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What am I doing here?
April 13, 2026
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Not just the facts, man
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
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Tales from the Vienna Working Class
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Murder, He Wrote
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Artificial Stupidity
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With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
July 4, 2025
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What She Did and Didn’t Do
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All the News that’s Fit to Stream
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Putting Immigrants on Ice
May 12, 2025
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Coming Together but still Apart
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What Happened Next in America
March 30, 2025
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As Goes Columbia, So Goes the Nation
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Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian refugee and pro-Palestinian […]
The Plan to Steal America
March 4, 2025
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Resist While You Still Can
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Fire Sale
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December 11, 2024
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Teach What You Know, Learn What You Don’t
November 17, 2024
Say you want to start a second career as a teacher. […]
There Goes the Neighborhood
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A Bumpy Ride on the Orient Express
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Book Review Last Train to Istanbul Ayşe Kulin John W. […]
Pit Bulls and Barbecue Pits (newsletter)
July 22, 2024
As I wrote this on Sunday, Joe Biden pulled out, […]
Lost and Found Memories
June 30, 2024
The Father She Went to Find: A novel by Carter Wilson […]
On Persistence of Memory (newsletter)
June 28, 2024
This month I’ve turned to memoir to recount […]
Love and Revolution in Iran
June 2, 2024
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky, by Nadine Bjursten (book […]
On Losing Our Senses
May 27, 2024
This month’s offering is on the longish side, so my […]
Guest Post: How to Write About Palestine
April 24, 2024
When I published “What Does ‘I support […]
Books Don’t Sell Themselves
March 24, 2024
The Writing Was the Fun Part This is the first Perfidy […]
What me worry?
February 24, 2024
Dear Readers, I had hoped to send this letter out from […]
Word Games
January 19, 2024
Attention Readers Expect a change in […]
A Slave to the Machine (newsletter)
December 13, 2023
[Nothing to say about Gaza this time around, to your […]
On Cats, Catastrophe, and Caregivers
November 16, 2023
I feel guilty for allowing a pet to die, but not as […]
What Does “I Support Israel” mean?
October 17, 2023
A word about endangered books: There’s been a […]
Why Unions Matter
September 17, 2023
Let’s talk about what’s behind rising […]
Nothing Special, just Life as We Know It
August 18, 2023
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The Manichean Candidate (Newsletter)
July 26, 2023
Named after a third-century Persian prophet named […]
Ephemera Are Us (Newsletter)
April 19, 2023
This is a story about why technological innovation […]
How the Empire Thinks (Bulletin)
April 6, 2023
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The State of the Onion (Newsletter)
February 25, 2023
Today would have been my mother’s 113th […]
Wringing Out the Old Year (Newsletter)
January 4, 2023
Dear Readers, Light rain has fallen all day here in […]
With a little Help from my Friends (newsletter)
November 15, 2022
I’m afraid another month blew by without saying […]
A House by the Side of the Road (Newsletter)
September 17, 2022
My apologies for not writing in August. Not only was […]
Why the Revolution Will Not Be Televised (newsletter)
July 9, 2022
Thanks to having our offer on a house accepted, June […]
Six Random Days in May (newsletter)
May 24, 2022
This month’s assorted provocations include […]
On Making Literary Connections (newsletter)
April 22, 2022
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On Conflict in Ukraine and in Two War Stories (Newsletter)
March 13, 2022
This month’s topical commentary comes with a […]
The Serpent Papers: A Novel by Jeff Schnader
March 4, 2022
Though I’ve never met Jeff Schnader, we […]
On Making Black and Other Lives Materially Matter (newsletter)
February 16, 2022
Celebrating Black History Month reminds one that, like […]
Becoming a Bookseller to Beat the Odds (newsletter)
January 18, 2022
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“The freedom and exhilaration of moral insensibility” (Newsletter)
October 25, 2021
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The “Beautiful Madness” that is Exarcheia (newsletter)
September 10, 2021
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Bringing Home the Bacon (newsletter)
August 19, 2021
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It’s Only Money (newsletter)
August 19, 2021
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Masters of Florid(ian) Political Prose (newsletter)
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These are tough times for political progressives in […]
A Penny for Your Ism (newsletter)
May 20, 2021
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The Gripes of Roth (newsletter)
April 5, 2021
Dear Readers, Tomorrow, I’ve recently learned, […]
Random Notes of the Season (newsletter)
March 23, 2021
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Getting the Better of a Protagonist and Vice Versa (newsletter)
February 19, 2021
It saddened me greatly when my principal muse David […]
Looking Behind and Beyond the Sacking of the Capitol
January 9, 2021
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One Day in Istanbul, the Star of Elliot Ackerman’s Newest Novel
July 7, 2020
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The “Flag Girl” Stumbles but Never Flags
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What am I doing here?

Published by Admin on April 13, 2026

Where my long, strange trip as a writer has taken me

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How to Utter Madness

Published by Admin on January 13, 2026

It’s hard to use your words when part of your vocabulary has been banned. Trump knows that and Orwell warned us about it.

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Now Available: “Her Own Devices”

Published by Admin on September 4, 2024

Dear Readers, I’m proud announce that on September 1st Guernica Editions officially released its fall catalog, featuring my novel Her Own Devices: A novel or…

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Lost and Found Memories

Published by Admin on June 30, 2024

The Father She Went to Find: A novel by Carter Wilson Book review by Geoffrey Dutton Poisoned Pen Press April 02, 2024 448 pages Paperback…

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Books Don’t Sell Themselves

Published by Admin on March 24, 2024

The Writing Was the Fun Part This is the first Perfidy Press newsletter to issue from Perfidy Press itself, and I am keeping my fingers…

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Nothing Special, just Life as We Know It

Published by Admin on August 18, 2023

Dear Readers, This month, no august pronouncements, just some random thoughts. Well, just one diatribe: Tech companies want to make themselves indispensable for anyone who…

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Two Literary Losses (Newsletter)

Published by Admin on June 15, 2023

“I’m not writing for a particular audience. The reader in mind is me. If someone else would write these books I could go play golf.”…

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Gee Whizz

Published by Admin on May 25, 2023

Dear Readers, This month’s newsletter is brought to you by the letter G. To start you off, here’s a typographic riddle. I saw this text…

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Ephemera Are Us (Newsletter)

Published by Admin on April 19, 2023

This is a story about why technological innovation should worry us as our lives inexorably shift online, if only because innovation begets obsolescence. Fourteen years…

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With a little Help from my Friends (newsletter)

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With a little Help from my Friends (newsletter)

Published by Admin on November 15, 2022

I’m afraid another month blew by without saying hi to you. And rather than ranting about politics or plugging my book, I’m offering a guest…

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