James J. Patterson

  • Patterson & Anna Nicole!

    Patterson In Stage Reading Thursday, May 21, 7:00 p.m.: Rose Solari will perform in a staged reading of Anna Nicole, a play by Grace Cavalieri based on the life of the late model/celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, at The Writer’s Center Al Lefcowitz Theater. The other actors are Jim Gagne, Ellen Cole, and Kenneth Flynn. Patterson

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  • Bermuda Shorts

    Essays from The Capital of the Empire Bermuda Shorts are more than just a garment, for James J Patterson political satirist, musician, songwriter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist, Bermuda Shorts are a state of mind. “Bermuda Shorts, as you know, are casual formal wear, or, if you prefer, formal casual wear. And that’s the approach I

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  • Solving DC’s Football Problem

    Solving DC’s Football Problem   Dan Snyder should move the Redskins to Los Angeles where plans to build a new stadium for an NFL team that is yet to be, are already underway. Knowing our creepy little owner’s affection for movie stars and his new found desire to market his team to out-of-town fans, moving

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  • Welcome to Good Books, Well Made

    We believe that there is no reason a small press can’t publish books that compete on the shelf with the best that the big houses have to offer. Welcome to Good Books, Well Made James J. Patterson, Co-Founder, ASP. I suppose the last straw for me was when Eric Foner’s masterpiece, Tom Paine, and Revolutionary

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  • Influences and Ambitions

    On Writing Roughnecks I grew up at a time when something called “The Great American Novel” was still revered, aspired to, attempted. Steinbeck, Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Harper Lee, and poets like Whitman, Dickenson, Sandberg, and Frost had taken their art into the heart of America and told us something about ourselves. They certainly were following

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