If you’ve been trying to purchase books through this website, I’m having a problem with PayPal. Until it is fixed, please order directly from me. Send checks to 9026 N. Syracuse St., Portland OR 97203. I’ll waive postage on all orders received before January 1. Prices are still $15 per each volume of the trilogy, […]
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Jan Marie Du Bois: Feminist, Artist, Friend – Part I
Jan Du Bois and I first met early in 1977. She was living in Berkeley, working as a bookkeeper but most passionate about her art, which was French tapestry. In October 1974 I joined the Oakland Women’s Press Collective (WPC). In those days we laboriously typeset copy, printed the books on dinky little offset presses, […]
An Upcoming Reading–and a Good Review
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, please come to my reading: Date: Saturday, November 16 Time: 1-3 pm Place: 163 Alhambra St., San Francisco CA Refreshments will be served. Good literature (even if I say so myself), good company, and good eats! My latest book, A Meteor Shower, was recently reviewed in Philadelphia Gay News and […]
How I Came to Write These Books
In my last blog post, I promised to talk about how I came to write the Jezebel trilogy. I began to think about Jezebel in 1977. The Oakland Women’s Press Collective, which I’d poured heart and soul into for three years, had crashed and burned, leaving former members not speaking to each other. During the […]
Why Study History?-Part I
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” That was originally said by Edmund Burke in the 18th Century, and paraphrased by Santayana and later by Churchill. Unfortunately, most people, including our leaders, are not interested in history. This was brought home to me last month, on the anniversary of 9/11. Charles Blow, […]
Why Buy Books?
Books are more important than ever in times like these—times of “alternative facts” spouted by government propagandists, as well as accusations of “fake news” when a journalist’s report contradicts the canonical story. In this post I want to write about why we might want to keep our own libraries—books printed on paper, on shelves in […]
A Very Convenient “Suicide”
Jeffrey Epstein was born in Brooklyn to working class parents. So was I. And if you believe the official story—that he hanged himself—I’d like to sell you a very nice bridge from our home town. Epstein dropped out of college in 1974 but was hired to teach physics and math at Dalton, an exclusive private […]
A Meteor Shower: Reading at Two Rivers Bookstore
Y’all come! I’m reading from my most recent historical novel, A Meteor Shower, at Two Rivers Bookstore, 8836 N Lombard St, Portland OR. The action starts on Sunday, September 8, from 2-4 pm: love and chariot warfare in the ancient Middle East, kings and queens, peasants and prophets. Below are some comments from reviewers, and […]
A Tale of Two Armbands
…and how they came to be made. This year, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, I traveled from Portland OR to New York to celebrate. In addition to my Gay Liberation Front t-shirt, I brought two homemade armbands with me, with pink triangles and Jewish stars, in order to make a statement about anti-Semitism. […]
The Trilogy is Complete!
At long last, the third book is in print. You can now buy all three novels—The Throne in the Heart of the Sea, The Stars in Their Courses, and A Meteor Shower—on the Ebisu Publications website at https://ebisupublications.com/books/. Forty-one years ago I was reading the history of my people, and it seemed clear to me […]