Here’s the deal, man, said Timmy Kelly. Gino looked up from lacing his black high top Converse sneakers, having trouble reaching the laces over the bulging expanse of his belly that heaved from the minor exertion. You sound like Joe Biden, he said. Timmy Kelly did a jaunty Irish jig. Exactly, he said. Gino grinned […]
Retired Scranton High School chemistry teacher Casey Weatherhogg rooted for the revolution. Burn it down, start all over again. But the revolution never arrived. Filling out his mail-in ballot on Election Day, Casey hoped for the best, voting for Scranton native son Joe Biden. Actually, he voted for Kamala Harris, a strong West Coast woman […]
Say hello to 75-year-old Casey Weatherhogg. A retired Scranton High School chemistry teacher and 1967 University of California at Berkeley graduate, Casey once followed the Grateful Dead. Now he follows Joe Biden into the White House as “The Power,” as writer Tom Wolfe called it, bears down on Scranton, the birthplace and childhood home of […]
My novels and short stories shove readers’ brains deep into the messy word world of cultural chaos and raw violence. But, in most media interviews about Paddy’s Day in Trump Town, my most recent novel, I’ve focused on partisan politics and the distorted way too many people live in Northeastern Pennsylvania hard coal country. And, […]
¡Ay caramba! Putting out the Scranton welcome mat to small business owners of color is one thing. Pulling the rug out from under their American Dream is another. The affront is all the worse if city officials targeted one of an increasing number of people of Mexican descent in whose hands lies the future of […]
