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About

 Over the years Robert has been a journalist, media executive, teacher, and author. He has contributed book reviews and critical essays to Heavy Feather Review and Exacting Clam. His poetry has been published in the West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal, and his short fiction has appeared in The Paragon Journal, Literary Orphans Journal, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal. The Chastened Heart was featured by the editors of KIRKUS REVIEWS as one of their favorite independently-published novels of 2014. The Earth and Its Sorrows (2010), Sunrise (2007), and American Family (2004) also received generous critical praise. His latest novel, Letting the House Go, was published in August 2022 by Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR), and has earned distinction as a 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist. Across the Endless Night, its highly-anticipated sequel, is to be published by Unsolicited Press in August 2026. He and his wife reside in Western Connecticut and treasure their view of the Litchfield Hills.

"To give the mundane its beautiful due."-- John Updike

Short Fiction, Essays and Book Reviews

"What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better" - Book Review

Exacting Clam, Spring , 2024

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"Men in My Situation" - Book Review

Heavy Feather Review, March 13, 2023

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"Someone Speaks Your Name" - Book Review

Amazon, January 20, 2023

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"You Have Reached Your Destination" - Book Review

Heavy Feather Review, November 21, 2022

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"Gatsby Goes Public" - Literary Essay

Heavy Feather Review, August 25, 2022

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"Proof of Me and Other Stories" - Book Review

Heavy Feather Review, May 27, 2022

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"When Me And God Were Little" - Book Review

Heavy Feather Review, May 16, 2022

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"A Heaven of their Choosing" - Book Review

Heavy Feather Review, March 20, 2022

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"The Vigil" - Short Fiction

Linden Avenue Literary Journal, September 2019 (Issue 80)

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"The Cove" - Short Fiction

Literary  Orphans Journal, January 2019 (Issue 37)

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"The Trouble with Memory" - Short Fiction

The Paragon Journal, November 2018 (Issue 14)

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