How’s your tablescape? Tim McKeough of the New York Times has some advice, and a video: You see them on Instagram and in design magazines: those perfectly composed coffee tables that tie a living room together and hint at the fabulous taste of the homeowners. How do those tablescapes come together? How does someone decide…
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Tongue of Newt!
Here is my new novel, in all its glory, glowing with a cover designed by noted mid-Pennsylvanian photographer Ben Cohen (although Ben did not take the cover shot), and telling the story of Jerry Callahan, a small-town Ohio boy out to make it big in the hard-hearted District of Columbia, circa 2008. Jerry makes a…
New Book!
I have a new book out (obviously). James Thurber A Reader’s Guide consists of a long (30,000+ words) essay treating Thurber’s work in some detail, plus a handful of short, Thurber-related pieces discussing Thurber compatriots Harold Ross, E. B. White, and Wolcott Gibbs, and/or dithering over words. It’s available, along with my other books, via Amazon as…
Brief Lives
I have a new book out, Brief Lives, available here, both as a ebook and a print on demand paperback. Brief Lives is a collection of 32 short stories, many of them quite short, only a few pages, but some of them run on for a dozen or more. An “Afterwords” includes (usually) brief descriptions…