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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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Quickie Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s “Fury”

24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018

Just finished Salman Rushdie's Fury. This was my first taste of Rushdie, and it disappointed me. The protagonist is the usual brilliant academic undergoing a midlife crisis. (True, he is…

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River of Night

19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018

darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…

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How to Read My Books Gratis without Impoverishing Me

12 Mar 201813 Mar 2018

I get it: no one wants to spend money they don't have to, especially not on matters such as literature, which can only transform your soul...or give you a rollicking…

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Digital Editions Half-Price Till 10 March

5 Mar 20185 Mar 2018

Smashwords, which is where I produce my e-books (except for Kindle editions) is having a sitewide sale, so all my digital books are now available half-off there from March 4th to…

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Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff

4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018

This is the tenth 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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Teaser: “My Turn to Die”

28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018

I have finished the third draft of my next novel, titled My Turn to Die, and am grinding through the process of offering to agents while deciding whether I'd really…

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Old Man Reading Out Loud, with Accomplices

25 Feb 201825 Feb 2018

Well, not all of you missed it--I mean last Friday's "Noir in NELA" reading at Jen Hitchcock's edgy little shop, called Book Show LA. The room was packed! Sure, it was…

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A Book by Its Cover: Advice for the Self-Published

19 Feb 201819 Feb 2018

If your work is to be produced by a trade publisher, the cover will be entirely out of your hands. This can be a good thing, and it can be…

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Poetry Run

10 Feb 201810 Feb 2018

So one has to take a break from the prosaic now and then...my "vacation" has been a return to my roots in poetry. Normally this would be a dangerous thing,…

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Will You Be in Los Angeles on February 23rd?

5 Feb 20185 Feb 2018

What will you be doing in Los Angeles on February 23rd, 2018? Whatever it is, start feeling guilty if it does not involve attending the Live Noir Reading at BookShow…