Author post An Open Letter to the Parents Protesting Inclusive Literature in Schools 4 Jun 2023 Teaching about gay and trans life is not “grooming”; it is exploring the world as it is. You cannot turn a straight child gay, any more than you can turn…
Announcement… “The Wedding” 1 May 20201 May 2020 My short story, "The Wedding," has just come out in North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The fiction editor cut the short last paragraph, but the…
Announcement… “Six Poems” 7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020 Here we go: issue #41 of Cholla Needles magazine just came out, and it includes six of my recent poems, being: "To the Remembered" "Has to Be" "This Box of…
book review Mini Review: “Always Happy Hour,” by Mary Miller 27 Dec 2019 Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller Always Happy Hour is a satisfying and ultimately dismaying collection of short stories that could have been a country & western song, and probably…
Announcement… Live Reading in Westwood on September 9th 9 Aug 2019 I will be reading along with several other local authors on Monday, September 9th, at the Westwood Branch Library in West Los Angeles. We are all contributors to this year's…
Author post 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…
Author post When “Likes” Attract “Likes”–and Nothing Else 1 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 In electronics, the signal-to-noise ratio is the proportion of information carried in a transmission versus the hums, buzzes, and clicks in the carrier medium, be it radio waves or packet…
Announcement… To the Finish Line! 4 Sep 20174 Sep 2017 That's Frank's rat rod in the picture above. Of course he doesn't actually race it, but it's as close as I could get to a racing image without indulging in…
Announcement… Books in the Offing 18 Aug 201719 Aug 2017 Being both an English major and (once upon a time) a sailing man, I have a visual sense of what "in the offing" means: it describes the position of a…
Author post Novels and Nazis 14 Aug 201715 Aug 2017 Is there a place for novels and novelists when Nazis march the streets of a tarnishing America, and gather in the squares of Europe, while clans face off in the…
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