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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—until it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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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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Reality Check

29 Sep 20187 Oct 2018

What is a "real" book anyway? I ask this in the context of the ongoing dispute over paper versus digital literature. Maybe people, myself included, casually refer to print editions…

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Literacy Lit

21 Sep 201822 Sep 2018

I work part-time as an Adult Literacy Coordinator at the Echo Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, and one of the programs I started is a "literacy book…

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Join Us in Darkness….

18 Sep 2018

If you will be in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 27th, come to the Echo Park branch library for a night of live noir readings featuring Alec Cizak, who is…

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Recursions, Part 11: “Ulysses,” by James Joyce

10 Sep 201828 Sep 2018

This is the eleventh 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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“The Box Man” in Ginosko Literary Journal

8 Sep 2018

My short story, "The Box Man," has just been published by Ginosko Literary Journal, and you can read it for free on the very handsome PDF at: http://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko21.pdf (Page 92,…

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What’s New? Find Out Soon!

31 Aug 20182 Sep 2018

Although my primary focus is on writing, I am somewhat less unknown as an art photographer. I took a long detour through the mysteries of "writing with light," as the…

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The Tide

20 Aug 201820 Aug 2018

Another poem, because, well, writng poems is one thing humans do.... lazy ripples lap at tumbled rocks rising to the tidewrack of dead weeds then falling back, depleted and serene:…

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The Most Important Thing A Writer Can Do Is Write

7 Aug 2018

There is one indispensable step to writing, and that is that you must sit down and write. This is technically untrue, and was not such a hard and fast rule…

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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…