READ MY NOVEL: "A BIRDHOUSE IN BROOKLYN"
Self-portrait in a Van Gogh
Woodcut 18"x18"
About Me
- Linda Danz
- A native New Yorker, I was born on the lower East Side before it was trendy. Way before. Years ago, when the corporate world of magazine publishing booted me out the door, I picked myself up, dusted myself off and decided after struggling as a painter for most of my adult life that I would struggle as a writer. The idea for my novel “A Birdhouse In Brooklyn” came from an original idea I had for a screenplay, “The Birdhouse.” While writing that screenplay—a collaborative effort—I felt my story was bigger than a movie and I began in earnest to write it as novel. The novel is entirely a work of fiction. Names, characters, business organizations, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. The use of names of actual persons, places, and events is incidental to the plot, and is not intended to change the entirely fictional character of the work. A BIRDHOUSE IN BROOKLYN has been registered with the Writers Guild of America, East #R20993 (June 13, 2006). No part of it may be posted or reprinted without permission from the author, Linda Danz. All photographs, unless otherwise credited, are mine.
SHORT STORIES
POETRY
Followers
My Blog List
-
-
BOB DYLAN and HIS BAND Capitol Theatre June 13, 2017 - Some shots for you from last night's concert. Going back tonight and tomorrow. SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS1 week ago
-
The Only Possible One - “‘The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness’, wrote Orwell in ‘Politics and the English Language’, and his words are as true today as th...1 week ago
-
It is still my story - Sunrise from a hospital room. They say you live and you learn, in my 45 years, I have discovered this is not true. You are never too old to screw your l...2 months ago
-
House With The Little Rose Garden - Nicole Hale, singer, pianist, guitar and accordion player extraordinaire put together and released ‘House With The Little Rose Garden’ in 2015 on glorious ...5 months ago
-
Alea jacta est - Foto: *I.N., Nubes de esta tarde, por el norte, 2012.* Ya hay una fecha y es inminente. Sólo quedan los últimos preparativos y concentrarse para que todo ...4 years ago
Books at my side
- Proust. The Search by Benjamin Taylor
- Jackson C Frank: The clear hard light of genius. A memoir by Jim Abbott
- The Intruder. A crime novel by Hakan Östlundh
- Georgia A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Eveningland. Stories by Michael Knight
- Liars and Saints. A novel by Maile Meloy
- Depths, by Henning Mankell
- Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
- Quicksand. What It Means To Be a Human being by Henning Mankell
- The Trespasser. A novel by Tana French
- Not My Father's Son. A memoir by Alan Cumming
- M Train by Patti Smith
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want it. Stories by Maile Meloy
- Tribe. On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
- The White Rage. The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
- H Is For Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
- I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
- Good-Bye Columbus and Five Short Stories, Letting Go by Philip Roth
- The Prague Orgy. By Philip Roth
- JFK and the Unspeakable. Why he died and why it matters. By James W. Douglass
- Chasing Lost Time. The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Soldier, spy and translator. By Jean Findlay
- Meanwhile On a Roof In Chinatown. Ingrid Rudefors
- The Noise Of Time. A novel by Julian Barnes
- Haunted. A novel by Chuck Palahniuk
- Hangsaman. A novel by Shirley Jackson
- Little Night. A novel by Luanne Rice
- What Belongs To You. A novel by Garth Greenwell
- The Hungry Girls and other stories by Patricia Eakins
- The Lemon Orchard. A novel by Luanne Rice
- Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
- At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
- The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
- My Name Is Lucy Barton. Novel by Elizabeth Strout
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- In Another Country. Selected short stories by David Constantine
- Brothers. The Hidden History Of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot
- Eileen. A novel by Ottessa Moshfegh
- A Wailing Of a Town. An oral history of San Pedro Punk and more 1977-1985 by Craig Ibarra
- The Devil's Chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government / David Talbot
- In Bed With Gore Vidal by Tim Teeman
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Palo Alto Stories by James Franco
- A Drink Before the War. A novel by Dennis Lehane
- Empire Of Self. A Life Of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini.
- The Heart Goes Last. A novel by Margaret Atwood
- The Hour Of Sunlight. One Palestinian's journey from prisoner to peacemaker, by Sami Al Jundi and Jen marlowe
- Beautiful You. A novel by Chuck Palahniuk
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His years Of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- Wind/Pinball Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
- Accidental Genius. How John Cassavetes invented the American independent film, by Marshall Fine
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
- Stone Mattress. Nine Wicked Tales by Margaret Atwood
- Roseanna, By Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
- The Secret Place. A novel by Tara French
- John, by Cynthia Lennon
- Bird By Bird. Some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott
- Hard Laughter. A novel by Anne Lamott
- The Breaks. A novel by Richard Price.
- The Master of Petersburg. A novel by J.M. Coetzee
- Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
- The Homecoming of Samuel Lake. A novel by Jenny Wingfield
- The Wanderers, by Richard Price
- Dodger, by Terry Pratchett
- The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid
- The Weight Of Water. A novel by Anita Shreve
- The Skeleton Road. A novel by Val McDermid
- The Line Of Beauty. A novel by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Mocking bird Next Door. Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
- Rescue. A novel byAnita Shreve
- Nora Webster. A novel by Colm Tóibín
- The Divorce Party. A novel by Laura Dave
- Lucky Us. A novel by Amy Bloom
- The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher. Stories by Hilary Mantel
- The Safe Place. A novel by Tana French
- After Everything. A novel by Suellen Dainty
- Between Friends. Stories by Amos Oz
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Childhood Of Jesus. A novel by J.M. Coetzee
- Broken Harbor. A novel by Tana French
- The Likeness. A novel by Tana French
- The Childhood Of Jesus. A novel by J.M. Coetzee
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Voice Is All. The Lonely Victory Of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
- The Unwitting. A novel by Ellen Feldman
- The Fourth Wall. A novel by Michael Alton Gottlieb
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
- Martin and John. A novel by Dale Peck
- The Secrets Of Mary Bowser. A novel by Lois Leveen
- Afterwords. Letters On the Death Of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Sybil Oldfield
- Nine Stories. J.D. Salinger
- The Southern Woman. Stories by Elizabeth Spencer
- Daughter Of the King.Growing Up in Gangland by Sandra Lansky and William Stadiem
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. J.D. Salinger
- The Catcher In the Rye. J.D. Salinger
- The Sociopath Next Door. Martha Stout
- A Cup Of Tea. A novel of 1917 by Amy Ephron
- The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
- The Moon Of Innocence by Uke Jackson
- The Holocaust Kid by Sonia Pilcer
- J.D. Salinger Life by Kenneth Slawenski
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End Of the World by Haruki Murakami
- Lab 257. The disturbing story of the government's Secret Plum Island germ laboratory. By Michael Carroll Christopher
- The Man From Beijing. A novel by Henning Mankell
- The Wasp Factory. A novel by Iain Banks
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A novel by Mohsin Hamid
- New Ways To Kill Your Mother: Writers and their families by Colm Tóibín
- A Visit From the Goon Squad. Novel by Jennifer Egan
- We Live In Water. Stories by Jess Walter
- The Stand. Complete and uncut edition by Stephen King
- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
- Princess Noire. The tumultuous reign of Nina Simone. By Nadine Cohodas.
- Italian Shoes. A novel by Henning Mankell
- Blaze. A novel by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King
- The Rabbit Factory. A novel by Larry Brown
- Gone Girl. A novel by Gillian Flynn
- Less Than Angels. A novel by Barbara Pym
- Everything You Know by Zoë Heller
- End In Tears by Ruth Rendell
- What Was She Thinking? (Notes on a scandal) by Zoë Heller
- We Are Taking Only What We Need. Stories by Stephanie Powell Watts
- The Believers. A novel by Zoë Heller
- Excellent Women. A novel by Barbara Pym
- The Savage City. Race, Murder, and a Generation On the Edge by T.J. English
- New York Stories. Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
- Making Toast.A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Stories by Wells Tower
- Final Justice. The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried For Murder, by Steven Naifeh Smith and Gregory White Smith.
- The Innocent Man. Murder and Justice in a Small Town, by John Grisham
- Jackson Pollock. An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- Seek My Face. A novel by John Updike
- Trouble. A novel by Kate Christensen
- The Astral. A novel by Kate Christensen
- The President. A novel by Georges Simenon.
- Tropic Moon. A novel by Georges Simenon
- The Widow. A novel by Georges Simenon
- The Strangers In the House. A novel by Georges Simenon
- Pulse. Stories by Julian Barnes
- The Mayor of MacDougal Street. A memoir by Dave Van Ronk with Elijah Wald
- The Angry Buddhist. A novel by Seth Greenland
- The Furies. A novel by Janet Hobhouse
- The Art Of Racing In the Rain. A novel by Garth Stein
- The Human Fly and other stories by T.C. Boyle
- Monsieur Pain, by Roberto Bolaño
- Why Orwell Matters, by Christopher Hitchens
- Van Gogh. The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- The Sense Of An Ending. A novel by Julian Barnes
- The End Of Normal. A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life. Stephanie Madoff Mack
- Red Lights. By George Simenon
- Knockemstiff. Stories by Donald Ray Pollock
- The Devil All the Time. A novel by Donald Ray Pollock
- Down and Out In Paris and London by George Orwell
- The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
- Jane Jacobs Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
- This Is Not Your City. Stories by Caitlin Horrocks
- A Good Hard Look. A novel by Ann Napolitano
- Tell All. By Chuck Palahnluk
- The Art Fair. A novel by David Lipsky
- Leaving Van Gogh. A novel by Carol Wallace
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. A road trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
- Apathy For the Devil; a 70s memoir by Nick Kent
- Writing Treatments That Sell: How To Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry. By Kenneth Atchity and Ch-Li Wong
- Nothing That Meets the Eye. The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Hghsmith
- The Price Of Salt. A novel by Patricia Highsmith
- The Talented Miss Highsmith. The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
- The Death and Life Of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Housekeeping. A novel by Marilynne Robinson
- The Lost Art Of Reading. Why books matter in a distracted time by David L. Ulin
- What I TalkAbout WhenI Talk About Running. A memoir by Haruki Murakami
- Auntie Mame. An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
- The Empty Family. Stories by Colm Tóibín
- Strange Fruit. A novel by Lillian Smith
- Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n Drugs 'n Rock n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
- Everyman, by Philip Roth
- The Humbling by Philip Roth
- The Buddha and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar
- The Elephant Vanishes. Stories by Haruki Murakami
- Over the Rainbow? Hardly. Collected short seizures by Chandler Brossard
- Nemesis, by Philip Roth
- The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin
- The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
- The Habit Of Being. Letters of Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor. The Complete Stories
- A Recent Martyr. A novel by Valerie Martin
- Flannery. A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Giooch
- The Confessions Of Edward Day. A novel by Valerie Martin
- A Deadly Secret. The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst by Matt Birkbeck
- The Distinguished Guest. A novel by Sue Miller
- Almost There. The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
- The Lake Shore Limited. A novel by Sue Miller
- Waiting To Die. Poems and Short Stories by Lawrence Ghana Hayes
- The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
- How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
- Antwerp. A novel by Robert Bolaño
- Watermark. Essays by Joseph Brodsky
- Mr. Peanut. A novel by Adam Ross
- How Shall I Tell the Dog?: And Other Final Musings by Miles Kington
- black swan green. A novel by David Mitchell
- The Shallows. What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr
- Field Notes On Democracy; Listening To the Grasshoppers. Essays by Arundhati Roy
- The Sea. A novel by John Banville
- The Visitor. A novel by Maeve Brennan
- The Springs Of Affection. Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
- The Long-Winded Lady. Notes from the New Yorker by Maeve Brennan.
- Green Witch. A novel by Alice Hoffman
- Here On Earth. A novel by Alice Hoffman
- Fall River Dreams. A Team's quest for glory—a town's search for its soul by Bill Reynolds
- War Talk by Arundhati Roy
- The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
- When You Ae Engulfed In Flames. By David Sedaris
- A Fine & Private Place. By Peter S. Beagle
- The Mole People. Life In the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth
- The Uncommon Reader. A novella by Alan Bennett
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. Stories by Maile Meloy
- Burning Your Own by Glenn Patterson
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- Lit. A memoir by Mary Karr
- Beneath The Neon; Life and Death in the Tunnels Of Las Vegas. By Matthew O'Brien. Photos by Danny Mollohan
- The Uncommon Reader. A novella by Alan Bennett
- The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Felix Holt the Radical. A novel by George Eliot
- Hollywood Animal. A memoir by Joe Eszterhas
- The Blackwater Lightship. A novel by Colm Toíbin
- Thelonious Monk. The Life and Times of an American Original. A biography by Robin D.G. Kelley
- A Good School. A novel by Richard Yates
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Why we need a green revolution—and how it can renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
- In Praise Of Slowness. How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed by Carl Honoré
- The International. A novel by Glenn Patterson
- Half Broke Horses. A true life novel by Jeannette Walls
- The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico. Illustrated by Angela Barrett
- The Drunkard's Walk. How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Damage. A novel by Josephine Hart
- Night and Day, a novel by Virginia Woolf
- A Paradise Built In Hell. The extraordinary communities that arise in disaster, by Rebecca Solnit
- Rhyming Life & Death. A novel by Amos Oz
- Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff by Andrew Kirtzman
- Buffalo Lockjaw. A novel by Greg James
- The Glass Castle. A memoir by Jeannette Walls
- Beyond Black. A novel by Hilary Mantel
- Disturbing the Peace. A novel by Richard Yates
- Netherland. A novel by Joseph O'Neill
- Knots. A novel by Nuruddin Farah
- Cold Spring Harbor. A novel by Richard Yates
- This Is Burning Man. Changing the world through art cars, bone towers, Danger Ranger,smut shacks, fire cannons, Glitter Camp, fighting robots, exploding men, princess warriors, pulsing soundscapes, neon skies, metal dragons, and Dr. Megavolt—the rise of the new American underground. By Brian Doherty
- The Collected Short Stories of Richard Yates. Introduction by Richard Russo
- Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman. A biography by Candace Falk
- Firstborn. Poems by Louise Glück
- Southern Horrors and Other Writings. The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
- Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
- Mrs. Astor Regrets. The hidden betrayals of a family beyond reproach by Meryl Gordon
- Conversations With Capote by Lawrence Grobel
- Vanessa and Virginia. A novel by Susan Sellers
- Blue Diary. A novel by Alice Hoffman
- The Easter Parade. A novel by Richard Yates
- The Thing Around Your Neck. Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Tragic Honesty. The life and work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
- Half In Love. Stories by Maile Meloy
- The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.
- Strangers. A novel by Anita Brookner
- Skylight Confessions. A novel by Alice Hoffman
- This Land Is Their Land; reports from a divided nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Brooklyn. A novel by Colm Tóibín
- Waltz With Bashir; a Lebanon War Story. A graphic novel by Ari Folman and David Polonsky
- The Healing Touch For Cats by Dr. Michael W. Fox
- Dear Genius…A memoir Of My Life With Truman Capote by Jack Dunphy
- Crime and Punishment In America. Why the solutions to America's most stubborn social crisis have not worked—and what will. By Elliott Currie
- Capote: a biography by Gerald Clarke
- Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A. by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- The Song Is You, a novel by Arthur Phillips
- The Story of the Night, a novel by Colm Tóibín
- How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerney
- Lockdown America: Police and prisons in the age of crisis by Christian Parenti
- We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
- The Irish Famine; a documentary by Colm Tóibín and Diarmaid Ferriter
- A Saint On Death Row; The Story of Dominique Green by Thomas Cahill
- Flannery: A Life Of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch
- The Foreign Legion by Clarice Lispector. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
- Family Ties by Clarice Lispector. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
- The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
- Murder Chez Proust by Estelle Monbrun.
- Assata; an autobiography by Assata Shakur aka Joanne Chesimard; member of the Black Liberation Army given political asylum in Cuba.
- Born Standing Up: a comic's life by Steve Martin
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Yellow Wind by David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman.
- The Road To Nowhere; unpublished manuscript by Simon Parker.
- Angela Davis; an Autobiography
- Mrs. Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
- Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles
2 comments:
Oh my comment just disappeared?
I like the picture too!!!!!
Just wondering if you wouldn't mind picking up some of those squirrel crisps and bringing them back home on your next trip over the pond. Given the state of our economy, and the appetites of the Bernie Madoff's of the world, there are some gift baskets I'd like to be making up and sending to jail.
As for Brill's walking workshop, just stay away from everything with a thin layer of brown attached to it.
Post a Comment