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“Olaf Kroneman’s pulverizing novel, DETROIT HEROIC, invites comparison to the subtitle of THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT by Norman Mailer: “History as a Novel … the Novel as History.”   Before the 1970 Kent State massacre or Chicago’s violent mayhem in ’68, the insurrection in Detroit in 1967 reduced America’s Motor City to ashes and…

“Olaf Kroneman’s pulverizing novel, DETROIT HEROIC, invites comparison to the subtitle of THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT by Norman Mailer: “History as a Novel … the Novel as History.”   Before the 1970 Kent State massacre or Chicago’s violent mayhem in ’68, the insurrection in Detroit in 1967 reduced America’s Motor City to ashes and…

This is the cover of my debut novel, Detroit Heroic to be released in September 2026 published by Heliotrope Press. The novel describes many themes of the late 1960’s. Racism, police brutality, urban unrest, an unwanted foreign war complete with nightly body counts. One of the core themes is the background and circumstances leading to…

I have decided on this to be the cover of my novel, “Detroit Heroic.” It is the story of a young doctor trying to survive in the City Hospital of Detroit in 1968. Current events are catastrophic but 1968 was apocalyptic. The novel is to be published by Heliotrope Press. The launch date is September…

book signing available on AMAZON

My car was bashed in. My trunk won’t close. No note was left. It was parked in the doctor’s parking lot.

The op/ed by Dr. Michael Segal, “What We Don’t Know About Tylenol and Autism,” (WSJ September 27-28) raises the possibility that a genetic predisposition unrelated to the use of Tylenol may be the cause.  He opines that women with a genetic makeup causing a greater sensitivity to pain may use Tylenol more frequently, but Tylenol…