Announcement… Book Publishing Contract #3 27 Apr 2021 Yesterday I signed my third book contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, after sending them what could be considered a sequel to My Turn to Die, which they accepted a…
book review Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” 10 Apr 2021 in Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro has produced yet another novel that is equal part peculiar and affecting, in this case the story of an advanced AI in humanoid…
Announcement Book Publishing Contract #2! 17 Mar 2021 This morning I signed the contract with Basil E. Bacorn to publish my dark noir story, "My Turn to Die." Barring some impediment, it should come out in January of…
book review Micro-Review: “Blindness” 6 Mar 2021 Blindness, by José Saramago Just finished Saramago's Blindness, a bad choice to read during an actual pandemic, but a excellent if often brutal novel...though it is really more of an extended…
book review Musings on Proust, Part 9 12 Feb 2021 Proust Goes for a Laugh Proust had a bit of fun at his own expense in a comic bit that he put in is own words for a change, in…
book review Mini-Review: “The Lying Life of Adults” 27 Jan 2021 The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante In short: I loved it! An intense, passionate, honest, vulgar, and sublime poetic telling of the young girl's coming-of-age in crime-ridden Naples.…
book review Mini-Review: “Lithium for Medea” 20 Jan 2021 Lithium for Medea, by Kate Braverman An odd, passionate, and almost-perfect novel, written in a gush of negative ecstasy that echoes Allen Ginsberg's best work in but prose form, probably…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Announcement Book Publishing Contract! 9 Dec 2020 Well, hallelujah! This morning I signed a contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing for the production of a children's novel, due out around Midsummer of this year. The story is…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part Seven 12 Sep 2020 Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
