How strange, that Fernando Arrabal's book-length Letter to General Franco --written and mailed to him in 1971--has never until now been translated. A searing plea for compassion and change in Spain. Timely, in view of our current vale of tears. The great playwright's letter is full of details about life under fascism, informative of the weird little mechanism's of fascist control. Available in English from dialogosbooks.com

Right. Well, we seem to be done. Rhodes' end, though a bit unclear where he goes after the spell of rotting in a Marseille prison ( The...

This may be the end of the Rhodes (take a look, the novel The Jailbird's Song , www.dialogosbooks.com , amazon etc). This bulletin, just...

And so we stagger on... with our tear-streaks, our clenched fists... bleeding brains. Those who have fled are dogged by our shadows, by...

Is my hero, Rhodes, really off--with jutting jaw, or merely Beckettian shuffle--to the flames of Hell? What is the end, in the final...

Soon, there was nothing before the last men but a long boulevard beyond which the Void could be read like a poster. The Earth Affair was...

We can't go on. We go on. We'll stagger through the miasma of corruption that lies ahead, then we'll try to vote in the fall. The...

You expect life to contain its own magic. You want to reach into it and pull out, I don't know, a... calendar, or a harmonica. But no, it...

This is bad. Is my guy--your guy, Rhodes--in a foreign jail? Has his exquisite rage with humanity caused some giant misunderstanding?...

Bukowski writes "orientate," as a verb. I mean, I know he's supposed to be rough, but not that rough. And Rhodes, Harrison, you know, my...

It's the pablum of paratactic parity! Melt-down to mediocrity! There's no above or below--no hierarchy of values I can grab like a branch...

The latest flouncing, smirking, thrusting little irritation that's about to give me a hemorrhoid on my forehead is the tip-swivel, the...

So, a novel of mine begins (OK, shamefully) with my hero, Rhodes, vomiting in an alley in Morocco. Suggestive of his life's travails,...

Really, how are we supposed to breathe (let alone share a laugh over our favorite Harrison Rhodes novel), with the effluvia wafting up...

Rhodes checked in, can't believe my luck #RhodesToMorocco #BughouseBlues. It seems he's happy enough with his tale (Bughouse) of our...

The real issue (and, trust me, Rhodesie agrees) is the hot "literary fiction," including award-winners, we're seeing spread out like porn...

I think I'll be OK, I think so, with people saying "lay" when they mean "lie," "unchartered" when they mean "uncharted," "irregardless"...

Too much to ask, I get it. For my hero, Harrison Rhodes, to check in. I mean, with the state of... with the way the world is. Right? His...

Hearty thanks for kind comments--really, for bearing up under the onslaught--regarding Bughouse Blues. #Bughouse blues #Rhodes To...

We hope you trudge, and sometimes twitch, alongside our hapless hero, Rhodes--as he deals with the unspeakable affronts life has to...