CON GAMES: Historical Fiction You Can’t Make Up
Suggested reading: THOMAS EDISON MEETS HIS BASTARD SON, a short story from the BOOK O’KELLS. Suggested listening: DEARBORN audio short story from the novel NATURE OF THE BEAST from the BOOK OF O’KELLS. [...]
CON GAMES: Goodbye Blank Page, Hello Writing 2.0
A Con Games Column I feel lucky because I did most of my writing before artificial intelligence (AI) became the Headless Horseman heedless of humankind. Pre-Chatbot, the ink-stained wretch had no choice but to write [...]
CON GAMES: O Canada, Of Thee We Sing
Why can't we be more like Canada? They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them [...]
CON GAMES: Getting Facebooked
A Con Games blast from the past: The virtual world can get a little too real some days, and one of those days came last week when a couple I know--one-half of the couple to [...]
CON GAMES: The Good Guy Gap In Movies, TV
EAST HAMPTON, NY—Sayonara. Out of here. Later for you, Dude. Put a fork in it, folks: the Good Guy in film and television is nowhere to be found in most media markets global and domestic. [...]
CON GAMES: Saints Be Praised
CON GAMES: SAINTS BE PRAISED By Michael Conniff Copyright (C) 2020 All Rights Reserved Time to break my favorite rules for writing fiction: never complain, never explain. This is the exception to those rules. [...]
CON GAMES: I’m Proud To Be An American From New York
By Michael Conniff I awoke this morning feeling like I’ve never felt before about being an American—and a New Yorker, in that order—and I wanted to share why I feel so proud. Oh say [...]
CON GAMES: Where Have You Gone, Rick Pitino?
Sports were in the air everywhere when I was a kid. My family lived on Stratton Road in New Rochelle, New York, for five years in the 1960s, next door to Claude Harmon, the golf [...]