How to live on nothing is a question the publishers have not condescended to consider.
Posts on the writing of my upcoming book
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Celebrities
These days if a writer is smitten with the idea of writing a new book—a new analysis—of any supposedly well-known person, the obstacles to her research will be enormous.
Doris Duke: Changing Faces
We are all too complicated and contradictory to be explained.
Death of Ten Thousand Pricks
Scheduled to be published in August, 2018, The Silver Swan is now delayed till sometime in 2019.
I Want It to Be Said
By now we all know that the discrimination that afflicts one group afflicts all of us.
Doris Duke: Love, Sex, Power and Money
Does it matter that she never found her match in terms of money, status and achievement?
I Didn’t Sing for a Year
I remember being amazed when my young granddaughters and their friends listened, apparently unperturbed, to hip hop verses that demonize or degrade women.
Music Hath Charms
I grew up with almost no music at all. Music, after all, is not words and only words counted in that world.
Doris Duke and the Sea
Both Doris and Alleda developed physical strength, courage and confidence battling the waves on the beaches at Newport.
Doris Duke Goes to Press
My relief in learning that “The Silver Swan” will be published next June prompts me to rejoice like old-time newspaper editors when the daily edition was put to bed.