by Brad Parks | Oct 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s the question every author dreads—and yet we can somehow never avoid it. At just about every event and book signing, we can see it come like a locomotive bearing down on us as we’re tied to the tracks. Where do you get your ideas? We loathe it because, most of the...
by Brad Parks | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m having this strangely melancholy feeling today. Late this morning, the City of Newark will host a ceremony launching the demolition of the Seth Boyden Housing Projects. Those of you who are close readers of my work will remember that Seth Boyden is mentioned in my...
by Brad Parks | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
With a headline like that one, you can assume I’ll be sharing a seamy secret about my chosen profession. Something confessional. Or perhaps scandalous. About how, much of the time, being an author means that you only work four hours out of every twenty-four; that you...
by Brad Parks | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Any industry is going to be defined—for better or for worse; wholly, or at least in part—by its leading brands. Ask people what they think of discount retailers, and they’ll probably grimace. Why? Because Wal-Mart has a history of unfair labor practices, of ruthlessly...
by Brad Parks | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Because I am a professional writer—a seasoned observer of the world scene, a sensitive reader of the zeitgeist, a pulse oximeter for the human condition—I know that what everyone needs right now is another reason why 2020 is a festering ulcer. Here, I will not be...
by BradP | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hi. Brad here. Elsewhere on this website, you will find a lot of professionally worded verbiage whose purpose is to impress you with my accomplishments. Either that, or a lot of silly stuff written by my interns. Not here. Here, it’s just me. Keeping it real. Book...
