August 23, 2020
The thing about writing books is, it takes a long time. My Midnight Games sequel, The Medusa Deep is now scheduled for spring 2021 so I am working on a third book to make a trilogy. There have been...
View ArticleNovember 3, 2020
Wishing all the best to our friends in the U.S.A. on this pivotal day! If you need a bit of levity, Hamilton Public Library asked me to do a reading for their Virtual Storyteller series. I agreed...
View ArticleMarch 3, 2021
Is the pandemic state of suspended animation starting to thaw? I have accepted Scott Thomson’s kind offer to put the recording we made with Germaine Liu and John Oswald on Scott’s Bandcamp page. A...
View ArticleKirkus Reviews: January 2022
“Lee enhances his novel with references to the Lovecraft mythos [and] elements that smoothly tie into real-world events, including World War II. Nate’s no-nonsense attitude befits a worthy hero, but...
View ArticleDavid Lee in Pat and Skee
photo by Sally At this writing (March 2022), I’m having a great time (that’s me on the left) playing double bass with Chris Palmer on guitar, at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius in Sky Gilbert’s Pat and...
View ArticleStopping Time – in Italy
Excited to see an early book of mine, Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz (Véhicule 1999) in a new incarnation published by Quodlibet Chorus in Italy. “Liberare il tempo: Paul Bley...
View ArticleAn interview with Abdul Wadud; 43 years on
The New York Times recently did an article on the African American cellist Abdul Wadud (1947-2022) and I’m glad to say, linked it to an interview I did with Wadud for Coda Magazine in 1980. Thanks for...
View ArticleThe Great Outer Dark
There was a lot of positive response to my 2015 Lovecraftian sci-fi novel The Midnight Games, so I told the publisher I would make it the cornerstone of a trilogy. Easier said than done: I wasn’t able...
View ArticleNecronomiCon 2024
August 15-18 Maureen and I drove down to NecronomiCon Providence, a horror literature and film convention convened in Providence, Rhode Island, where now-famous (in some circles, infamous) author H.P....
View ArticleGhost Variables
In Hamilton, Ontario I play double bass and co-create music with our ensemble Ghost Variables: Gary Barwin and Connor Bennett reeds, Chris Palmer guitar, David Lee double bass and Mike Hansen...
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