The Evil that Banks Do

This book contains essays, short stories, and news analysis on banks, politics, train rides, grade school, and other issues. These essays were written during the two years leading up to the election of Barack Obama. A number of them were published on the Huffington Post, an online newspaper. The short stories were inspiration for the making of three short film scripts, two of which were produced.

Mostly these essays deal with the pressing issues of the times, a failing economy leading up to the September 2008 Wall Street crash, the politics of the 2008 presidential election, and other experiences, like dealing with my son's parent-teacher conference, being pushed to place him in a government funded program, and working at IndyMac Bank, one of the first casualties of the banking mortgage fiasco.

I sometimes use a colloquial style, like how a person would speak and not what might be considered a traditional literary style. I sometimes use phrases for sentences, and run on sentences. I like to break grammar and traditional literary rules, because it’s lots of fun. Besides, I’m a filmmaker and like to write dialog for interesting characters, and by saying this I can get away with typos, misused words, and grammar mistakes.