Reminiscences of Spain/Recuerdos de España
(University of Valencia Press, 2011)

In this book I discuss my long relationship with Spain, dating back to four years spent with the American Embassy in Madrid as a cultural attache. Stories include "A Day in Madrid with Martin Luther King," "How I Managed to Avoid Shaking Hands With Francisco Franco," and "The Bombs and the Casa Americana," which focuses on the day the United States inadvertently dropped four unarmed nuclear bombs on a little Spanish town, the international crisis that ensued, and how, as a result,  I became director of the American cultural center in Madrid.

Blueberry Hill  (In Progress)

A memoir of my military service as a young medic working in a locked psychiatric ward with Navy and Marine mental patients in Japan. The ward’s nickname was “Blueberry Hill” because Fats Domino’s song, so in contrast to what was going on in that hellish place, played incessantly in the ward. It was peacetime. With no one to shoot, people in the military began shooting themselves and each other. Or trying to. It was also a very dangerous place to work. I came close to being murdered twice. I was also partly responsible for the death of a patient which is something I shall always regret. There was also a riotous visit to the ward by Cardinal Spellman of New York. A mixture of tragedy and comedy taking place a decade or so after World War II, when “Made in Japan” was still a joke.

Married to Hitler  (In Progress)

This novel concerns a Jewish man and his inability to come to terms with modern Germany until  he falls in love with a German woman when they meet at the Grand Canyon.

The 'Married to Hitler' title refers to the extent to which, because of the Holocaust, he is "married," or perhaps glued to—seemingly unable to separate himself from—the past.