American Noir Writer Raymond Chandler

Both my Rosemary and I in our little dúplex in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver have this fear of becoming addicted to the films…

In our last trip to Buenos Aires a few months ago my friend Fernando Velazco who works at the Teatro Colón told me that he had a friend, a…

It is frustrating not to be a poet or a good writer. This photograph (even though I took it) is beautiful to me. It is full of an erotic…

My grandmother, born in the 19th century, was influenced by the shock of Darwin’s theory. Whenever I said something that demonstrated my…

One of the loveliest books I have ever read is Jerome Charyn’s 1986 Metropolis — New York as Myth, Marketplace, and Magical Land. Charyn’s…

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And you left with the interpreter, noting two straggly kings parked outside the bedroom in simple camp chairs. Your trip to the White House…

Patrick Silver left the baby in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel. The baby, who was forty-four, sat in the upholstered chair, with his knuckles…

My brother drove me to the Brooklyn morgue since I needed to look at dead bodies for my novel [Blue Eyes]. The morgue attendant took me and…

What happens when an a NY City ex-Police Commissioner becomes President of the United States and walks into the White House with a Glock?

Even people who may be against guns as I am might still have a fascination for them. I do. As a Latin man born in Argentina I have been…

My adventure in blogging began January 2006. I saw it and have until recently as an exercise in daily writing.

Even though I was born in Buenos Aires and lived in Mexico for many years and now live in Vancouver, BC my formative years happened in…

Laney’s node-spotter function [from Idoru] is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do. There are bits of the literal…

“She’s dark and lovely and passionate. And very, very kind.”

In photography many wonderful effects have been discovered through unintended mistakes. The important factor to remember is consistency. If…

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On April 8, my Rosemary and I are attending the opening performance of Aaron Bushkowsky’s play Farewell My Lovely which is an adaptation of…

Emma Slipp as Anne Riordan — Makeup — Ghassan Shanti — March 18 2015