Category Archives: writing

Atheism – Kingsley Amis

February 2, 2017 – 5:19 pm

“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: ‘You atheist?’ “Kingsley Amis: ‘Well, yes, but it’s more that I hate him.” ― Kingsley Amis Foto for gratuitous titillation by Ali Formenti

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Reading at Fort Tilden.

October 13, 2016 – 10:52 pm

This Saturday evening I will be reading the first chapter of my punk novel THE END OF MAYBE at the Rockaway Artist Alliance in Fort Tilden. Free Parking. I go on at 8ish. CHAPTER 1 The November sun flashed off a West Village window and the wavering reflection stalked the Christopher Street pier to a […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – Chapter 1

March 21, 2016 – 5:14 pm

CHAPTER 1 The blonde woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, as rats scratched across the basement’s damp concrete floor. Once the horde scurried into their lairs, she lowered her feet relieved by their passing, but rats were the least of her problems. A 40-watt bulb dangling from a rotting […]

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Writer’s Block

June 12, 2015 – 4:28 pm

Writer’s Block has beset writers for time immemorial. For some people the words won’t just come. They remained stuck in the head or the writer suffers a collapse of inspiration. I used to say that I only experienced writer’s block when my bank account dropped below $200, however this most recent lapse arose from several […]

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Oh You Roue

January 26, 2015 – 12:23 pm

‎ “The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.” Lord Henry Wotton explains to a young Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY

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