Recollections Of A Century Ago
100 years ago, this month, a great-great uncle of my wife’s was killed in Belgium in World War I…
The First “Great American Novel”
Its two marriageable-age young women, Alice and Cora, are central to the tale…
A Black Day
October 12, 2015: A black day I’ll never forget.
“If you want to test a man’s character…”
Much is being revealed now about the predatory sexual behaviors over the years of a famous and extraordinarily powerful film producer…
“You Are Here”: Dublin
On Friday evening we flew to Dublin from nearby London Luton airport for a weekend visit with Irish friends…
Le Mot « terrorisme »
As a novelist, I believe words do matter greatly…
The Answers We Always Seek
My cousin (my late novelist uncle’s son), his wife, and their three sons have lived for years in Newtown, Connecticut…
“New Adult” Fiction?
I thought that having done the Amazon ad for Conventions – and it is attracting interest – “How about the earlier books?”
An Unvisited Subcontinent
I find myself increasingly wanting eventually to write something that includes India. What I consider a major hurdle, however, is I have never been there.
“So you are a patriot…”
I got stuck briefly while writing yesterday and took a break. (I’m working on that short story, which it seems is now evolving into a short book.) Something made me pick up Distances…
