One of my all-time favorite books is Our Gang, by the late, great Philip Roth. It was a deliciously devastating satire of President Richard Nixon and his cronies, prescient for its depiction of what became Watergate. I remember doubled up in laughter many years ago at the endless string of alliterative words in a segment […]
TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most enterprises are facing these days due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (I had to look up the “novel” part of that phrase to discover its meaning in this context, because I […]
Between my work on a book of creative nonfiction and prelaunch publicity for Blood on Their Hands, my legal thriller due for May 4 release, I am absorbed in The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian, worldwide-best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood. In the midst of all this, a friend of mine emailed a long treatise from the […]
Halley’s Comet It’s bird! It’s a plane. No, it’s Halley’s Comet. No, it’s … Blood on Their Hands. Take a look at the pictures on this page. Pretty easy to imagine the one of the flaming wheel as a comet hurtling through space, don’t you think? Hey, they don’t look that awfully different, and […]
Tara Reade Since I’m an author, one would imagine my blog posts would be about reads, right? So this post is about a read — sort of. It’s about a Reade. Tara Reade, to be exact. Herewith: Did Joe Biden sexually assault Tara Reade? I’ve doubted it, but haven’t been totally convinced. Now I am. […]
Ninety-nine Cents Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall. Ninety-nine cents to buy a darned good book, Ninety-nine cents, and no more. Be thorough, and have a good look. Get it and over its pages you’ll pore. […]
President Trump Government officials’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic shows perhaps more than ever before why people can’t depend on them, and need to think for themselves. I refer not just to President Trump’s speculation that ingestion of cleaning agents might kill the virus, or his early declaration that the pandemic was a hoax, […]
Finally, paperback copies of my novel Blood on Their Hands arrived today, in three large cardboard boxes. They look great, and now I can begin mailing them, with my signature, to anybody who wants one at a lower price than Amazon charges. To order, go to my website: http://bobbrinkwriter.com. That elevated my mood such that […]
George Floyd As the incident of police brutality in Minnesota unfolds on the TV screen, with more videos and evidence produced and murder charges filed, my mind relives the incident that gave rise to my latest novel, Blood on Their Hands. By the way, it’s on sale on Amazon in the Kindle edition for […]
Scene from The Handmaid’s Tale Repeatedly when I read The Handmaid’s Tale, the global best seller by Margaret Atwood, my mind reverted to two things: (1) the North Korean society depicted in Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son, and (2) the American society that Donald Trump is trying to convert to […]