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So the other day I saw this play, Protest, by Václav Havel. You remember Havel: he was the founding President of the Czech Republic, and before that the first President of a free Czechoslovakia. But before that he was a playwright, and also a prison inmate. The two vocations were related. I saw it in … Continue reading Reasons to Not Write →

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I do not normally read, or review, children’s books because I am not a child, I have no children, and I principally appreciate children as metaphors or plot devices. My loss, I know, but there you have it. However, recently a story, written for children, came to my attention which so astutely captured the function … Continue reading Smiling Through Bad Weather →

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The journalist April Ryan has written a book about African-American mothers, and the effect that they have on their communities and their children. I am a sixty-five year-old man with no children, and I am as white as Dick Cheney. Thus I am, or should be, the book’s target market. Ryan is not a theorist, … Continue reading White House Journalist’s New Book, “At Mama’s Knee” →

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If you’re a writer, your imagination is fixed on certain markers. Having an agent is a marker. If you have an agent, then you have someone who, from a purely business standpoint, believes in your work. And if a real agent, for business reasons, believes in your work, it stands to reason that you must … Continue reading BAM! Selling Capital City, One Book at a Time →

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So in Splinterlands, the very unusual novel by John Feffer,  the world has fallen to tribalism. We’re not talking about Brexit or the dissolution of Yugoslavia; we’re talking about the Walloons of South Brussels at war with the Flemish of North Brussels and the Independent Nation of Vermont and New Hampshire. It is the war … Continue reading It Could Get Worse →

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For those of us who toil for the spotlight — on behalf (like me) of a book, or a movie, or a political point of view — television is not exactly a seller’s market, but it is more of a seller’s market than it was, say, in 1951, when there were only two nationwide networks.  … Continue reading Capital City on TV — Watch It Now →

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Lee Hurwitz and I were honored to be interviewed about Capital City by none other than Deborah Kalb, journalist, author of children’s books and co-author, with her father, legendary journalist Marvin Kalb, of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama. She has a blog dedicated to writers and had some good questions for … Continue reading Deborah Kalb asks about Capital City →

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Here’s what you believe, if you’re like me: the day you become a published author — Published! Author! by a real Publishing House! — your life is transformed. You are no longer an ordinary schmoe, covering the town council meeting in Hamden or Hampton or wherever, or pulling over guys with busted taillights, or sweating … Continue reading The Day After I Became a Published Author →

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There once was a Mayor of a great American City who was so feral, so clever and devious and charismatic, that he could commit crimes in plain sight — even go to jail — without losing his electoral mojo. He succeeded because he managed to convince his constituency, who were of the same ethnic identity … Continue reading Trouble in the Nation’s Capital City. Enjoy! →

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January 20, 2017 — President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office as the nation’s forty-fifth president. In his inaugural address, he reiterates his pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico and promises that Mexico will pay for it. He also announces his intention to sign two Executive Orders — … Continue reading President Trump’s First Year in Office →

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