In a recent post, I expressed my relief and amazement at having finished the second draft of my fourth real novel. (I wrote several novels in my twenties, but they…

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Out Now, Out Soon

19 Apr 201919 Apr 2019

Out now: My short story, "Prisoners," is available now on Kindle in Switchblade magazine issue #9! Buy it now for less than three bucks (or free if you subscribe to…

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Steaming Along

15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019

There is an advantage to habit, or perhaps stubbornness, or perhaps some happy admixture of the two, seasoned with unwarranted optimism: I have finished the second draft of my fourth…

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Into the Finals….

2 Apr 20192 Apr 2019

Good news for me from Short Édition: "Congratulations! Your story, “Noodles for Breakfast,” has been selected as a finalist in the Button Fiction Spring Contest. We received over 250 submissions,…

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Manifesto

1 Apr 2019

What you see above is a scan of the invitation to an exhibit of my photos that took place ages ago in Santa Monica. The salient portion, of course, is…

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Old Wine in a New Bottle….

28 Mar 20198 Jun 2019

Now my second novel, "Family Ties," bears a cover that does it a bit more justice. Once again, I thank graphic artist Rensi Ke for the design work! If you order…

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Another Night in a Bar….

20 Mar 2019

What better place for a reading of noir tales than a dive bar in downtown Los Angeles? We met last Wednesday in a tiny storefront nook at the bottom of…

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Coming Soon, Straight to Your Eyeballs!

6 Mar 20197 Mar 2019

Three more recent acceptances should be appearing in the next few weeks. I've been sending stories out regularly, keeping each one at three or four journals, re-sending it as rejections…

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Another Night of Deep Noir Rants….

28 Feb 2019

Will be you be in Los Angeles on March 13th? Maybe you'd just better be, if you know what's good for you...yes, there's another hard-swearing, hot-tempered night of Live Noir…

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Another Tiny Victory

14 Feb 201914 Feb 2019

My short-short story, "Noodles for Breakfast," has just appeared on the Short Édition site, and is entered in a contest to qualify for inclusion in their short-story vending machines. Read…