L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
We Dropped a Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IV“Bonus Baby” Selected for 2016 O. Henry Prize Collection
ANNOUNCING THE 2016 O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES THE BEST SHORT FICTION OF THE YEAR May 19, 2016 By Literary Hub We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2016, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. Read selected stories here: […]
Is Trump manipulating fears to mobilise the masses?
May 2, 2016 / Huck 55 – The Freaked Out Issue Image: © Anthony Gerace Fear and loathing in the United States WATCHING THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL primaries play out is like walking down a long hallway lined wall-to-wall with fun-house mirrors. What we see is ugly, twisted and distorted – but in the case of our […]
Burdens and Privileges
March 9, 2016 / Los Angeles Review of Books Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir, by Alan Rifkin, Published 2016-02-23, Brown Paper Press, 214 Pages ALAN RIFKIN has been something of a talismanic figure in my life. I’m sure this is news to him because despite his generous thanks to me in the back of Burdens by Water: An Unintended […]
Welcome to Wolf Country
Published by Orion Last year, OR7, the first wild wolf to roam California in nearly a century, met his mate and started a pack in southern Oregon. Sightings of another wolf in the area were reported earlier this week. Author Joe Donnelly took a recent trip to Oregon, retracing his travels described in “Lone Wolf,” […]
Future Man
Originally printed in Surfer’s Journal TAKE LAS VIRGENES ROAD FROM THE 101 FREEWAY and drive into the heart of Malibu Canyon past hoary Mulholland and keep going to Piuma Road. Then, take a left and climb through the rolling hills up toward the mountain peaks and find Las Flores Canyon Road, the downward glide of […]
Fifty Minutes
Originally published in Slake: Los Angeles, #2 Crossing Over, 2011. Selected for Best American Mystery Stories, 2012, Robert Crais, Editor. By Joe Donnelly and Harry Shannon The client is a balding, sunburned man with soft, forgettable features. Running late, he enters the office at 7:02 p.m. and nearly knocks a small Buddha statue from its […]
The Pirate of Penance
Originally published in Slake: Los Angeles, issue #1 “Still Life”, summer 2010. Featured in We Dropped A Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IV, spring 2014 Mystic Beginnings When Lorey Smith was 12 years old, her father loaded her and her brother into his black 1965 Mustang and drove them down the Pacific Coast […]
The Tortoise and the Tank Face Off at Fort Irwin
Originally published in the LA Weekly SAND IN THE BOX The worst sandstorm in John Wagstaffe’s memory is at full howl. We’re deep inside Iraq, somewhere between the towns of Medina Jabal and Medina Wasl, on a day when the threat of violence is as thick as the squalls of sand. But there’s something about […]
