Arriving in Rovinj, Croatia, November 2013,
Travel Notes Patrice and I have settled in Rovinj, Croatia, until at least 15 April 2014. The first apartment we rented (12th century plague house) did not meet our needs. Patrice found another apartment, which meets our needs in spades. These travel notes is an...Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:
While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler‘s Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel, Hot Country and its follow-on, The Star of Istanbul. I think Hot Country is as good as any novel...Leaving Madison
We are leaving Madison. Tonight we board Turkish Airlines flight 6 for Istanbul, Turkey, thence to Venice for a few days and onto Rovinj, Croatia. I’ve finished the final edit on my next novel (which Patrice will read on the plane), formatted Serge Kotlar and...Leaving Boulder
Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountains eastern slope and the Boulder, Colorado, Flatirons, disappears. I am glancing over my task list, which in the nature of task lists, is endless; however, there are strike-thru’s up there at the top. Patrice has been teaching; I...2nd Installment: The Wisconsin Stories
Patrice publishes her first story: Burial As was Bereft, our previous short story publication, Burial will be offered free on Amazon.com for the five days (20-24 July 2013) during its publication month. Click on Burial on those dates and download it for free. “Robert...Featured Books
Ledokhod: Spirit Falls translated into Russian
Ледоход is the translation into Russian of the novel, Spirit Falls, a coming-of-age novel set in the late 1950’s on the empty and hardscrabble borderland between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin.
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