There came a day when I ended the new novel – the story arc had done its job, started out and then ramped up the tension and then came to a climax and then began to wind down and then came to an end. All the elements were there. The bones, the skeleton, of a [...]
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This week I realized something that made me squirm; there’s a sacred cow in movies that I hate. And I’m ashamed to tell people. I’ve never heard of anyone disliking this movie. When I mention I don’t like it, people act like I’ve kicked Mother Teresa in the mouth. After I shot her. And peed [...] I am a child of the Diaspora. My parents and grandparents, together with a few other family members, fled Nazi Germany in the mid-thirties. The rest did not make it out. Those who did are, even now, spread around the world: Australia, South America, Israel, London, Austria, and South Africa. To say that [...] Tuesday, I have an interview for a part-time job that will offer a little extra money, but–more importantly–health insurance. I am supernaturally ambivalent. See, it would be nice to have the extra money, and I really do need to sort out my healthcare situation because I live in the would-be third-world nation of the United States of [...] As the death toll from the Haitian earthquake rolls upward and the aftershocks continue to rumble, I’m stunned at how fast people have been able to pull together to offer support for Haiti’s battered people. In just a few days—in some cases barely in a few hours—people and organizations have been able to pull together [...] I hate writing, I love having written — that’s not true for me, but some people find the actual writing part such a hurdle that they never get to appreciate having [...]
Actually, there are two that come to mind. First, McPherson & Co. (then Treacle Press) published my novel, The Best Laugh Last in hardback in 1982 and then as a trade paperback in 1983. For over twenty-five years it has haunted me. By that I mean it has been an albatross around my neck, [...] Simple fact: Now and then it’s not as easy to keep your pace. Life is full of obstacles and some of them will do amazingly good jobs of destroying your attention span. It’s hard to keep your momentum on something as trivial as writing a book when the world hauls off and knocks you on [...] |
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