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Category Archives: fiction
Enough about Naipaul the man — read his books
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. — V.S. Naipaul, A Bend In the River (1979) Pardon me for breathing! And make no mistake — the … Continue reading
Posted in arts, fiction, globalization, history, mainstream media, terrorism
Tagged A Bend In the River, Guerrillas, Nobel Prize, The world is what it is, Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul
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OK, you’re in love, but can you sell my novel?
An editor friend just called to apologize, he hasn’t had time to read my new manuscript because he’s having his roof replaced and can’t hear himself think. I said hey, no hurry, it will still be there when you find … Continue reading
Posted in arts, fiction, humor, life in the big city, mainstream media
Tagged finding an agent, literary agents, literary fiction, Queer, Romance, unsolicited query letter, YA, Young Adult
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‘Disinvited’ Eagles weren’t going anyway
Swamp Rabbit was getting on my case for not being a football fan. I’m a fan of the players,” I said. “It’s the NFL I hate — the overpaid commissioner and the spoiled rotten billionaires who own the teams. I … Continue reading
Philip Roth’s many phases
Time flies faster as you grow older. One day you wake up and read Tom Wolfe is dead. Blink a few times and there goes Philip Roth, too. I was drawn to Roth’s fiction indirectly, around the time he was … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe’s works will live on! Really!!!
After hearing Tom Wolfe had died, I thought of that scene in The Bonfire of the Vanities where master of the universe Sherman McCoy, under arrest, is paraded past reporters with Styrofoam peanuts clinging to his expensive suit. …They were … Continue reading
A fictionalized Trump? Too cliche
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, humor, liar, mainstream media
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Donald Trump, fake news, swamp rabbit, theater of the absurd, Ubu Roi
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I do not recall, y’all
My hard drive died last week, just like that, as if my laptop had had a heart attack. It’s the ideal way to go if you’re old — boom, lights out, that wasn’t so bad, was it? Except that the … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, liar, mainstream media
Tagged George Papadopoulos, I do not recall, Jeff Sessions, Ku Klux Klan, perjuror
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