Thinking about Ray Bradbury and my latest Maui novel

Perhaps because I'm working on a new novel (the third in my "Charley Ridgway" series of trashy noir set on Maui), I've been reading a lot more old interviews in The Paris Review than I used to. Considering that I never before read The Paris Review until I installed Flipboard on my iPad, even just the few of … Continue reading Thinking about Ray Bradbury and my latest Maui novel

Novels are for fools

Seriously, I think I'm wasting my time writing a novel. The fame and fortune these days is in fake memoirs. Case in point: today's New York Times story on Herman Rosenblat, an actual Holocaust survivor who's not-so-forthcoming memoir Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived isn't so true at all. … Continue reading Novels are for fools