I miss Christopher Hitchens. Though we lived in the same neighborhood I never had the privilege of meeting him. Maybe that’s okay, sometimes the person can’t live up to the image we have of them. I was drawn to his writing–a wordsmith with few peers. Reading one of his essays was like hearing an infectious [...]

If you are a fiction writer, you should read this book. If you enjoy reading great writing, you should read this book. If you want to make your life more meaningful, you should read this book. Miller is working on a screenplay of his memoir Blue Like Jazz. The problem is that his life is [...]

  Dear Mr. O’Brien, I am one of the teachers to whom you were kind enough to provide a class set of books.  I wanted to write to you and let you know what a wonderful teaching tool “Elijah’s Coin” was in my classroom this year.  I designed and entire unit around the book for [...]

  Bullet Work, released March 22, 2011 has received numerous positive reviews. Here are links to two of the more recent reviews. Leslie Wright’s review in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and Elizabeth Breau’s review in ForeWord Magazine.   www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Book-Review-Bullet-Work-by-Steve-O-Brien-1320773.php http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/bullet-work/

How’s your title? Do you want a new one? Try this one on—Social Arbitrageur. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? What does it mean? What do I have to do? Well, let’s start with the concept of social entrepreneur. This is a person who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize and manage a [...]