Over 20 years ago, dead broke, divorced, and living in rent-controlled Santa Monica, CA I started making pilgrimages to the Santa Ynez...

In 1999 I wrote a novel titled Sideways. It would take another five years before it became the hit, award-winning film of the same title....

Since moving to the city of Napa a little over a year ago I have been a frequent visitor at the Vintners Collective in downtown Napa....

Sideways came out nearly 20 years ago.  I haven't seen Paul Giamatti, my alter ego Miles Raymond – I write autobiographically in the...

I haven’t had a pet since I was a kid, and that was some decades ago. Kate, the archivist who processed my papers, knowing I lived a...

Twelve years ago I premiered/workshopped my Sideways play (a theatrical adaptation of my novel written by me) at the tiny 50-seat Ruskin...

This weekend I fly to Riga, Latvia to attend the premiere of my Sideways play at the New Riga Theatre. A 250-seat theater sold out 11...

The above photo is of the Vintners Collective in downtown Napa. Formerly a brewery, then a Chinese laundry, this historic building is...