Mostly Madly

Love and its pain. Sex and its satisfactions. The joys of both. Mostly Madly is about a young journalist who is mourning the loss of first love and the women who remedy him – at their own pleasure and peril. Tommy Risk is a man in transition, moving on from his girlfriend of five years, Jess, a cool......more

Love and its pain. Sex and its satisfactions. The joys of both. Mostly Madly is about a young journalist who is mourning the loss of first love and the women who remedy him – at their own pleasure and peril. Tommy Risk is a man in transition, moving on from his girlfriend of five years, Jess, a cool fashion model, into a world of sex and love which revives him and enhances his understanding of women. He had treated Jess like a goddess, only to earn disdain as she attempted to shame him into someone he wasn’t. With his newfound freedom from emotional oppression, he reengages as a man who treats women the way women have taught him to treat women. Tommy quits his newspaper job and moves to the Villa Spaghetti to work on his first novel. We meet Felicia, an archaeologist who does not believe in monogamy and whom Tommy has loved since they met five years earlier. There is Justine, an aggressive feminist who Tommy suspects is intent on riding him until he can’t walk. Tommy endures a sociopathic housemate, a miserly and loveless photographer intent on destroying any joy he sees. Pam is a lifelong crush who comes back into his life 20 years after she rejected him. And Layne is a young art student who is exploring her sexuality with the force of an innocent. In the end, love heals love, and what Tommy thinks about women includes a lot of what he is not thinking about women.(less)

Born in New York City 1967. Reporter for Boston Globe. Flew with Navy Seals, got a note from Pavarotti, was told my a pulitzer winner that he had "been enjoying the flair of your writing style." Quit journalism at the age of 29. Rooming houses, welfare hotel and heroin, couches, church, manic depres......more

Born in New York City 1967. Reporter for Boston Globe. Flew with Navy Seals, got a note from Pavarotti, was told my a pulitzer winner that he had "been enjoying the flair of your writing style." Quit journalism at the age of 29. Rooming houses, welfare hotel and heroin, couches, church, manic depression, poverty. Produced 13 books. Leading avant garde writer since 1994, especially in CA. Mostly Madly is my first published novel. A once accomplished musician, I performed twice at the Newport Jazz Festival, opening for Miles Davis

Born in New York City 1967. Reporter for Boston Globe. Flew with Navy Seals, got a note from Pavarotti, was told my a pulitzer winner that he had "been enjoying the flair of your writing style." Quit journalism at the age of 29. Rooming houses, welfare hotel and heroin, couches, church, manic depression, poverty. Produced 13 books. Leading avant garde writer since 1994, especially in CA. Mostly Madly is my first published novel. A once accomplished musician, I performed twice at the Newport Jazz Festival, opening for Miles Davis (less)