When Good Stories Die
About Me
- Name: Paul Ciotti
- Location: Eagle Rock (Los Angeles), California, United States
I write articles, columns, books, very occasional screenplays and make amateur videos. I also maintain a dozen or so blog sites, some better than others.
Narrative Non-Fiction Reference Works
- Writing Resource List From the Poynter Institute
- The 3 R's of Creative Non-Fiction
- Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism
- You Can't Make This Stuff Up, by Lee Gutkind
My Own Narrative Non-Fiction Stories
- If It Happened Here
- Murder in the Math Department
- Love In Venice
- Why Did He Cut That Man's Leg Off?
- Two Tales of One City
- The Cop That Cried
- The Scud That Hit Greensburg
- Adrift on a Troubled Sea
- Mike Bradbury's Never Ending Obsession
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Beheading on Mt. Baldy
- Murder On The Last Turn
My Other Stories & Essays, listed by publication (see below)
Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine
- Harlan Ellison Chews Trees
- Bukowski Has Feelings Too
- How I First Sold My First Script To The Movies
- Michael Herr Likes Wine Just Fine
- Mr. Keck's Bequest
- Tom Boyle Likes To Write In The Rain
- The Man Who Didn't Write ET
- Tempest In a Toybox--the Stealth Fighter flap
- Lite Romance
- The Scud That Hit Greensburg
- Adrift on a Troubled Sea
- Mike Bradbury's Never Ending Obsession
- Alexander Family Murders
- Strangers In Our Strange Land
- Oil War II
- Finding the Titanic
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Cardinal Mahony
- Maurice Sendak
LA Weekly
- If It Happened Here
- Casa Real
- Love In Venice
- California Dying
- Paul Fussell on "Class"
- Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg?"
- Murder On The Last Turn
- Beheading on Mt. Baldy
New West (later California)
- Two Tales of One City
- Murder in the Math Department
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Doing Right By Dorothy
- Eric's Acting Class
- The Great Potato Menace
- Flo's Place
Daily News
- Trotting It Out and Tossing It About
- A Death In the Underpass--Another Reason Not to Tag
- Of Course We Watched the OJ Simpson Trial
- Fascistic Feminism and the Demonized Dad
- Growing Old in Los Angeles
- Barbarians Taking Over The City
- I Have Seen The Future And It Makes Me Sick
- Welfare is Like Feeding Stray Cats
- NASA Can't Send A Rocket to the Moon Anymore
- Dead Taggers Need to Get a Life
- The Day Reagan Was Shot
- Lemming Nation
LA Times View Section
- Forbidden City
- Armed and Wimpy
- Life in the Fantasy Lane
- Mickey Thompson Was A Road Burning Man (unpublished)
- Materialism and Its Discontents (unpublished)
- Battery Powered Drills
- How To Get Out Of A War Zone
- Psychics
- Cost of Christmas Decorations
Heterodoxy
- Kafka at Zzyzx
- Guru of Bilingualism
- The Opposition Really Hates Ward Connerly
- Clinton's War on the Navy
- Cheyenne Headdress
- Don Scott Killing
AirCal
Reason
San Francisco Magazine
Cato Institute
Mother Jones
San Jose Mercury Sunday Magazine
City Magazine
- The Things You Put Up With In Blimping Circles
- To Bud, With Love (From All The Bulls In Tracy)
- The Gay Lawyer And His Book Of Pansies