Tod Goldberg is the author of eleven books, including the novel Living Dead Girl (Soho Press), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the popular Burn Notice series (Penguin), and two collections of short stories, Simplify (Other Voices Books) and Other Resort Cities (Other Voices Books). He directs the Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside.
"The simple truth of having lived in the desert for most of my life [is that] unprepared people don’t 'go missing' in the desert in the middle of summer. What happens is that they die."
I’ve long been of the opinion that there are exactly two places where it’s acceptable to wear a bow tie: when wearing a tuxedo at a designated black tie event…