Hawthorne, N.J., appearance Oct. 3

On Friday, Oct. 3. at 6:30, I'll be at Well Read (New and Used) Books in Hawthorne, N.J., along with Eric Shonkwiler and Brian Mihok. I'll be talking crime fiction and signing copies of SHOOT THE WOMAN FIRST, KINGS OF MIDNIGHT, COLD SHOT TO THE HEART and GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER.

The Star-Ledger Building: 1966-2014

Paid a last visit Wednesday night to the mostly-gutted and soon-to-be-vacated Star-Ledger office in Newark, where the paper's been since 1966 and where I worked for 13 years (1995-2008). The organization's been divided and dismantled, the staff decimated by layoffs, buyouts and attrition, and those remaining have been split up into smaller leased satellite offices in other cities. The building itself was sold to a developer and likely to be razed. Contrary to Thomas Wolfe, sometimes you have to go home again, if only to see that it's not there for you anymore.

(Above, stacked and discarded mailbox trays of former staffers.)
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UPDATE
And a final photo, taken by Helen Twelvetrees the week of Sept. 22.

BLADE RUNNER's biggest anachronism

Deckard reading a newspaper in 2019.