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It’s hard to believe that 32 years have passed since Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash was published. Not only is it one of the best books of the 1990s, it’s also one of the definitive novels of the cyberpunk genre. In retrospect, one of the most surprising things about Snow Crash is that it’s not really…
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The good people at Shepherd.com invited me to post a “5 best” list on their site. I had a lot of fun with it. Thanks to Ben Shepherd for making this happen. Here’s my list. Check it out… https://shepherd.com/best-books/literary-novels-masquerading-as-crime-novels
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Back in the 1980s, I took a Humanities class during my freshman year of college. The professor was really good, and she supplemented her lectures by showing up a few episodes of Robert Hughes‘s BBC series Shock of the New, which covered the history of Modern Art as seen through Hughes’s own discerning, sardonic lens. …
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When “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” came out in 1983, I was a junior in high school. Being a bit of a music snob, not to mention a budding wannabe intellectual, I was pretty well versed in the New Wave music of the era, bands like the Talking Heads and Gary Numan and Devo,…
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Okay, it’s a been a few days since the solar eclipse, but I’m still gonna go for the low-hanging fruit; this week’s Friday Night Rock-Out is Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.” When this song came out in 1994, it was the first time I really became aware of Soundgarden as a band (and, more directly, Chris…
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I am very honored to have received such a generous review in the Sun Sentinel, penned by Ms. Oline Cogdill. https://tinyurl.com/5t4zzw92
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I think I am losing my mind. A few years ago, I was reading yet another popular science book—I think it was Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe—when I came across a reference to one of those barroom brain teasers. It goes like this: if your image in a mirror is reversed with regard to right/left…
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Big shout-out and many thanks to Jeff Circle for making one of his famous dossiers on me. I had a blast. He’s one of the smartest and funniest guys I’ve met in a long time. Check it out…
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Many thanks to the good people at CrimeReads for giving me a chance to write about one of my favorite topics, the importance of setting in fiction.
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Had a great talk with Thriller 101 podcaster David Gwyn a few weeks ago. Check it out… https://www.buzzsprout.com/1841589/14673494