Falling In Love Again: Marlene Dietrich and The Blue Angel
"Then Marlene Dietrich appeared. Klara released her grip, as if daring Rolf to move. Rolf couldn’t." --Summer of Long Knives, page 113 The Blue Angel, based on a novel whose…
My Old Short Stories Come To Life Again on Wattpad
I've got a fair sized collection of published short stories that haven't been seen in ages and would be a pain to collect. (My friend Neil actually has copies of…
The Twist And How To Do It
I use Grammarly for proofreading because to err may be human, but who the hell is satisfied with being human? The story twist is an ancient art, as old as stories themselves--think…
Next Twitter Chat 10/15/2013 at 8pm PDT
The next Summer of Long Knives Twitter chat will be Tuesday, October 15th, at 8pm Pacific. To join and follow the discussion, just use the hashtag #solk. The topic for…
The Goebbels Diaries
The quote in the last post from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on the Louis/Schmeling fight was one I remembered from The Goebbels Experiment, a documentary made by First Run Features (who also…
Louis vs. Schmeling I: June 19th, 1936
Louis vs. Schmeling was hardly the first time race and racism mattered in boxing (see Jack Johnson, among others), and it wouldn't be the last. But the stakes both in…
The Leadership Style of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler makes a brief appearance in my novel, Summer of Long Knives, but his presence is felt everywhere in it. The state he built, which obliterated all the norms of…
Summer of Long Knives Twitter Chat Transcript From 10-1-2013
It was a fun first chat, and we actually got to go into some depth about Rolf and Klara's marriage. Enjoy, and join us next Tuesday at 8pm for the…
Join the Summer of Long Knives Twitter Chat Tonight at 8pm PDT
There'll be others, weekly, actually, but you can say you got there before anyone else. Then later on, when the chat gets big, you can accuse me of selling out…
How Many Stories About Death and Loss Can Jim Take?
Greetings, literary fiction true believers! Follow the yellow brick link to my review of Ginosko #13 in The Review Review.