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• Herewith, I Quibble

  I read a short story in The New Yorker recently. Nothing unusual about that. Since its inception in 1925, the magazine has been properly praised for its... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Responding to a Rabbi’s Murder

  Not long ago I was asked to give a talk to a Jewish adult education group in London, Ontario. The request had come from a member who had learned of two books I... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Old Dogs, New Tricks

  There are signs lately that the old saw about old dogs and new tricks may be passé. Take that pathetic old rocker Ted Nugent, for example. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My First Cell Phone Nightmare

  So I had my first cell phone nightmare last night. I’m not talking about some frustrating episode that actually happened involving the ubiquitous little device... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Heroes…

  We seem to have a lot of them these days. Just read the papers or watch the news. No, I’m not talking about all those tireless journalists working their... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• At Least He Was Dead

  We had friends in from out of town a few weekends back, and because their Dallas Cowboys and our Detroit Lions both had games that started at 1 pm on Sunday, th... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Past Week Or So Has Been Passing Strange

  . Every day I’ve driven 15 minutes to the house I lived in for about two decades with the woman I divorced about seven years ago. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don’t Read This! Unless You Want to Speculate on Gone Girl’s New Cinematic Ending

  Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s domestic crime thriller, became a publishing sensation in 2012, began its journey to the silver screen with Flynn writing the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Morality of Pricing

  There’s been a lot of web chatter lately about what I’d call the morality of book pricing. The loudest noise, with perhaps the widest ramifications, came last... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Friend Elmore Leonard

  As it has for most booklovers, both readers and writers, this week has been a sad one for me. We lost Elmore Leonard at 87 this week, for my money the greatest... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Found Gold

  The other day I went Googling to see if I might have missed a published review of one of my books. I typed in one book and another came up, well down the list... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Making of Fiction

  Recently a reader friend, a woman I’ve never met, but with whom I’ve exchanged emails, left a review of my new novel The Car Bomb on the book’s Amazon page. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ms. Litlove

  Let me stop here for a moment to praise Victoria Louise Best. If the name is familiar, perhaps it’s because you know her blog, “Tales from the Reading Room,” on... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• EPIC PRISON SCAM VS. EPIC GENDER WAR, Part 2

  Last time I spent most of a lengthy post on John Grisham’s hot new one, The Racketeer and promised a comparison of sorts with Gillian Flynn’s super bestseller,... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• EPIC PRISON SCAM VS. EPIC GENDER WAR, Part 1

  Sorry, if you’ve dropped by here at all this year, you’ve found the same damn self-serving post day after day, week after week, month after month. And so you... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don’t Hide Your Light Under a Bushel

  Okay, far be it from me to argue with a classic old saying that apparently goes all the way back to Matthew (5:14-16) in the New Testament: “You are the light o... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Ship Has Come In!

  This morning I was in bed more or less minding my own business, and I decided to do what I often do under such circumstances: read my email on my very smart... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Why i Disappeared

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch, one of our most prolific and important bloggers on the business of writing and publishing, recently wrote a lengthy 3-part series of... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Unsympathetic Characters

  There’s been lots of chatter lately about the importance of populating a novel with sympathetic characters. We’ve had advice from agents about what will entice ... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Defeat

  So here’s just one way of looking at last night (November 6). It was a stunning defeat for: Mendacious Mitt The One Percent and those self-serving billionaires... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE