Found dialogue

by | Jun 6, 2010 | Uncategorized

I love summer (or, ok, spring) in the city. Everyone lives outdoors, from the shirtless man in mardi gras beads to the couples returning from dinner out. And as we did the same, we encountered these random bits of conversation:2.” … I don’ t think...

Me on “Agents of Treachery”

by | Jun 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

I got to review the new spy-fiction anthology “Agents of Treachery” in today’s Boston Globe:”What is the proper setting for an international thriller in these global times? Is it World War II, the last unequivocally just war, or the fight...

Reading aloud

by | May 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

Oh, isn’t this COOL! Just heard that Alan Vogel, host of “Lit 103,” on WXOJ in Northampton, Mass., will be reading my story “Dumb Beasts” over the air later this month or early next month. The show, which bills itself as “Fiction...

Denise Mina’s new “Still Midnight”

by | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

Denise Mina seems to be taking a gentler tone with her characters in her new book, “Still Midnight.” Click to read my review in the Boston Globe.”It may be “Still Midnight’’ in Glasgow, as the title of Denise Mina’s latest crime novel suggests, but...