T V Locicero: 16 books

In the spring of 1972, T.V. LoCicero finished a book-length manuscript entitled Joann D’Ark and the Prince Of Detroit and eventually gave his only remaining copy to a University of Michigan professor who had encouraged him to write it. Soon thereafter the author lost touch with his friend the professor,...

Camie at 14 is a wild Detroit street girl on the run from an abusive suburban home. In the underbelly parlance of Motown, she is a babytrick and ready to do anything to survive. Ella is a beautiful black attorney and former cop, who finds herself accused of the murder of a wealthy businessman she...

From Jessica, this tale’s eccentric teller: “Only once in a great while, like maybe every couple years, it would decide to make a flower, a blue and yellow thing I admit was kind of pretty. But you never knew when it was going to happen, and most of the time it didn’t, and most of the...

“…pacy, gripping…about love grown monstrous and out of control”—Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room “…not for the literary faint of heart…a powerful engaging story...”—Charlene Mabie-Gamble, Literary R&R "…very exciting. I was hooked by the time...

With the death of an old friend, Hall of Fame athlete Dave DeBusschere on a street in Manhattan, I found myself ruminating on the strange uses we make of the relentless world of sport. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The others include the stories A Round...

His thumbs, his fingernails—his life, for Chrissake—everything was riding on the outcome of his son’s last Little League game. But in a fractured moral universe, Dad was holding the wrong end of the stick. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The others...

A few decades back, when I was divorced, broke and living in a cramped abode fashioned from a two-car garage, the job promised good money and flexible hours. All I had to do was get through a two-day training session. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The...

This is a multifaceted treat: a sparkling collection of T.V. LoCicero’s best short fiction and non-fiction penned over the past five decades—14 stories, memoirs, essays and occasional pieces that are by turns brilliant, hilarious, moving and insightful. Together they offer a wonderful array of...

For a time in their dating-wars romance, she seemed too good to be true—bright, witty, gorgeous and erotic. Finally when it became clear that she was real—and adored him—there was just this one little problem. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The others...

It was only a temporary job the summer before graduate school, but when the young fellow clerking at a public course hooked up with an old black caddie, their match became one of the most unusual rounds in the colorful history of golf. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published...

Every week on Friday Martha Parker came to clean Leda Palmieri’s Grosse Pointe home. But this Friday was different. Mrs. Palmieri did not want to do this but knew she must. After all, that narrow slice of life they shared turned on the color of help. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter...

In this lively, expansive and generous interview, the greatest crime novelist of our time, Elmore “Dutch” Leonard, talks about everything from the essence and appeal of his stories, to why he writes in longhand, to the finer points of robbing a bank. WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT DUTCH ON...

In Grosse Pointe, a bastion of American privilege, it’s the summer before our rebellious 1960s and a pivotal moment for 19-year-old Val. Bright, lovely and annoyed with traditional gender roles, she’s estranged from her housebound mother, battling with her conventional sister, and deeply attached...

Hot-shot adman and womanizer Tony Rice is steamed. His high-powered Manhattan agency has bought into a dubious Time Magazine premise that Americans are yearning for the simple life and a return to small town values. So Tony and a cadre of staffers are sent on a secret mission to do six weeks of undercover...