FICTION
 

WHEN ANNIE FELL OFF THE MOUNTAIN she
didn't make a sound. We were hiking deep in the woods and had stopped at a waterfall. Annie, in typical fashion, decided to scale the nearly vertical rocks to enjoy the view. After clambering all the way up, she stood and gazed off the mountain. I remember how small she looked against the boulders, this woman who loomed so large in my life at that time ...

Read the love story of a youg couple's search for an abortion before Roe V. Wade

SOCIAL COMMENTARY

"HELLO,, MY NAME IS MARTIN AND I'M A TAXAHOLIC" begins this tongue-in-cheek "confession" of a man who abandons
the town he loves, and where he lived for
20 years, because property taxes are too high. It's a humorous -- and pointed -- send-up
of the tax system in America, especially how local taxes are levied by a patchwork
quilt of small towns.

Read Confessions of a Taxaholic, a great example of using humor to make a point 

HUMOR AND SATIRE

NOW THAT THE NEW YORK LITERARY REVIEW
(formerly Etheria) has ceased
publication,  I feel free to reveal the true story behind its life and death, a story that
will surely astonish the legions of fans
NYLR (formerly Etheria) attracted in its brief
but dazzling moment in the literary sun.
When I was just another aspiring writer ...

Read how a struggling writer wins fame and fortune creating a magazine that doesn't exist

POETRY
(Just published in Lips magazine)

A POEM ABOUT SEX

NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION
LET ME SAY that this poem thinks it's about sex
But it's really about itself
It's a poem, staring in the mirror
studying its eyes to find out who it is
It sits here on the page pretending
it just happens to be there
but of course it got all dolled up for you  ...

Read what a poem has in common with a visit to a singles bar 

PERSONAL ESSAY

WHEN MY PARENTS RETIRED TO FLORIDA,  my father fulfilled a lifelong dream: he learned to ride a bicycle. Every morning he and other men from the condo would pedal off over the flat, Florida landscape, unfurling like a series of flags along the dirt roads that wound through empty fields and brooding palms ...
 

Read The Bicycle Club, a meditation on summer, fathers, and the meaning of life


 

                          PREVIOUS WORK

THE NOVEL  MY WIFE'S LAST LOVER, is the moving tale of the  the power struggle and longing for safety that converge in a modern marriage. It tells of a man who loves his wife deeply yet leaves her, because her beauty and success bring up felings of inadequacy. With heartbreaking candor and bittersweet humor, Golan dramatizes the being a man today, so different from what it was a generation ago.

Read chapter 1 of My Wife's Last Lover
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