Here in southeast Florida, it’s hot, folks. Now, I’m a little weird: I love it. No AC during the day, 79 degrees at night, with a helicopter above my bed churning up a windstorm. I go dancing with a sweater on, while the gals in sleeveless attire are fanning themselves like mad. But I realize I […]
Remember Serpico? The 1973 hit movie by director Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino. You don’t? It was before your time? Hey, it was only 45 years ago. Still can’t place it? Well, the hell with you then. (Kidding, kidding.) Serpico popped into my mind tonight (June 28) while I was watching the Rachel Maddow show […]
Me (left); Dan Rather, holding my book As if the Palm Beaches weren’t home to enough celebs, including authors in various genres, the annual Palm Beach Book Festival imports some. From other states, that is. Nobody from outside the country, so far. They’d probably fear being locked up and deported by the guy who […]
Norton Museum of Art Les Nuages Donald Trump can trash our allies and praise our enemies all he wants, but his treasonous activities of late could not diminish the joie de vivre in a celebration of France on Saturday at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. baguettes Trump with […]
Mahatma Gandhi In context: I wrote this more than a week ago in response to a tirade that I received from a subscriber, which was full of misrepresentations. I never planned to include it in my newsletter, but decided after careful consideration that it merited wider attention. The subscriber had differed, to put it mildly, with […]
A subscriber pointed out that, in my post titled An Open Letter, which went out today, I made an error. The skirmish for which Bill O’Reilly claimed to have been present was in the Falkland Islands, east of the tip of South America, not the Galapagos Islands.
Sun The life of an author is full of ups and downs, like the Amazon rankings on hiser (my gender-neutral pronoun) books. One becomes addicted to checking those rankings, even while knowing the Amazon algorithm is a mystery, and the rankings aren’t always commensurate with sales. For example, my book Murder in Palm Beach: The […]
Yul Brynner, The King and I Hello, young readers, whoever you are, Or if you’re old, or almost. All my good pages go with you tonight, Just click this link I host. http://bit.ly/2Q1RBvm John Grisham I don’t claim to be the King of Siam, much less of Mysteries, and neither do any of […]
It’s been a long time since The Grammar Grouch has groaned and moaned, and he’s getting testy. Time for him to purge those damned, damned-up, obsessive-compulsive feelings. Why they call to mind the 1975 song by that name crooned by Brazilian singer Morris Albert, I have no idea. Feelings is a melancholy melody with sappy, […]
The Book Cellar At a downtown Lake Worth, Florida, store Tuesday night, a group of at least a dozen musicians stood just inside the door and posed for a photo. This wasn’t a music store. It was The Book Cellar, a bookstore that has blossomed into a community gathering place. In fact, when I walked […]