I have found a better way to get at the truth than my psychiatric articles: FICTION
You seem to be the idol of only a crawling swarm of small souls, who love to glorify your most flagrant unworthiness in print or praise your vast possessions worshippingly; or sing of your unimportant private habits and sayings and doings, as if your millions gave them dignity.” Mark Twain 1869 Wait there’s more: ”Poor …
I grew up in a kosher home during the 50’s in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, mostly a Jewish garden apartment town, four rooms for 5 of us. When my sister entered adolescence, she got the second bedroom and my parents slept on a Castro Convertible in the living room. By today’s standards we were poor, …
No single message, but a lot of important ones. 1) Don’t give up. Ever! No matter how bleak your situation may seem. 2) Have your work be something you love. By this I don’t mean anything fancy or something that will sound good at a party. In Vanderbilt’s case it was simple. He loved money. …
His life, as it actually was, is fascinating, but I was writing a novel. A fine accurate biography of Vanderbilt had recently been written by A. J. Stiles, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. However, a biography is not a novel. …
Commodore began its life as a novel being written by Michael Russell, the main character in the novel, After Lisa I am finishing now. I needed a contrast between Michael’s situation (his son is suicidal, the insurance company is kicking his son out of the hospital after 4 days, he is completely impotent against the …