I alway forget what a masterpiece of social commentary is Taylor Hackford's The Devil's Advocate (1997) on top of everything else...

  “At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don...

I flew to L.A. in 2001, a few weeks after 9/11, to meet Clive Barker and talk to him about his then-forthcoming sexy, creepy haunted Hollywo...

  My 1985 interview with Michael Damian, the Y&R star who had just then released his first album, in Close-Up magazine. This may have b...

On Sunday October 11th, 2015, my essay "Giving Thanks For New-Stock Canadians" —a reply to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper'...

" Both boys have safari chairs, presents from Aunt Nuzah and Uncle Fouad Hamzeh. Mike can use his easily, but we still have to help E. ...

 

My parents took me to The Sound of Music in 1966. It was showing at a grand, gilded cinema in Beirut—the kind we used to have, with stills ...

This is  Mario Geo's 1967 Toronto Star photograph of American Olympic gold medalist and ex-pro football Milt Campbell and his family, ...

A detail from John Singleton Copley's "The Death of Major Pierson, 6 January 1781" (1783) features a Black Loyalist soldier ...

Does anyone else map out the writing of their books with mnemonic devices? Each of my novels has had an associated fragrance, usually via a ...

Last weekend, we lost David Moss at the age of 96. He was the father of my big sister, Nancy, whom some of you know from my books and essays...

It's funny what you wind up missing during a lockdown. The restaurant at the top of Nordstrom, Bar Verde, has a prime view of the...

Today's post brought the author copies of the new editions of my three novels from my new publisher, Open Road Media. I couldn't be ...

The highlight of this past week was undoubtedly getting these copies of Les Ombres de Wild Fell , the French translation of my novel  Wild F...