2 posts tagged “novel”
Where have I been?
- Editing the last few chapters of my novel. The storytelling's pretty much completed. It's mostly punctuation and proofreading now. Although there may be a hidden message when I see where I've written: "She turned his head."
- Quick visit to Olean, NY, where I get a re-charge from a non-fishing trip with my Sunday NY Times-reading friends. Now I need a recipe for yosenabe.
- Back to saying "no" to requests for charitable support. Especially from whiners who accuse my employer of dissing a diversity segment, when we've given more than $1 million to support that constituency over the years. "We don't find value in underwriting your online knitting festival, but we support knitters in general."
Spent the weekend raking accumulated snow off my roof. There's speculation that the weight of the snow is damaging the cinder block foundation of our house. I'm dubious, but the snow came a-tumbling down, anyway.
In the early 1990s, you were pretty much guaranteed to find me watching Spenser: For Hire, the detective series based
One of the "also starring" actors -- who played a Columbo-esque Boston police sergeant -- was played by Ron McLarty. He did a very wonderful job with a mostly under-written character. Went on to star in "Cop Rock," and he now appears as a judge on Law and Order.
But he's also written a wonderful novel about a middle-aged, alcoholic war veteran who embarks on a cross-country bike trip after the deaths of his parents. The Memory of Running is a wonderfully written book -- a bit like Richard Russo, with rich physical detail, and a little less of the occasional absurdist humor. It's a touching, engaging book that you should hunt for the next time you're in a bookstore and they've run out of espresso.
Incidentally, Warner Bros. has never re-released Spenser on DVD. So you can catch its re-runs on AOL's free TV service, although the service quality is inconsistent, at best.
