Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Talking Art, Coloring Books and The Creative Fire with Walter Paul Bebirian
Coloring books were forbidden when I was a kid. Why? Because, my Dad said, they killed creativity. Make your own pictures! Once, I hid under the bed and colored in the comics from the newspaper and decided he was…
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
The Drawing Lesson Sampler…Prologue
This is the very beginning of The Drawing Lesson, the first in The Trilogy of Remembrance where you will meet Alexander Wainwright and his art dealer, James Helmsworth. And all that lies ahead!
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Do you remember when my protagonist, Alexander Wainwright met another fictional character, Marianne Cotton in Central Park. If not, click here. http://bit.ly/xRcuF .
The author of that character, Magdalena Ball has a new novel just out called Black Cow about…
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Plaza de Mayo
I took these photographs in the Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina about five years ago. This square is also called The Mothers of May Square because every Thursday, the mothers of Argentina gather to protest the deaths of…
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Is Cyberspace Big Enough?
I’ve been talking about characters in The Trilogy of Remembrance, such as Alexander Wainwright and Rinaldo coming to life on this blog and telling their own stories in their own words.
But here’s something new.
Is…
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
Penn Station: Dignity Regained.
Wonderful article by Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times today Sunday, February 12th, about plans to restore the glory of the old station which was torn down in 1964. Anyone who has walked…
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Great Fire of 1904
The devastation created by the fire was immense and covered many downtown city blocks. But the photograph below shows just how terrible the destruction was. This shows the same street before the fire. So, we have…
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Trying to Get a New Novel Underway.
I’m not trying to tell anyone how to write a novel. I’m trying to figure out how to write the third novel in The Trilogy of Remembrance. I think back on how I wrote the other five novels. Some came…
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
A Note of Apology!
To all those who received “disturbing” or just plain “weird” tweets from me. My explanation? It wasn’t me. My email accounts and my twitter accounts have been well and truly hacked. And now I’m trying to reconstruct everything.
Continue Reading...…
