I Think There's A General

To Write More From Memory And To Be More Creative - I Think - Because I Am Still Writing About Los Angeles But I Can't Walk Out My Door And Immediately Drive To Places I Am Writing About. So I Think It Has Been A Very Good Change For Me After 11 Books To Start Writing This Way.

The Characters I Write About Are Very Internal.

As A Bassist He Could Never Really Be A Sideman. He Was Always The Anchor. He Drove The Beat. Even If It Was Behind Miles Davis'a Horn.

I'm A Disciple Of Raymond Chandler, Who Said In His Essays That There's A Quality Of Redemption In Anything That Can Be Called Art.

A Newspaper Is The Center Of A Community, It's One Of The Tent Poles Of The Community, And That's Not Going To Be Replaced By Web Sites And Blogs.