Jane Austen – Michael A. Kahn

A Kinky Salute to the 2023 Public Domain Day. Sorry, Winnie!

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Michael Kahn

At the beginning of each year I post a blog on my law firm’s website welcoming the annual Public Domain Day, which occurs on January 1st and ushers dozens and dozens of novels, songs, and other creative works into the public domain. The copyrights in those works, first published 95 years ago, are now in…

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Jay Gatsby and Notorious B.I.G.: A Match Made in Baseball Heaven

Posted on May 8, 2021May 10, 2021 by Michael Kahn

Ah, baseball season has arrived! And with it, the joy of the walk-up song. For the true baseball fans among us, name a favorite player and you can name his walk-up song. Same for your team’s closer (whose walk-up song is known as the “entrance song”). Including even those greats who’ve retired. What Yankees fan, when…

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A Special Heaven for Authors: My Fantasy

Posted on March 22, 2020April 23, 2020 by Michael Kahn

I’ve been thinking about the afterlife lately. Not mine, though at age of 67 I know I am closer to my end than my beginning. But, to quote Marcus Aurelius, “It is not death a man should fear but he should fear never having to live.” So I try focus on the living part. But…

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A Truly Challenging Question for Me (and You)

Posted on August 1, 2017February 16, 2019 by Michael Kahn

I received an email from the folks at Goodreads asking for me to answer the following question: “If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?” What a great question! And one you should ask yourself as well. Here’s how I answered it: I started…

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A Real Time Machine

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Michael Kahn

For the first time in my writing career, I had to step into a time machine in order to write my next novel, The Sirena Quest. Let me explain. Most novels, from those on the bestseller list to the classics, are written in the author’s “now.” In the same way that Gone Girl takes place…

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My Favorite Narrators (Part 5 of 5)

Posted on November 11, 2013November 16, 2013 by Michael Kahn

So here I am, finally, down to the last of my 5 favorite narrators. Back when I started this list with Huck Finn, I had no idea who the other four would be. And now that I’ve reached my last one, I’ve been sifting wildly through the remaining possibilities. The prior four have all been…

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