It’s the Good Life

“Romance… it gives a man something to do while he’s waiting for the only thing he really wants.” A performer is just that. We earn our money by presenting whatever it is we have learned to do. Sometimes it is as simple as memorizing lines, and at other times it is the result of […]

Your One Night Stand on the Front Page

Imagining Hot Spring Honeymoon Where Love Has Come to Play “Emptiness does not differ from form. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness,” This ambiguous quote comes from Buddhism’s great teachings contained in The Heart Sutra. Caught in this paradoxical world of here and now, the fiction writer slashes through all the chaos that […]

What not to do in Ketchum

Sweetest Little Piece of Nowhere You Have Ever Seen is Right Here Ketchum until tomorrow and then more south into the Great Basin. Yesterday drove through a mere hint of a couple of towns. Most of them hardly are still there. I noticed in one store I could get a rifle scope from […]

Lord of the Styles

This moment’s style and fashion is so obvious. House of Cards has it, Veep deploys it, and Silicon Valley is based upon it. Lenny Bruce skewered the sacred by roasting it atop the fires of the profane hypocrisy’s he alone seemed capable of speaking about. And for each act taking one tack there […]

Book Expo America

I am here in New York for the Expo. I have noted that Hachette Book Group has crossed swords with Amazon. A fight has broken out and it seems Amazon is putting a hold on Hachette’s Books because a royalty dispute. Nasty bit of business this industry is involved in. Seems JK Rowling’s new title […]

Writing Comedy…

It is all in the words… After working on three novels, some 340,000 words, work that spans seven years, I’m trying to distill the essence into one hour. Someone has to do it. I spend seven years working on three novels and a reader will be done with all three in 30 hours, more or […]

Let that Sink In

Two Times as Much Fun We do not come into this world. We come out of the world like a leaf from a tree. I like that. We are not part of the world we are of this world. We belong. Writing long fiction is based upon everything that might be part of what […]

In the Love shack

Where Lover’s Go… Everybody has had their eyes wide open. I knew since I was drifting the high plains town to town that we were a country in flux. That was in the ‘70’s when drifting from show to show was what a young up and coming juggling act did. I’ve seen the belly […]

Princeton’s Epitaph to Democracy

“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business
interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens
and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Trouble in Nevada

Hot Spring Honeymoon Just Enough Trouble to Call it Fun Life imitates art. The recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and Clive Bundy is a more radicalized version of the politics I hinted at in Hot Spring Honeymoon. The free grazer movement depends upon more magical thinking than my character Garrett Harwood. My […]