CUBA: IMAGINING VARADERO

As mentioned in my last post, Varadero features heavily in my first novel The Phoenix Lottery — especially the duPont mansion. As an experiment, I’m posting the first chapter here. For photos of the setting you’re reading about, check my last post....

BOOK LOVERS BALL

Okay, so this post is way late. But anyway, every year the Toronto Public Library has a swanky do to raise money. People and companies spend a fair chunk of change to go to a ballroom in the Royal York Hotel, see a fashion show based on popular novels, and eat...

BORDERLINE: RAVES AND MEOWS!

Okay, I’ve been very good about writing about fun travel adventures. But my new book BORDERLINE comes out March 9, so please forgive the forthcoming writer’s ego. (Hey, it’s my birthday today, too, so gimme a break, eh? I am too damn old for...

MY NEW BOOK: BORDERLINE

Well… Last post I asked what people would like to read about — and I got emails and comments at livejournal and elsewhere that a number of you want to hear about my new book — BORDERLINE. So okay. For the next week that’s what you’ll get,...

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…” Mom left Dad when I was a baby and we went to live on my...