Sunday, July 2, 2023

"Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire." Order, read reviews and excerpts, plan to attend the launch event or a signing!

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Read the reviews!                       All editions of "Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire" are now published: print, eBook an...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

"Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire" The opening of Chapter One

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The Kindle, Nook & Apple Books editions of "Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire" were published on September 20, 2023, and t...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Review of "For the Best"

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Vanessa Lillie’s debut novel, “Little Voices,” published last year, was a very tough act to follow. As I wrote in my review, the Providence...

Review of "Little Voices"

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With her debut novel “Little Voices,” Vanessa Lillie has arrived on the American literary scene with a flash of brilliance. Aficionados of m...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Virginia students win with their National History Day project about open heart surgery!

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Some while ago, two students in Forest, Virginia, reached out to me regarding a National History Day project they were producing about the b...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

Four months later, Ocean State Stories is making news

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  Four months ago today, on Nov. 4, 2022, I left The Providence Journal, where I had been a staff writer for 41 years, to become director of...
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Monday, January 2, 2023

Unfit to Print: A Modern Media Satire. Now published!

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My 21st book was published in print and e-Book editions on Sept. 22, 2023, and the audio version will be published by Oct. 10. Order now! Fr...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Twenty-two years ago today. RIP, Dad.

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  Author's Note: I wrote this 12 years ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of my father's death. Like his memory, it has w...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Please welcome Ocean State Stories!

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I closed my November 4, 2022, farewell to The Providence Journal promising word soon of “adventures that await.” Ten days later, I am thri...
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Friday, November 4, 2022

One chapter ends, another begins

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  After 41 years and nine days at The Providence Journal, I completed my final shift on Friday, November 4, 2022. I left voluntarily, after ...
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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Remarks at the Sept. 24, 2022, Memorial Celebration of William Hardy Hendren III, M.D., held at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Thanks, Will, and thanks Jay, Pat, Jim, Kathy, Terry and Craig. And a big hello to Eleanor, Doug and Nancy, Linda, Rob, David and Astrid, an...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

The (future) King and I

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In late-summer 1986, the young Prince Charles visited Harvard to speak at the school's 350th anniversary celebration. I was among the jo...