Tales Of The Patriarchs

Tales of the Patriarchs is a novel about the early days of Hollywood when a handful of dreamers created a new art form in a desert by the sea, a fabulist retelling of the mythic tales of the silent film era when the original sins of Hollywood became the folk bible of a new American religion.

Filled with the romance, black comedy and pornography of the human soul, Tales of the Patriarchs explores the truths, the legends and the lies behind the lives of the patriarchs who created Hollywood. If Isaac Bashevis Singer and F. Scott Fitzgerald had lunch at Schwabs Drugstore and scribbled a 500 page deal memo on the back of a napkin, it might be this book.

Tales Of The Patriarchs is available at Amazon.com in paperback and kindle versions.

Prologue (an excerpt)

Herr Direktor (an excerpt)

Storm Still

Stephan Wilder is a feckless old rogue of an actor, an ever-recovering alcoholic actor who has very little left in his ramshackle life except his memories of a wastrel career on the stage and a tiny apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. But he has been offered the role of King Lear at a small but prestigious theatre in Palm Beach, Florida. At the height of hurricane season.

Chapter One

Notes For A Theory OfThe Chaos At The Heart Of Things

Notes For A Theory Of The Chaos At The Heart Of Things is a derelict black comedy about love, money, genius and madness set in the rarefied worlds of Wall Street and Westchester County, NY, and on the beat streets of the Lower East Side.

Howie's On Charlie (an excerpt)

Sex With Your Ex (an excerpt)

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Gideon Fine was a Wall Street quant, a mathematical genius with a head full of software he used to conquer the Financial District and make himself rich. Then he lost everything: his fortune, his good name, his beautiful voracious wife, his brilliant skittish teenage son, the trophy house in Katonah, his dying father’s respect. All he has left is his beat-up Porsche and a notebook containing a stunningly original, deep mathematical proof with which he plans to win them all back. But there may be something seriously wrong with his proof. And there may be something seriously wrong with Gideon.

In Notes For A Theory Of The Chaos At The Heart Of Things, Gideon goes on a comic, heartbreaking journey of selfdiscovery that begins amid the wealth and privacy of Wall Street and Westchester and descends into the poverty and privation of New York’s Lower East Side, as he looks for the one true theorem that will tame the chaos in the financial markets, the chaos in his life, the chaos in his heart.

Narrated by five idiosyncratic New York voices, Gideon, his wife Mindy, his business partner Howie, his son Bobby and a Lower East Side vagrant with a tenuous grip on reality, Notes For A Theory Of The Chaos At The Heart Of Things tells the sad and funny tale of a man who lives on the border between genius and delusion, walking a fine line of sanity as he discovers the true cost of creativity and illumination.