Carlo | February 10, 2010
I’ve been neglectful of my website. It’s been nearly a month since I updated. I’ve been very busy, but it’s time to catch up.
In mid-December, my wife suggested I e-mail as many people as I could think of to tell them I wanted to engage more. Being semi-retired can be lonely, even when there’s work [...]
Carlo | December 27, 2009
These are my best 2009 reads. I reviewed all of them except Box 21. Maybe I included that one because I read it for fun.
T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon (Knopf)
Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone (Melville House)
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (Knopf)
Peter Kuper, Diario de Oaxaca (PM Press)
David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp [...]
Carlo | June 28, 2009
I spent a few hours on Larchmere Boulevard in Cleveland yesterday, baking in the sun to sell copies of my book, “Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories.” I was part of the Loganberry Books local authors’ fair, which was part of a daylong flea market.
Didn’t sell a single copy, but I saw a lot of friends [...]
Carlo | June 13, 2009
Lylah and I drove to Fredericksburg, an Ohio town so small it seems like nothing more than a string of houses between huge tracts of land, today to pick up a bentwood rocker from Marty Hershberger.
Marty’s Amish; his faith forbids him from having his picture taken, so I settled—happily—for a shot of one of his [...]
Carlo | May 4, 2009
I had a difference of style with a major newspaper the other day when the editors there sanitized my review of a book based on the work of Philip K. Dick, the science fiction writer. I punned on his name, and it wouldn’t fly. Funny how the gap remains between what people can joke about [...]
Carlo | April 7, 2009
Penny Stetz, a tech whiz I met through Macintosh guru Spike, is coming over to help me update technologically. Blogs take feeding; Facebook takes even greater attention. I have both, and I don’t use them enough.
I’d write more for my blog if I could embed links in it, along with photography. I’d do more on [...]
Carlo | January 1, 2009
I was Googling Mike Belkin for links to his website (http://www.mike-belkin.com) when I came across this review of “Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories” from the Akron Beacon Journal in May 2007. Better late than never to post it. I’m doing a couple of signings for the book next month at the Cleveland Home and Garden [...]
