The Authorial Rabbit telephoned friend M. A. Titmarsh the other day. Titmarsh is self-isolating as is the AR, but showing no symptoms. “I’ve been remembering John Keats,” cried AR. “Traveling in ‘the realms of gold,’ which someone pointed out recently meant, as well as its metaphorical sense, just reading, because old books had gilt at … More . . . half in love with easeful Death

Friend M. A. Titmarsh yesterday mentioned wearing a six gun belt, chaps, boots, a shirt with fringes and a cowboy hat when a child. That image of him will linger long in the Authorial Rabbit’s mind. Hardcopy photos of 20th century children posing in such gear lie yellowing in many a storage box on closet … More The Crying Cowboy

The Authorial Rabbit and friend Michael Angelo Titmarsh discussed solitude the other day. Titmarsh remembered the lines in Wordsworth’s Prelude: “And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much/The self-sufficing power of Solitude.” In the West, being alone or isolated, away from electricity and other modern urban conveniences, not to mention the radio, TV, the … More Solitude

The AuthorialRabbit recently watched 1977’s Oh, God! starring George Burns in his remarkable showbiz comeback. He was in his eighties. Singer and actor John Denver’s Moses character in the movie receives God’s word from Burns at first by speaker and car radio, later in person. As Burns’ God points out, He could deliver his message to Denver … More In these troubled times . . .

Approached by celebrity self-gratification guru Dr. Randy Pandolphian during a late night visit to an ATM last year, the Authorial Rabbit agreed to edit his A Manual for Perfect People. The Rabbit’s own work had been moving slow, and no one could say it was remunerative. The manual is now done, thank heavens, and available … More Perfection

My latest book, Agains, explores the all too human quest for immortality. It’s the near future and tech is loading our old selves into brand new manufactured bodies. Young Sinthia Again is trying hard to figure out who she really is in her new body. Her parents too have to adapt to a daughter they … More Back from the Dead

My low-profile furry friends have got themselves into another fine fix, this time out of doors and down amongst the reeds and bulrushes (cattails). A nefarious trap has been set for them in the swampy places, and I know you’ll root for them to succeed on their new quest. Take the journey with the ever-impulsive … More Waldi and Miss Wink’s New Quest

Beloved Sgt. Sylvie’s back! IHIT Sgt. Sylvie Clanner and her mentor, former Moscow Circus clown Insp. Dmitri Bezukhov, search for a missing child and encounter some serious and bizarre empire building along the way. Visit Amazon for the paperback and the ebook.

The Trumpet blares. Both the words themselves and the compulsion to produce them interest us. The words are those of the playground: unreflective, impulsive, charged with emotion. It is this charge that generates so welcome a real experience for many people drowning in the great abstractions of our age. Those other politicians, many of whom … More By His Words

Finding Klarissa is my next Sgt. Clanner and Insp. Bezukhov mystery, the second in the series. It’s due out later this year. Visit Amazon.com for my current titles. Liars abound in fiction and also in the sphere usually not thought of as fiction. They inhabit Finding Klarissa. In our era lying has been elevated to … More Summer Confabulations