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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 […]

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 […]

“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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

…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. […]

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 http://ebisupublications.com/books/.  Forty-one years ago I was reading the history of my people, and it seemed clear to me […]

When I think about life before Stonewall the anger wells up in me. I think about my mother offering to spend the money she’d been saving for my wedding on a psychologist who would fix me. Or offering to pay for a nose job—the theory being that I would look less Jewish and boys would […]

Last week I wrote about how the U.S. helped create an organization of fanatical Islamists in Afghanistan—the Taliban. Later we engaged in a long and fruitless war against them, and now we’re going to turn the country back to them. What I find most intriguing, and saddest, about this turn of events is that we’ve […]