BOOKS
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
A love letter to, and a history of, this most important and pleasurable place
Steinbeck's Ghost
Set in Steinbeck's home town of Salinas, CA, the novel is an exploration of where one actually finds a home
Bridge of Time
The worst field trip ever turns into a time-travel adventure when best friends Joan Lee and Lee Jones wake up in 1864, and their tour guide is a young reporter named Sam Clemens
The Haunting of Charles Dickens
Meg's brother Orion has gone missing, so she and family friend Charles Dickens set off in search of him through London's seamy underworld
Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom
A history of the classroom through the lens of my own school experience, and a call for a renewed commitment to public education
After the Gold Rush
Each of these stories is about the peril and privilege of being a parent
Fliegelman's Desire
My first novel, about an urban wanderer, what I like to think of as a tribute to Italo Calvino, Stanley Elkin, and Franz Kafka
First to Leave Before the Sun
My friend Dave Tilton and I each wrote novellas that end up in Modesto, California; mine's about Okies and Dave's is about God and baseball