I am a writer and an editor. For life-blood money, I am a medical manuscript editor, editing articles for medical journals, and for pleasure and less money, I am also an editor of other writers' stories. I founded and managed an online literary journal about memoir, called Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, which is no longer publishing; I previously edited the print journal, Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir. I lived in NYC for many years, and on the Bowery from 1978 to 1991. Now I live in Maine.
Sattley, California. Winter solstice 2016. We’re at my Aunt-in-law’s house, in the High Sierras, in the Egyptian room. Sphinxes, golden fabrics, a Nefertiti head. The rest of the house is faux Victorian, a modest ranch overstuffed with Costco products and kitsch. My wife, my toddler daughter, and I are curled up under an electric blanket […]
Lessons from Rikers Island That first morning, I was stopped by the correction officers just before the bridge that leads to the 413-acre, liver-shaped island in the middle of the East River between Queens and the Bronx. I was struck by how bored the COs acted. It was as if they were telling me there […]
I used to like Keith Haring’s stuff When you’d see It on the subway You’d look out The window as The train pulled In and see A space ship With a beam Of light on a Baby or A dog or Something And you’d smile Or see the ones with the Big muscle guy With […]
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