Covid-19 A novel idea occurred to me the other day. Excuse me, I don’t mean I got an idea for writing another novel, not just after finishing the gut-wrenching process of penning a work of creative non-fiction that had me rifling through perhaps a couple thousand papers delivered to me in hopeless disarray. No, I’m […]
Senator Rick Scott A letter on the editorial page of the Palm Beach Post at the end of August so incensed me that I determined to write a newsletter about it if I could work my way out from a pile of projects, including the breaking of my contract with my publisher of Blood on […]
Doris Lessing Good thing I took a book with me to Nicaragua, because I didn’t take my email password. The book is The Grass Is Singing, by the late British author Doris Lessing. I didn’t know what the password was, and that was a huge problem, because I get about 325 to 350 emails a […]
Lubben Brothers The evening air under clear skies had just enough of a nip to be bracing, and the mix of folk, light rock and hints of jazz music by the Lubben Brothers drew sidewalk strollers to the stage for the talented duo’s takes on Christmas favorites and other delights, waxing inventive on guitar, […]
George Saunders In middle and high school literature classes, I remember grousing about having to look for the “hidden meanings” in short stories, mainly because I could never find them. Why don’t the authors just tell us what point they’re making, I wanted to know, without forcing us to bust our brains trying to […]
In my last article, I discussed how my authorial career has been a process of evolution, leading ultimately to my recently completed work…
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My books have been banned. It happened yesterday. No, they weren’t added to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ list of politically unacceptable…
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Politics aside, it’s a cold-hearted person who isn’t outraged by the gross injustices that occur all too often in this country’s justice…
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