And the War Came, my new book, is a reality, or at least an e-reality, since at this point, it can be obtained only in digital form. Nonetheless, it is here, and real, and starting to get attention. I’m almost as pleased with the above video as I am with the book. Many, many, many …
I ventured into the wilds of lower Hastings (or perhaps it was uper Yonkers) to attend the latest version of Spoken Interludes, the series of readings organized and hosted by my friend, the novelist DeLaune Michel. Last night’s readers were Jennifer Coady Epstein, author of the novel The Painter from Shanghai (almost all the guests …
Under threatening skies in a cozy and picturesque former Hudson River train station, twenty or so lovers of literature (or something) came to see the novelist DeLaune Michel and myself perform in a reading sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center. The Center’s director, Jerri Lynn Fields, opened the evening with a discussion of the …