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I write, for a living, books

[Come see me tomorrow, all day, at the Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival!]

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Sheldon Moldoff!

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Eventuate, O thou seven! For mine infant has dearth of a pair of new sandals.
•Franklin P. Adams, Overset (1922).

The only thing the game of dice lacks to make it a kingdom is a throne!
•Sûdraka, The Little Clay Cart (c. 400).

I am sure that no other method of mind-training can be really as effective as that of card playing and I think that, on these grounds, it should be included in the curriculum of every school.
•P. Hal Sims, Pinochle Pointers (1935).

Drunks fear the police,
but the police are drunk...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(Tonight I’ll be at the Rocktober Bloodbath, signing & hawking! Worth a trip to Milford, CT! Flier at the bottom!)

I write, for a living, books

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Al Milgrom!

Tonight!

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(Upcoming appearances: Oct. 25, 8 pm, Rocktober Bloodbath, Milford CT | Nov. 2, 10 am+, Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival, Norwalk, CT. | Nov. 17, 2 pm, Sunday Afternoon Talk, Stratford CT)

Suitable for children, this series!

If you are a teen-ager, I feel sorry for you,
•Oral Roberts, The Teen-Age Rebel: Oral Roberts Speaks to Youth (1968).

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedO golden time, O life inspired But for delight and pleasure,When youth...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

I write, for a living, books

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Steve Muffatti!

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Try a book, old boy!

Deep in the heart of old gray rocks we dwell,
We who were old a thousand years ago;
And we have played about the paths of man,
And in the twilight filled his heart with dreams.
•Elia M. Peattie, Edda and the Oak (1911).

A friend of mine being asked why his Grace of P. was likened to an old woman? replied, “he supposed it was because he was past bearing.”
•Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

The sole disgrace is to grow old, and we are shamed only by wrinkles.
•Pierre Lo...

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Dig these crazy books!

[Tomorrow, Oct. 12, 1 pm, at Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT, will be me!]

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Bill Everett!

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(Upcoming appearances: Oct. 12, 1 pm, Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT | Oct. 25, 8 pm, Rocktober Bloodbath, Milford CT | Nov 2, 10 am, Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival, Norwalk, CT.)

Remember when everyone was talking

about this book?

Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
•H.G. Wells, Mr. Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History” (1926).

I stand within Time’s crumbling walls and weave at Eternity’s looms the Circle-that-looks-lik...

Movie Explainer: What is Pulp Fiction about?

(The basic idea for this essay was spelled out to me decades ago by a guy I knew slightly named John Cho. Tip of the hat to him for that! If I have (as I hope I have) expanded on his basic idea, the additions are my responsibility alone. Hope you’re doing well, ungoogleable John, wherever you are!)

Come see me this Saturday!

In Guilford, CT!

Indeed it’s said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes, it punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids.
•Vikram Seth, Golden Gate (1986).

In t...

Movie Explainer: What is Pulp Fiction about

(The basic idea for this essay was spelled out to me decades ago by a guy I knew slightly named John Cho. Tip of the hat to him for that! If I have (as I hope I have) expanded on his basic idea, the additions are my responsibility alone. Hope you’re doing well, ungoogleable John, wherever you are!)

Come see me this Saturday!

In Guilford, CT!

Indeed it’s said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes, it punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids.
•Vikram Seth, Golden Gate (1986).

In t...