Twenty Years!

I started this blog twenty years ago! I didn’t post a lot at first. It was mostly cat pictures back then (Finney and Buddy, that’s them on the far left and right of the banner), and about my books, of course. The paperback for The Restless Sleep was coming out, and I’d already started on my next book about the former Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.

I was still doing commentaries for NPR’s All Things Considered at the time. I haven’t done a commentary for them in I don’t know how many years, but publishers keep putting it in my bio. I understand why they do that. I once mentioned my embarrassment about it to my former producer and he was very understanding. They know why publishers do that, too.

I was also still drumming with Manhattan Samba! This is me at the Halloween Parade in 2005, with fellow drummers Ellen and Maddy. Maddy lives in Florida now, but Ellen still drums with Manhattan Samba and I just saw her and the band at the annual Dance Parade. In fact, I’ll include a picture of her now, with the band. Scroll down to see it. That’s her on the far right. Do something in your life that makes you as happy as Ellen is, drumming in the band.

Manhattan Samba

Manhattan Samba

I’m Reading at KGB’s!

Monday, June 10, 2025 @7pm
KGB Reading Series
85 E. 4th Street

My new book titled The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood came out in January! I’ll be reading with Carrie Courogen, author of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius, Lucian Truscott, a former Village Voice staff writer, author of Dress Gray, and Jonathan Coleman, author of the true crime classic At Mother’s Request and the biography of basketball titan Jerry West, West by West, My Charmed, Tormented Life.

The Killing Fields of East New York

Book Events for The Killing Fields of East New York

My new book titled The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood came out on January 28, 2025. I have a few book-related events coming up.

June 10, 2025
KGB Reading Series
85 E. 4th Street, 7PM

August 13, 2025
Bryant Park Author Series
A panel about crime with author Peter Moskos.
Details to come.

August 27, 2025
Book Talk, West Islip Public Library
3 Higbie Lane, West Islip, NY, 7PM

October, 2025
Book Talk, Cypress Hills Local Development Center/United Community Centers.
Details to come.

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