( 2025 fiction faves continued): The Last tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Hotel De Dream by Edmund White; A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell; What’s With Baum by Woody Allen; Something to Look Forward To by Fannie Flagg; The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd;
( 2025 fiction faves continued): The Last tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Hotel De Dream by Edmund White; A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell; What’s With Baum by Woody Allen; Something to Look Forward To by Fannie Flagg; The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd;
My books of the year (read in 2025 regardless of when first published): FICTION: The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad NONFICTION: The Very Heart of It (Diaries) by Thomas Mallon.
Other favorites read in 2025: FICTION: The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore;
Other NONFICTION faves read in 2025: Comedy Nerd by Judd Apatow; The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Charles Neider, Editor); The Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen; Newman for Everyone (Jules M. Brady, Editor); John and Paul - A Love Story by Ian Leslie;
(Continued 2024 Faves) NONFICTION: “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane” by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams; “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines; “On Being Human” by Fulton J. Sheen; (continued)
My other recommended favorites of 2024: FICTION: “Pop. 1280” by Jim Thompson; “Ladies Lunch” by Lore Segal; “The Last Dream” by Pedro Almódovar; “Creation” by Gore Vidal; “First Love” by Ivan Turgenev; (continued…)
My Books of the Year (read in 2024 regardless of when published, and recommended): FICTION: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë . NONFICTION: “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain. 📕
High Tower Magazine reports that my short story “Electric Guitar” will be published November 28, 2024, Thanksgiving Day. How cool is that? And the print anthology (the 24 stories they accepted for publication this year) will come out in June of 2025. 🌿
Check out the new issue of Black Cat Weekly, kicking off the haunting season with this awesome cover illustration by Ron Miller.
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Very happy to announce that my new short story “Electric Guitar” has been accepted by High Tower Magazine, and will be published soon.
Please stay tuned.
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Just published: Black Cat Weekly, link below. Brian Rieselman new short story “The Crystal Goblet” appears in issue #145, searchable here along with lots of other great fiction. https://t.co/IgPCbXwvrX