To Hell, and Back Again: An Interview with Arik Bjorn about his Novel “The Prodigal”

My former City Paper colleague, Jaroslav Dampfstain, said he wouldn’t mind if I posted this interview on my website while he shops it about to various periodicals. Thanks, JD! My novel, THE PRODIGAL, will be published on September 1. Click this link to buy it!   ////   Author Arik Bjorn tends to stand out […]

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“The Prodigal: a divine comedy, of sorts”: Preview 2020

  This is worth your read all the way through. But the giant hippo should have been a clue, as to that. 🙂   On a quiet Christmas Eve in 1998, I was working as a contract senior editor; my job was putting together the daily transcripts for National Public Radio. That day, a rerun […]

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