Most people in most places live through four seasons a year. But those of us with the hard-to-kick habit of writing books also experience another four-part cycle—different from the … Read More
🎧Audiobook Sample So here’s a question: How does Bert the Shirt sound? I mean, a lot of us know how he talks. He talks funny. He talks Brooklynese. He … Read More
Well, while half-heartedly searching through this morning’s papers for a scrap of something—anything!—other than more doom and gloom about Covid-19, I happened across an article in the UK edition of … Read More
Well, it all started with a random piece of Beatles trivia… Turned out the Fab Four made an unplanned visit to Key West in 1964. Turned out they stayed … Read More
Thanks to all of you who clicked through from the mailing. For those who just happened to come across this post while perusing the website—thanks for that!—a recap is in … Read More
Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture! Those were the bold and thrilling words emblazoned across the top of the very first paperback edition of Florida Straits in 1993. The … Read More
By coincidence, or so it seemed, the rooster set up shop on the far side of the compound fence just around the time old Bert had his fall. The … Read More
The world was new and life was simple then. The year, I think, was 1999. Facebook hadn’t yet been founded. The iPhone was a far-off gleam in Apple’s eye. People … Read More
Does anyone out there remember the 1941 Preston Sturges classic, Sullivan’s Travels? The protagonist of that wonderful film is a highly successful director of unabashedly escapist Hollywood comedies who wakes … Read More
Some books—the writing of them, I mean—just seem to start themselves. A first sentence pops into your head. You hear a scrap of dialogue—either out in the world or between … Read More