A NEW BOOK I've just finished a first draft of a thriller I'm calling Echo, for now. It's set in my neighborhood, East Harlem, and is about a young woman whose housemate goes down to the basement of their building to do his laundry and never comes back upstairs. |
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MIKE ANDERSON AND PETE HOCHSTEIN These two Nebraska inmates spent 23 years on death row and now a total of 34 years in prison for a crime they didn't even remotely commit. Some information here. |
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THE SUNCOOK RIVER I'm working on a documentary about a river in New Hampshire that changed course several years ago, altering a landscape that had been stable for eons. |
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THE NIGHT OF OUR SON'S EXECUTION A play about a divorced couple who meet on the second anniversary of their son's death by lethal injection. Not a comedy. |
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WALT WHITMAN I've had a fascination with Whitman ever since I read the first edition of Leaves of Grass in college. I believe most commentators and scholars miss the deeply spiritual thrust of Whitman's best work. I'm reading David S. Reynolds' Walt Whitman's America now. Very good. |
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SMALL POTATOES A simple and welcome way to help the homeless on cold winter days. Bake a bunch of potatoes, salt and butter them, wrap them in aluminum foil, pack them in a cooler with some plastic forks and head for the streets. |
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JAZZ TROMBONE Several years ago I picked up the trombone after a forty year lay-off. I've found a group of very good musicians who let me hang out with them, play a bit. I really wish I could play like this. |
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CENTRAL PARK EAST ONE A pioneering public elementary school in my East Harlem neigborhood that all three of my sons attended. Embattled for all thirty five years of its existence, it remains a marvelous alternative to the current lock-stepping that passes for education. Information can be found here. |
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