With 50% of Palm Spring’s population gay, (according to my yoga teacher yesterday) and the other 50% geriatric, I was obviously going to fit in well in this town.  But Palm Springs is more than just a strip of shops and restaurants with a unique water-misting air-cooling device for diners who want to sit outside [...]

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So here I am in Palm Springs, where I’m doing some research for my new novel.  It’s a hard job but somebody’s got to do it.  And it occurs to me that if you tell anyone you’re going to Palm Springs there’s a huge barrage of reactions, mostly very much against, apart from one of [...]

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