Sweetness and Blood

The Pop Matters Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 list is up and running and I selected Michael Scott Moore’s Sweetness and Blood as my entry. You can read my mini-review here and watch the trailer for Mike’s terrific book below.

Soon Becomes Now

For the last two months I have been assiduously scribbling notes in a black basic journal for my new novel, intended for mainstream publishers, not the self-publication route. At the moment I write this, my sciatica is throbbing and an infected tooth is announcing its sinister intent so I have taken an extra prescription painkiller [...]

2010: Year in Review

This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]

“The game is afoot, Watson …”

I’m very pleased that the contentious New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun is finally complete and out of the way – at least the substantive bulk of it; there has been talk of a fourth and final segment when we are ready to pull up stakes and leave Las Vegas for Los Angeles but I [...]

Early Reaction to “Homelessness and the Indignity of Hurtful Speech”

For the record, I would like to mention that the title of the third installment of my New Homeless series was provided by my editor, Tom Gorman, and was never even run by me — not that it’s a bad title but it’s not mine. I was very happy to note this evening that the [...]