August 2, 2016
Ceremonies will be ready for purchase in perhaps a month, that is, around September 2….. I’m waiting for the proof copy and then must order a consignment. Ceremonies will sell for $15. A Paypal button has been set up on…
August 1, 2016
Yesterday I sent Ceremonies to Lulu, the print-on-demand publisher. I had been working on the book since I was a young man. So it was a surrealistic moment…. A proof of Ceremonies will be sent to me in about 10…
July 27, 2016
I have been working all my waking hours on Ceremonies. I think it’s done….. Am trying to gather up my courage to submit it to my publisher now.
July 17, 2016
In the spring of 2002, still in New York City, I sat in front of my computer. I tapped the send button to post an excerpt of Ceremonies to a literary erotica website. I had had some pieces published recently…
July 16, 2016
In the fall of 1995 I crouched on a bench in Central Park. It was a crisp, blue sky day. I had been writing another novel about the Vietnam War resistance in previous years. But I had begun fiddling with…
July 4, 2016
TERRI HALL Terri Hall (1953-1995) was an actress of the Golden Age of Erotic Films. She had been trained as a dancer and performed with the Harkness Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and the American Ballet Theater. Interested in acting,…
July 2, 2016
I boarded the N train at the 31st Street station in Astoria. It was a gorgeous fall day in New York City in the fall of 1994. I had moved to the city a few months before. I watched the…
June 20, 2016
In the summer of 1992 I walked out of the Kinko’s in Columbia, South Carolina, with a box full of books. The box contained the first book I had ever published. It was, oddly, a book on religious art. Yet…
June 4, 2016
TURIN EROTIC PAPYRUS The Turin Erotic Papyrus is a collection of sexual illustrations. The artist is unknown. It was created in Deir el-Medina, a village near Thebes in Egypt, about 1150 BC, during the reign of Pharoah Rameses the…
May 29, 2016
I was still in Columbia in the spring of 1992. Sitting on my porch, I read a story by Mark Twain. In it the greatest writer who had ever existed was never published, and his scripts were locked away in…