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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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Reading Is a Gift, Not a Purchase

14 Oct 2018

This is a reprint of an article I originally posted in Sustainable City News early in 2016, though I edited it very lightly for Crow Tree. I shall not be…

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Book Review: “Republic of Drivers,” by Cotton Seiler

5 Oct 2018

If you're interested in the cultural matrices that make up US culture, you can't avoid studying the country's obsession with cars. Here's my review of a well-written and thorough study…

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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…