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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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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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American Fugue: Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”

30 Jul 20182 Aug 2018

Some scholarly-minded sorts have made a parlor game of trying to identify actual landmarks in Hemingway's masterful short story, "Big Two-Hearted River." They complain that the burnt town named as…

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Locals Only: Books & Bikes Meet

12 Jul 2018

Almost every month, on the last Sunday, I join the Street Librarians Ride in central Los Angeles. We meet at a delightful little bookstore and café called Stories, in LA's…

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Two Modest Updates

8 Jul 2018

A couple of modest updates for those who are interested in books, more specifically in my novels.... I just dropped the price of my noir novels in .epub format to…

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Friends, Colleagues, Acquaintances! Lend Me Your Eyeballs!

2 Jul 20182 Jul 2018

If you are reading this, you probably have some interest in my writing. And that perhaps allows me to ask you a favor. But fear not! It will cost you…

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Interview with the Author

25 Jun 2018

The first book I put together was a collection of essays, Our Own Day Here, which comprise explorations of urban life in all of its aspects, from the poetry of…

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Boat Channel

18 Jun 201818 Jun 2018

Just another poem, this one in blank verse, for a change from the usual.... This bit of trapped Pacific, trammeled here by silt and broken stone: to the white hulls…

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Odds and Ads

7 Jun 20188 Jun 2018

This is the way it is: if your book does not enjoy extensive publicity, it will not sell. This is not a hard and fast rule--miracles do happen through word…

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On the Street

31 May 201831 May 2018

Just wanted to let you all know that Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, which has been foolish enough to publish two of my crime stories so far, is available at…

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“Tell Your Story, Sell Your Story”

17 May 201817 May 2018

Interested in self-publishing? Will you be in Los Angeles on June 9th? Then come on over to Book Show LA, where I'll be part of a two-hour seminar on the…

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The Price of a Burger

8 May 20188 May 2018

Yes, it's ironic that I've titled a story thus, considering that I've been a vegetarian for fifty years, but...it's not about me. This is a rewrite of one chapter…