Now What, Champ?

Standing tall Saturday in the fruit section of Wegman’s in Wilkes-Barre Township, among the orange oranges, green limes and red delicious apples, I said to manager/wife/Stephanie, “Bet TC Boyle doesn’t get all this attention when he goes food shopping.” Boyle, maybe America’s best contemporary novelist, lives in a pampered wealthy enclave in Santa Barbara County […]

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A Heavy Metal Horror Story

Sweet Mary Jane understood. In my novel, Wally Wilson’s runaway hippie mother made the holy music pilgrimage to the West Coast, digging all the 60s psychedelic bands whose music she shared with her voodoo child baby when they settled down in Santa Barbara. As a result, Wally knew all the tunes that set the stage […]

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