Escape from California
My family goes back to the Spanish settlers of the 18th Century. In high school I told a foreigner I identified first and foremost with being a Californian. Being an American was secondary. I loved both, but my romance with California became like the ache that comes from your girl sleeping around. California's heading off to the honkytonks one more time is why I lit out. To Read More...
The lesson of a Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish cemetery in Cracow, Poland (Tobias
Gerber/Laif/Redux)
Thanks to the wonders of globalization, I’m writing this in a fairly decrepit salon de thé off the rue de la Liberté in Tangiers, enjoying a coffee and a stale croissant grilled and flattened into a panini. What could be more authentically Moroccan? For some reason, the napkins are emblazoned with “Gracias por su visita.”
To Read More...Malibu Palms Available as an eBook
It is also available today in Kindle (.mobi), ePub, PDF, RTF, LRF (for Sony Reader) and Palm Doc (PDB) formats, and in HTML and JavaScript for online reading.
Now you have a choice: you can buy it as an eBook or as a printed book. Either way, just buy it!
Tracer Joins the 21st Century
In the mid-Ninties I wrote two
novels about a laid-off middle-manager named John
Tracer who decides to persue his childhood dream of
becomig a private eye. His wife is sure that dream is
a mid-life crisis. His new career and their homelife
merge in what one reviewer characterized as “family
cuteness combined with sociopathic slaughter.” The
books were published by Scribner in hardover and were
well received by critics and readers with twisted
senses of humor. They came out in an era before
anyone knew what an eBook was.
Well, technology has finally caught up with the
Tracer Family. They still live in the last century,
but you wouldn’t know it. Their depressed financial
circumstances are more relevant today, and crime is
just as bad. But they have morphed from the printed
page to bits and bites, having been re-released in
eBook form. In the next few months
Tracer
Inc. and Neighborhood Watch
will both be available
at Amazon.com, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Sony
Reader Store and Kobo (formerly Shortcovers).
Today they may be purchased in Kindle (.mobi), ePub,
PDF, RTF, LRF (for Sony Reader) and Palm Doc (PDB)
formats, and in HTML and JavaScript for online
reading.
Click on a book cover above to get the eBook version
of your choice. I recommend you start with the first
one and move on to the second, which starts one day
after the first one ends.
This and That
Blogs start on the home page with brief previews so that you don’t have to slog through something that doesn’t interest you although why anyone would want to do that is incomprehensible. The home page, to use a term from when I was spinning vinyl on the radio, also links to “Double A blasts from the past”—What’s So Bad about Wrath?, The Hun Revisited and I Explain God, Part 1. Just for me there’s a Love-Me-Because-I’m-Great bio page. A contact page follows. (Keep the hate mail coming, folks.) Finally, there are excerpts from my body of work, my corpus, my oeuvre...my stuff, if you will...whose presumption should amuse you. To Read More...