Happy Holidays!

Other Stuff

And several goodbyes:

OUT WITH THE OLD:

Goodbye to Tales of the Storage Space, the saga of a Brooklyn building, down on its luck, which was once so much more. (I posted the final episode, Part 150, last week.)

Goodbye to my weekly posts, which I’ve been doing since December 2015. I’ll be posting on the first of every month from now on (though it just so happens that the first of next month is exactly one week from today).

Goodbye even to the current look of this website, which will also change dramatically in the new year to better emphasize my books and, in future, my photography.

Goodbye to the the 21st century’s teen years. It was a wild ride! Smartphones. Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Tornadoes. Trump…

IN WITH THE NEW:

Hello to my-first-of-the-month posts on a variety of subjects from flash fiction (complete in a single post) to book and film reviews to random observations about life.

Hello to my upcoming new website design. (After a few days of downtime to facilitate the change.) Lively. Entertaining. Encourages you to buy my books! (Though I’m still giving away free ebooks and even audiobooks, with no strings attached.)

Hello, a bit later, to my photography, featuring such exotic locales as Istanbul, Egypt, Cambodia, Morocco, and the Kingdom of Tonga.

Hello, a mere week from now, to the year 2020. May its name be an accurate description of our vision as we grapple with its many challenges.

Must Read

You May Also Like

MY BOOKS

Tumbleweed

For those of you curious about where I got the inspiration for my most recent book, Rococo, here’s the flash fiction from whence it came…on one of the many days in which I found myself thoroughly disgusted by self-help books. Toeing an anti-depressant wrapper, she loitered at the western edge…
Read More
Guest Posts

Wade Was Withdrawn

Democratic Dallas Prosecutor Henry Wade’s detachment may have made Jane Roe’s victory possible, but his fellow Democrats’ detachment has made overturning Roe v. Wade possible.  My friend Ina contributes some food for thought: Guest Post by Ina Bransome Women of means (white feminists and white women of means) will always…
Read More
Guest Posts

Follow the Flavor

Guest Post by Sondra Fink I love food.  I love that vegetables need vinegar or lemon to break down their cell walls so your body can absorb their nutrients.  They need whole fats too – your vegetable’s nutrients are fat-soluble.  Fats carry those nutrients to your cells so your body…
Read More
Barnett Berger

Barnett Berger: A Rare Soul

In a community of Brooklyn writers, it is perhaps fitting that Barnett Berger was first met on a bus route, the No. 71, which no longer exists.  He was carrying an old book that likely shares the same fate. He explained that he spoke slowly because he’d suffered a stroke. …
Read More
Guest Posts

Pubescent Putin

My brother Maury…a talented poet and writer whose books are available here and whose far-more-tasteful-than-mine website is maurybarr.com…has said what, it could be argued, no woman could get away with saying without censure: Headline: Antisatellite Nuclear Weapon Oh, your smile! It’s Mr. Crafty! What are you doing? Put your pecker…
Read More
Menu