One of my favorite Dylan performances — that’s him on piano, too . . .

I wrote a short story inspired by this song:

Available in this collection — Fourteen Western Stories.

Via Laura Wagner . . .

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I’m not getting nostalgic or anything, but the days of ’49 — damn . . . those days . . .

Oh, my goodness.

The paperback edition of my book Fourteen Western Stories is not selling very well, so I’ve raised the price to $10.99, because I’d rather have it not sell at a relatively high price than not sell at a bargain price.  Amazon, however, is discounting the new price by 20%, to $8.79, which is only $1.80 more than the old price.  And so it goes.

The Kindle edition of the book continues to sell well at $2.99. On Sunday and Monday, May 26th and 27th, I’ll be offering it at a special Memorial Day price — nothing! That’s right, for two days it will be downloadable for free! You can read it on a Kindle, of course, but also on Amazon’s free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices.

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When I was writing my Western stories I felt fit and optimistic — all those big skies and wide open spaces, all that moving around on horseback, cheered me up, even when the stories were grim. Now, writing about the dark underbelly of Los Angeles in 1954, I feel shabby and paranoid, unhealthy and in constant need of a drink. I hope this one will go quickly, before I need rehab.

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Via Human Faced Dog . . .

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Photographed by William Claxton.

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