Dr. David Brownstein A public service announcement from your friendly scribe. We’re all scared as heck about this diabolical coronavirus, and I thought you might want to know what my favorite doctor in the country, who has authored about 15 books, says we should do about it. He’s Dr. David Brownstein of West Bloomfield, […]
Line outside Costco store in California You may think at first that the tirade I’m embarking on has nothing to do with books, but please be patient; I’ll get there. Last week, I thought an anomaly had occurred in the hurricane season and its arrival was 2 ½ months early. Upon visiting my local Costco […]
Dr. David Brownstein Dear readers, I don’t mean to flood you with my newsletter, but I felt that this is something you would want to read. It’s from a medical doctor in whom I have much confidence and great respect, Dr. David Brownstein of West Bloomfield, Mich. He lectures internationally to other doctors, and is […]
Yippie ki yay!!! It’s finally happening. Sixteen months after I signed a contract for publication of my new novel, Blood on Their Hands, the book is set for release. The date is May 4. But the Kindle version is already up on Amazon. Here’s the link, in abbreviated form: https://tinyurl.com/uz72onm. Novel due for release May […]
Pavlovian Theory For much of my life, I thoroughly enjoyed going to the movies. Unattached the last 20-plus years, however, my trips to the movie theaters have been infrequent, even rare. One of the things I used to love was munching popcorn before the feature film began, watching the scene snippets that previewed coming films. […]
From left: Drs. Richard Ng, David Brownstein, Jeffrey Nusbaum Hard upon a blog post concerning my new book, Blood on Their Hands, I’m putting that aside momentarily for something else that is – well, more concerning. Can you guess what it is? What is the thing that is of greatest concern to most of us […]
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 […]