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Correcting my limitless lack of knowledge, one post at a time.
Blog Roll
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Forgotten Book - Dead Heat - *Dead Heat*, first published in 1986, is a lively example of Martin Russell's skill as a crime writer. I've always liked his work and I wrote about him ...
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FFB: NOTHING IN HER WAY, Charles Williams - Book Review: Charles Williams, Nothing in Her Way (1953)(From Noirboiled Notes 2009) Charles Williams' *Nothing in Her Way* is a novel of the con game-...
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On Listening - Today the church remembers a Deacon of the faithful, Alcuin, Abbot of Tours. Alcuin was a companion of Charlemagne, and founded organized learning in Franc...2 days ago
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Pay Attention: Simplifying the Writing - Life can often be difficult, but writing doesn’t have to be. Take for instance the recent news that my wife Cathy has breast cancer. We’re in the early s...4 days ago
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The guitar player - In the end I had to look up the solo instrument from Dvořák’s From the New World, because for the life of me I couldn’t remember that it’s a cor anglais. (...1 week ago
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"Atmospheric, character-centric historical mystery" - review of THE BURNING GROUNDS - *THE BURNING GROUNDS by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker, 2025)* *Reviewed by Craig Sisterson* *In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid t...
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To Tell the Truth Despite Everything - 14ymedio, Havana, Generation Y, Yoani Sánchez, May 3, 2026 — Every May 3rd carries a different weight when you practice journalism in a country where pres...2 weeks ago
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John Steinbeck and Me - I’ve been wanting to dip my toe back into the blog pool for a while now, but blogging is much like exercising: the longer you go without doing it, the ha...3 weeks ago
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Scott Klavan: Trial & Error - TRIAL & ERROR: A joint review of *Giant* and *The Fear of 13* *Giant* By Mark Rosenblatt Directed by Nicholas Hytner Broadway, Music Box Theater April...3 weeks ago
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I'm Still Alive — Take Two - I’m still alive — and not yet on Substack. The previous post announcing my non-expiration was true, but I did not return to full volume. No one wants ful...
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It’s Good to Talk: Why Dialogue is Fundamental - The reasons why humans developed complex speech are still contested, but as a writer it doesn’t really matter if it’s due to a uniquely shaped hyoid bone,...
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"So This is Dyoublong?" Living Inside the World of the Wake, Part 3 - Continuing my American-spectator-in-Ireland, wandering psychogeographical exploration of *Finnegans Wake* and relevant sites, jumping around the map of Dub...2 months ago
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Return of the Counterforce - Back in April, a screaming came across the sky, the announcement of a new Thomas Pynchon novel, to be published in October, entitled *Shadow Ticket*. Th...
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I Swam With America! - On the 4th of July, the usual 6:30 a.m. time for Early Bird Lap Swim was pushed back to 9:00 a.m. for a general holiday celebration for the community. I ...
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The More Things Change - Back in July of 2009, Do Some Damage launched with seven authors on Blogspot.com. Now, sixteen years later, the site is moving to a Substack newsletter. ...
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Tom Maderos at "Escape Into Life" - This blog hasn't seen any activity of late, but it's still here and I have a couple of reasons to revive it, although I don't expect there will be many ...10 months ago
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Worldbuilding: How to Create a Believable World for Your Fiction Characters - When you're writing fiction, worldbuilding is vital to the success of your story. Your characters need a believable place to work and play!11 months ago
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The Last Hurrah - ‘Relax will you. It’s just an abandoned warehouse.’ ‘Well, it’s giving me the creeps.’ ‘We’ll just glance it over and skedaddle. Tomorrow you’ll be a fre...3 years ago
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Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall - Justice Thurgood Marshall’s widow, Cecilia Marshall, died this Tuesday. After her husband’s death in 1991, she continued to occasionally appear at the Co...3 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!3 years ago
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Book Review 2022-001 - Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan - Book Review 2022-001 Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan 309 pages (the galley), 2022 via Henry Holt (this copy was an ARC sent to me by Henry Holt) This deb...4 years ago
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Eight Basics of Successful Nonprofit Leadership - Leading a nonprofit is, in many ways, like leading any kind of business. Some of these I learned growing up watching my father run his small business. For ...4 years ago
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#104 / The Shared American Story - Ken Burns (pictured above) is an American filmmaker who is known for using archival footage and photographs in documentary films about American history....5 years ago
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Off with their heads! Why are Lewis Carroll misquotes so common online? - Following a recent similar Royal Mint slip-up, the Westminster Collection’s new 50p coins have sent Carroll experts down an internet rabbit hole to sourc...5 years ago
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Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
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Upcoming Events - Lit Crawl Belfast: As part of the Belfast Book Festival, come to No Alibis see me and Rosemary Jenkinson read from works by our favourite crime authors,...
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Shot at the Edgars - Peter Lovesey, named an MWA Grand Master at the 2018 Edgar Awards. Photo by Peter Rozovsky for Detectives Beyond Borders. © Peter Rozovsky 2018
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Six Days in Phoenix - On day one, Thursday, we marched to the Capitol, 75,000 strong. The legislature basically flipped us off, and adjourned until Monday. On day two we h...
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SCHEHERAZADE - [image: Image result for scheherazade] On Friday night the Prom was Scheherazade, live from the Albert Hall. I have listened to it three times since th...8 years ago
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What I Learned at the California Crime Writers Conference - It’s Monday morning in Culver City on a gorgeous Southern California day. From my hotel room window, I can see reflected in the mirrored building across ...
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New Year’s Discount - Happy New Year to all my readers! This year begins with two discounts for you: North Sea Cottage (the first mystery about Tora) is available for $ 0.99 onl...9 years ago
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A Barrel of Salt: Salzburg, Austria - Last summer I started this post talking about a saying my father handed down to me. “You can’t know a man until you’ve eaten a barrel of salt with him.” T...9 years ago
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Guiding a First Generation to College - Students who are new to America or lack college-educated parents often don’t know their options.10 years ago
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Surprise invasion of Japanese punk - A strange bit of synchronicity occurred in my life this week, courtesy of Netflix. I have a two disk at a time plan with them. (Yes, that's right, I stil...
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Flanless in the kitchen, six p.m. - My walking buddy complains her flannel pajamas are no longer warm, cheery, or comforting on these very long nights of early winter.. The thrill is gone, a...
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Grazie & Arrivederci! - So that's the end of the Europa Challenge! Thanks to everyone for a great five years of reading and reviewing! I'll leave the blog up so folks can find you...10 years ago
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Meeting Points - Meeting points, in water, sky or paint; the places where blue turns red & runs into the sea; edge of a face that bends into shadow; shape that changes sh...
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Dahlia Lithwick on the mentally ill in jail - I'm reviving this somewhat moribund blog to post a link to an article by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on a mentally ill man who died after four months in jail a...10 years ago
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Review of Reckless Lovely in the Los Angeles Review - A hearty shout-out to Maggie Trapp for her generous review of *Reckless Lovely*, which just went live at The Los Angeles Review blog.
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I’m Not Here Anymore, But Maybe You’ll Follow Me to Somewhere New? - Thank you, everyone, for following me on 500 Words on Words! As you might have noticed, I haven’t been exactly cranking out the new posts here for quite so...11 years ago
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New Website! New Blog! 2 New Programs! - Striving always toward full integration of the logical - linear and analytical with the intuitive - creative and imaginative, I've united those parts in a ...11 years ago
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Sayulita - It's not October anymore. Something a bit more timely for the top o' the blog, okay? My most amazing friend, Raquel, swept me out of my daily routine ...
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It Lives! - It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog. Some things have changed over the last year, I changed jobs last October, after thirteen years ...
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT - UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT * AT THE BIJOU * ? Yes, that's right. From our newly refurbished red velvet reader seats . . . to showcasing AUTH...
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The Final Post: Understanding and Forgiveness for All - I began this blog a year ago with the aim of resolving the cognitive dissonance between my love of Wagner’s music with his reputation as a monster. I start...
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William Kentridge at Volte gallery - The South African artist William Kentridge is showing at Volte gallery in Colaba. Anybody in Bombay between now and March 20 should definitely put the ex...
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Worlds Collide Under Purple Skies - It's amazing to me how often my Japanese world collides with my American world. Two years ago, I happened to be on vacation in *New Orleans*. I was sitti...
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Assistant Editor On Board! - TFFO writer Tom Pitts is the new TFFO editorial assistant at Out of the Gutter Online! Click here to welcome him to the operation!
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Gay Male Poetry Post Identity Politics, Part Five - I am now posting the last of the presentations from my AWP panel on gay male poetry post politics. Like Aaron Smith, Brian Teare questions the idea and the...18 years ago
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ReplyDelete"You've lifted me up, each and every step of the way." Just after 5:00
(I will say that if you check the Engish captions on this thing, they are quite bizarre. Can't tell if they're done by a detractor or just someone incompetent in the English language.)