As much as I’ve enjoyed the publicity phase, I’m OK with it ending and getting back to writing. Really. There was an initial rush, a surge of satisfaction that accompanied the publication – seeing it for the first time in a store, getting a review, being interviewed — and some funny things have [...]

Oct. 16, 2005. Washington, D.C. In a lavish ceremony at the Ritz Carlton last night, Karl Rove was awarded the Joseph McCarthy Prize for Patriotism, easily defeating nominees Louis Farrakhan and Tom DeLay. Mr. Rove, grinning from ear to ear, joined prior winners, including George Wallace, Barry Goldwater and Richard M. Nixon.
In accepting his [...]

Washington, D.C. Residential real estate markets across the U.S. have softened significantly in recent weeks, as interest rates continue to rise and uncertainty over the economy grows.
“There’s starting to be a lot of properties available in almost every city,” says Justin Fromley, a broker with Coldwell Banker, “and the ones that are [...]

No Direction Home

At the height of the counter-cultural revolution in the Sixties, in what was meant to be an act of protest, a bomb planted by Fergus Keane, a character in my first novel Backward-Facing Man, literally blows up in an innocent young man’s hands. Keane, who is forced to flee society and live underground, surfaces [...]