Sunday’s issue of the NY Times includes an article by Nicholas Noyes which visits (in a sense) the subject of this post. It’s named How to use a Novel as a Guidepost (1/15/17). He begins by quoting from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist: “It was nearly eleven o’clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington. […]
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Up From Adams Street –Excerpt–Looping at Butterfield
“C’mon out to Butterfield with me. You’ll like it,” Johnny says. After school, we amble down to 47th Street at the north end of town and stand on the corner with our thumbs out. Can’t predict who’ll stop for us, so we thumb everyone. Butterfield is four miles out of Westmont–a big green world , […]
Memoir Shorts – Mustangs
Church was fun, especially the parts that weren’t churchy. I got my first sports uniform when I joined the Westmont Methodist basketball team. We all agreed that our color was red which meant we all had to buy red shorts. The rest of the outfit, well…varied by man. My uniform was an undershirt, and a […]
Up From Adams Street Excerpt—Galloping Ghost
It was the very first Saturday after joining the squad. We loaded into the school bus taking us over to Wheaton, the first game on our three game schedule, to play on the historic Red Grange Field in practice uniforms. No cheerleaders, no band, no announcer, no spectators except for us on the team who […]
Up From Adams Street— Excerpt—Hopping a Freight
The escapade had a clear connection to Dad. He’d often regaled us with tales of eluding the Santa Fe railroad dicks prowling freights looking for freeloading hobos. What was James’s motivation for coming along? I didn’t think about it. I didn’t think about a lot of things. What were the dimensions of this fandango? I […]
A Bridge to Treachery –Excerpt–The Geography of a Novel
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A NOVEL The setting of my thriller A Bridge to Treachery is deeply rooted in the geography of the Hudson River Valley stretching from Newburg, New York, a town on the Hudson River north of West Point all the way south to Manhattan. I used actual locations because this fuels the […]
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Fire up your earplugs and listen as Lou and his coed accomplice Sydney clamber over the rocks and snags of the forest floor, scrambling to elude forces moving to cut off their escape from the disaster on Bear Mountain Bridge.
The Stranger in the Woods: The Last True Hermit
In The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel has written an endlessly interesting book about hermit Christopher Knight who lived alone in the woods west of Waterville, Maine for twenty-seven years. It would be extraordinary for anyone to live alone anywhere for that long, but Christopher lived his self imposed solitary confinement outdoors. He ate […]
Sydney Interview
Character Questionnaire Sidney Winkler Ingenue in Thriller A Bridge to Treachery • What do you consider your greatest achievement? Easy. The Nobel Peace Prize. Get serious. I’m a semi-successful habit kicking college dropout. I need to get a job in the worst way. Any ideas for me? My greatest achievement: rolling out of […]