I would like to invite you all to visit The Full-Bodied (Book) Blog where I am featuring the publisher and authors at Pearlsong Press during the week of June 11-18, 2012.…

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Having researched and written a book on the Holocaust I feel particularly well versed in the history of that ignominious chapter of human history.  I also understand well humankind’s propensity to disavow and rationalize the blight of its offenses and to relegate them to the distant past.  We all yearn to be forgiven for our sins and given a second chance.  In recent years, the United States close ties to Israel have become the fuel for a new kind of virulent…

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Summer may officially be over, but that doesn’t mean hip hop is in hibernation.



Last night, I was blessed with the honor of attending a live music event at The New Way Bar in Ferndale, Michigan.



As I watched my friends Mikey J and the crew of Ray Lo…

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Today's new edition of All Art Friday presents a round-up of art shows in New York City, Alexandria, Va., and Boston, and includes information about a screening at the Corcoran Gallery in D.C. of a documentary about painter Joan Mitchell. Also included is a brief feature about Polish sound postcards.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/01/all-art-friday_21.html

Read my tribute to the wonderful Stephen J Cannell in the new issue of Kings River Life Magazine http://kingsriverlife.com/10/09/the-loss-of-a-tv-legend-stephen-j-cannell/

And check out the latest chapter in my mystery novel DEADLY DISCRIMINATION…

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I’ve been thinking about stories.



There’s a lot of memoir talk flying around right now. Is writing memoir “cheating”? Are memoirs lazy and narcissistic and opportunistic? Are they inherently dishonest due to their reliance on the flawed mechanism of memory? Why do memoirs now seem intentionally deceitful in greater numbers than ever before?



I found Daniel Mendelsohn’s “But Enough About Me” in The New Yorker to be… Continue