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JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Author of
April Fool's Day: A Novel
THERE'S A CERTAIN THRILL in reading a young writer coming into his own. The nuances of style, the interplay of theme and narrative, the keen and sympathetic eye for character—all rendered new by a fresh voice and talent. Scott Nadelson's stories are bracing, lively, humorous, honest. A splendid debut.
EHUD HAVAZELET
Author of
Like Never Before
and
What Is It Then Between Us
The Greening of
Ben Brown
Michael Strelow
Fiction
272 pages
$15.95
ISBN 0-9716915-8-4
FINALIST, 2005 OREGON BOOK AWARD
MICHAEL STRELOW WEAVES THE STORY of a town and its mysteries in this debut novel. Ben Brown becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon, after he recovers from an electrocution that has not left him dead but has turned him green. He befriends 22 year-old Andrew James and together they unearth a chemical spill cover-up that forces the town to confront its demons and its citizens to choose sides. Strelow's lyrical prose and his talent for storytelling come together in this poetic and important first work that looks at how a town and the natural environment are inextricably linked.
The Greening of Ben Brown
will find itself in good company on the shelves between
Winesburg, Ohio
and
To Kill A Mockingbird
; readers of both will have a new story to cherish.
MICHAEL STRELOW HAS GIVEN northwest readers an amazing fable for our time and place featuring Ben Brown, a utility lineman who transforms into the Green Man following an industrial accident. Eco-Hero and prophet, the Green Man heads a cast of wonderful and zany characters who fixate over sundry items from filberts to hubcaps. A timely raid on a company producing heavy metals galvanizes Strelow's mythical East Leven as much as the Boston Tea Party rallied Boston. Fascinating, humorous and wise,
The Greening of Ben Brown
deserves its place on bookshelves along with other Northwest classics.
CRAIG LESLEY
Author of
Storm Riders
STRELOW RESONATES as both poet and storyteller. In creating inhabitants of a town, its central figure and a strong sense of place, he lays on description lavishly, almost breathlessly … The author lovingly invokes a particular brand of Pacific Northwest magic realism, a blend of fable, social realism, wry wisdom and irreverence that brings to mind Ken Kesey, Tom Robbins and the best elements of a low-key mystery.
HOLLY JOHNSON
The Oregonian
Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Wiley
Fiction
194 pages
$14.95
ISB N 0-9766311-3-X
WINNER, 1987 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
TEDDY MAKI WAS a Japanese- American jazz muscian from Los Angeles trapped in Tokyo with his band mate and friend, Jimmy Yakamoto, both of whom are drafted into the Japanese army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Thirty years later Maki is a big star on Japanese TV and wrestling with the guilt over Jimmy's death that he's been carrying since World War II.
This edition of
Soldiers in Hiding
includes both an introduction by Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka, and a new preface from the author.
Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show
, the prequel to
Soldiers in Hiding
, is due out from the University of Texas 2007.
A rich and ingenious novel that succeeds brilliantly.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Extraordinary…a feat of the imagination rendered with surprising skill…you'll remember this book for a long time.
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Intelligent and interesting… daring and entirely convincing.
THE WASHINGTON POST
A mature novel…the spirit of Graham Greene is here.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
Wonderful… Original… Terrific… Haunting… Reading S
oldiers in Hiding
is like watching a man on a high wire.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
A work of exceptional power and imagination.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Admirable, smooth, dispassionate …for an American to write from a Japanese standpoint, regardless of how long he has studied their culture, is an act of extreme literary bravery.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero
Edited by Jeff Meyers
Essays, Poetry, Fiction
266 pages
$16.95
ISBN 0-9716915-0-9
Edited by Jeff Meyers
THE MYRIAD REPERCUSSIONS and varied and often contradictory responses to the acts of terrorism perpetrated on September 11, 2001 have inspired thirty-four West Coast writers to come together in their attempts to make meaning from chaos. By virtue of history and geography, the West Coast has developed a community different from that of the East, but ultimately shared experiences bridge the distinctions in provocative and heartening ways. Jeff Meyers anthologizes the voices of American writers as history unfolds and the country braces, mourns, and rebuilds.
Contributors include: Diana Abu- Jaber, T. C. Boyle, Michael Byers, Tom Clark, Joshua Clover, Peter Coyote, John Daniel, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Gerstler, Lawrence Grobel, Ehud Havazelet, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong Kingston, Stacey Levine, Tom Spanbauer, Primus St. John, Sallie Tisdale, Alice Walker, and many others.
Baudrillard and his ilk make one grateful for Harlan Ellison, the science-fiction novelist, who tells a story in
September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A remarkable anthology.
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Physical distance doesn't mean emotional or intellectual remove: in Seattle poet Meyers's anthology of diverse voices, 34 writers from the left coast weigh in on September 11 in poems, meditations, personal essays and polemics. New and vociferous patriots beware: many of the contributors share criticism as strong as their grief.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
[
September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero
] deserves attention. This book has some highly thoughtful contributions that should be read with care on both coasts, and even in between.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Copyright ©2006 Richard Wiley
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage-and-retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 
Wiley, Richard,
Soldiers in hiding/
Richard Wiley.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-0-983-85043-4
(alk. paper)
1. World War. 1939 – 1945 – Fiction.
I. Title.
[ PS3573. I433S65 1991]
813'.54 – DC20
90-46193
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