Announcement… “Downwind from Trinity” 16 Jul 202016 Jul 2020 Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of perhaps the most significant event in human history up to now: the detonation for the first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in…
Announcement Not a Writing Credit, but…. 17 Mar 202017 Mar 2020 In September of last year, a new magazine, Rock and a Hard Place, published my story "Field of Honor" in their inaugural issue. Their second issue has just been released…
Announcement “Surface Tension” 12 Sep 201912 Sep 2019 Another story out now, in 34th Parallel magazine: you'll find "Surface Tension" in good company there, with lots of other stories, intense graphics, and bold photography...well worth paying for. Issue…
Announcement I’ve Got Mine…Now Get Yours! 19 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 I received my copy of American Writers Review at last, in yesterday's mail, and it is a handsome anthology: well-bound, with a good cover, and easy to read inside (despite…
Author post Manifesto 1 Apr 2019 What you see above is a scan of the invitation to an exhibit of my photos that took place ages ago in Santa Monica. The salient portion, of course, is…
Announcement… Old Wine in a New Bottle…. 28 Mar 20198 Jun 2019 Now my second novel, "Family Ties," bears a cover that does it a bit more justice. Once again, I thank graphic artist Rensi Ke for the design work! If you order…
Announcement Meet Me at the Gallery 22 Jan 2019 Reminder: I'll have two new prints in a group show at dnj Gallery in "What's New? (3)," opening Saturday, February 2nd, at 6pm--come to the reception! Wine, cheese, snacks, artists…
Announcement… 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…
Author post No Regrets 8 Aug 201710 Aug 2017 Long ago (but not far away), back at the dawn of time, I made a decision for which I've often been mocked and derided over the concatenated decades since: I…
Author post… Recursions, Part 2: Janet Malcolm’s “Forty-One False Starts” 20 Jul 201720 Jul 2017 This is the second 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…