Brooklyn Nights
The night whispers in her ear as she turns the pages and the train clickety-clacks past the window. Her mind fills with dreams of distant destinations and Cleopatra.
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Ted Krever watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, went to Woodstock (the good one), and graduated Sarah Lawrence College with a useless degree in creative writing. He spent the next few decades in media journalism, at ABC News on the magazine show Day One with Forrest Sawyer and the Barbara Walters Interviews of a Lifetime series, as General Manager of BNNtv, a documentary production company, creating programs for CNN, A&E, Court TV, CBS, MTV News, Discovery People and CBS/48 Hours, and as VP/Production of a short-lived dotcom, followed swiftly by nine months of unemployment. Ted now writes novels in NY City. He has married for the second time, a triumph of optimism and takes up space in an apartment ruled by two cats. He was once accused of attempting to blow up Ethel Kennedy with a Super-8 projector.
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We met two years ago today. We’d exchanged a few emails and a couple of phone calls. I’d stood her up twice, once to help out a friend on short notice and once because I (really) got sick. Our first … Continue reading →
Commuting Adventures, Chapter 663
In Manhattan, rich people ride buses and subways, right alongside you and me. In Bloomberg’s world, this means that mass transit has to work – because those are his people – so, in Manhattan, it does. The buses are sleek, … Continue reading →
City of Characters, Number 372
I’m on the ferry heading to work this morning. As the boat is nubbing into port, I go to pull open the glass sliding door so we can all get off. and the guy standing next to me smiles and … Continue reading →
Invisible Forces at Work, Part two
I’m still working on ‘Mindbenders 2: Under the Radar’ (excerpts here). I hope you’re as anxious for me to finish as I am. The problem – I’ll take this problem – is that the story keeps getting better. I keep … Continue reading →
On the Bus
I can’t help it – I just have one of those faces. I stop in a public place for a minute and someone has to tell me their life story. I was riding the bus home the other night. When I … Continue reading →
With ‘Mindbenders 2’ coming soon, new praise for MB1!
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Book!, March 7, 2013 By JohnJesusPetrucci I read a lot and there are very few books I read that seem as fresh to me as Mindbenders did. I’ve been dying to read this for a … Continue reading →
Where We Came From
We all came here from somewhere. Unless you’re a Native American, your people came here from somewhere else, learning how to become American, figuring out what that meant, how to parse the line between the fears of the Old World … Continue reading →
The Man Who Didn’t Die – ‘Mindbenders 2’ Excerpt
The Man Who Didn’t Die Diemerpark, Ijburg, the Netherlands November De Jogt made for the ice, weaving among the black stone, aluminum and glass apartment buildings, pulling his collar tight against the wind. An early cold snap had frozen … Continue reading →
New Mindbenders excerpt starting today! (But not here)
Sandy Wolters runs a terrific blog and, as the start of my blog tour for ‘Mindbenders 2: Under the Radar’, you can find the second excerpt from the new book starting on her site today, along with a video of … Continue reading →