TRUE CRIME IS MESSY by Robert Lopresti Last week I wrote about a theft that our library experienced. This week, if you can stand a little more, I’m going to write about some of the reactions to the experience. Let’s start with the obvious. The classic phrase about being robbed is “I feel violated.” Yeah, […]

WHEN MAPS GET LOST by Robert Lopresti If you find yourself within reach of the current (April) issue of Smithsonian Magazine, open to page 98 and you will find a picture of yours truly. No, it’s not an article about living fossils, wise guy. “To Catch a Thief,” by Steve Twomey, is about people who […]

BOOK ‘EM by Robert Lopresti At a music event last month someone asked me to sing one of my songs. Well, that was nice, and thanks for the compliment, but I couldn’t do it. The requester had been present five years ago at one of the only two times I have done performed that song […]

DEPARTMENT OF ODDER SOCKS by Robert Lopresti If you read only one federal court appellate decision this month (yeah, I know, you forgot your new year resolution to read two a week, didn’t you?) make it this one. It tells the fascinating story of four college students who came up with the caper of a […]

ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS by Robert Lopresti Before we begin this exciting blog entry we thought you might want to know a little bit about those who made it possible. If you don’t want to, please don’t tell us. It would break our hearts. RICHARD SPARTACUS wrote eight bestselling thrillers about serial killers before the meds […]

THE COLLECTED NOTEBOOK OF ROBERT LOPRESTI by Robert Lopresti A major milestone passed at my house this week. (And none of you sent flowers or a card… don’t think I didn’t notice.) Specifically, I finished a new pocket notebook and started a new one. And by the way, I can’t believe how hard it was […]

JUST ANOTHER CRITIC? by Rob Lopresti Back when a certain actor was president of the United States I had a story published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. An acquaintance of mine read the story, told me he liked it, but bragged that he had seen the surprise ending coming because of the foreshadowing I had […]