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Throughout Eric’s perpetual vicissitudes there has been one constant: he has been a committed writer of novels, short fiction, essays, journalism, art criticism, poetry, screenplays, and teleplays. Eric’s prose has been published in The Village Voice, Newsday, Art News, The Albuquerque Journal, and Art Speak, while his poetry has been printed in Poetry Digest, The Literary Review, Factions, and the Star. Eric has written seven novels, a cycle of novellas, two collections of short fiction, several one-act plays, and many, many essays. He has performed excerpts from his fiction and various “radio essays” on the program, “Anything Goes!” WNYE-FM, a local PBS affiliate and has also read his poetry at many Barnes and Noble and Borders open mics.

Beautiful Riddle was written as, slowly, Pierre recounted to Bérénice the events of the ten years he had spent by Suzy’s side. "It was like pulling teeth," she says. "Getting Pitou to open his heart was a painful, if cathartic, experience. Having watched him as he spoke, I feel certain that this is the true story of what happened to them.... at least, to the extent of Robert Evan's definition of 'the truth.' Bob once said: 'There are three sides to every story: my side, your side and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.' I thought of that as I wrote.

Beautiful Riddle was written as, slowly, Pierre recounted to Bérénice the events of the ten years he had spent by Suzy’s side. "It was like pulling teeth," she says. "Getting Pitou to open his heart was a painful, if cathartic, experience. Having watched him as he spoke, I feel certain that this is the true story of what happened to them.... at least, to the extent of Robert Evan's definition of 'the truth.' Bob once said: 'There are three sides to every story: my side, your side and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.' I thought of that as I wrote.”