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Sudden Reversal – Naturally
Hard upon a blog post concerning my new book, Blood on Their Hands, I’m putting that aside momentarily for something else that is – well,...
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Mar 28, 20202 min read
Coming Attraction
For much of my life, I thoroughly enjoyed going to the movies. Unattached the last 20-plus years, however, my trips to the movie theaters...
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Mar 19, 20203 min read
A Bloody Good Book
But the Kindle version is already up on Amazon. Here’s the link, in abbreviated form: https://tinyurl.com/uz72onm. Novel due for release...
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Mar 19, 20205 min read
Hope for Slowing Coronavirus?
Dr. David Brownstein Dear readers, I don’t mean to flood you with my newsletter, but I felt that this is something you would want to...
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Mar 17, 20204 min read
A Novel Idea
You may think at first that the tirade I’m embarking on has nothing to do with books, but please be patient; I’ll get there. Last week, I...
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Mar 12, 20201 min read
Coronavirus: It’s your immune system, stupid!
A public service announcement from your friendly scribe. Dr. David Brownstein We’re all scared as heck about this diabolical coronavirus,...
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Mar 9, 20203 min read
Birth of a Book
Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinnie Two movies that I enjoyed immensely were Gran Torino, starring Clint Eastwood, and my all-time favorite...
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Mar 5, 20201 min read
Coronavirus
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Feb 28, 20202 min read
Fund-amentals of Rape Prevention
Mark Herman today In my last newsletter (http://bobbrinkwriter.com/all-categories/9645/), I broke the news that the main character in my...
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Feb 3, 20203 min read
Murder Redux
Mark Herman today A big new development has just occurred in the murder case that my novel MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never...
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Jan 7, 20201 min read
Book It!
The holidays are over, but winter sure as heck isn’t. With the shopping and celebrating done, and the cold weather (even down here in...
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Jan 3, 20203 min read
A Novel Look at 9/11, Iraq
If you have any interest in national politics, I think you’ll find Mark Spivak’s political thriller, The American American Crusade...
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Dec 17, 20199 min read
My 2019 Christmas/Hanukkah Letter
Dear Friends, And y’all are mah friends, be you from the South where I am (well, Florida) or, as Woody Guthrie would have it, from the...
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Nov 16, 20196 min read
Metamorphosis
The Breakers hotel, Palm Beach Tribalism and elitism go hand-in-hand. As the rich get richer, to the point where 1 percent of the...
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Nov 1, 20195 min read
Historical, Heinous Crime Resurrected
Curtis and Marjorie Chillingworth Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth The most sensational, lurid crime in the history of Florida occurred in...
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Oct 20, 20195 min read
Tales of Ratman
George Orwell At a point near the end of The Blue Rat, an extraordinary novel by Michael Hartnett, I was transported back many decades to...
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Oct 2, 20193 min read
All That Jazz
In New Smyrna Beach, Fla., the century began on a high note that has been celebrated every year. We speak of the Jazz Festival in late...
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Sep 21, 20194 min read
Is Our Democracy Doomed?
Folks, in case you weren’t watching, this country is in deep trouble. I’m shelving the world of books for the moment to talk about a...
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Sep 7, 20194 min read
A Big Fat Fallacy
Wouldn’t you think that a country ranking at or near the bottom of the advanced nations in life expectancy and infant mortality would...
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Aug 22, 20194 min read
The Green New Deal
The Donald is hurt. An idea he floated was labeled “absurd” by the prime minister of a tiny European nation. Denmark. President Trump...
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