Of all the places to hold the coveted title of ‘best third places,’ San Francisco has to be at the top of the heap. While London has its p...

Writing my latest novel ‘Playground for the Devil’ began, like all the rest, as an exercise in blindly following my instincts and believin...

It was a simple idea last spring; to write a new novel (my twelfth) in lieu of workshopping my three new plays. Perhaps, I thought, by thi...

Henry Miller, the avant-garde, bohemian writer and activist said it best: “If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you h...