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MARCH 2008 SPILLING THE MOON, poems by Matt Schumacher ISBN: 978-1-877655-57-9, LCN: 2008920991 Trade paperback, 6 X 9, 102 pages, $12 Cover art: "The Red Chair," Jessica Plattner Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design "These poems are travelers abolishing distances at every turn. The journey from mirage to mountaintop, from haunting to home-place, and from crime to new creation—all suddenly effortless now thanks to the gracious turns of SPILLING THE MOON." --Donald Revell, author of A Thief of Strings "Where language is audacious as a pterodactyl-esque wingspan and tight as the rhyme between astronaut and not, in Matthew Schumacher’s new book SPILLING THE MOON, Selene is an originating source: 'I ’m meeting with the moon all afternoon' Schumacher writes in 'Lunar Ghazal.' Schumacher’s poems are big-hearted, humane, filled with mad - mad love for this life and an abundance of wit. Meditations on symbolist portraits by Arnold Böcklin along with carnivalesque dances on the moon, rain, an aluminum fishing boat, an abandoned lighthouse on Lake Huron, all claim our attention and warrant revisitings. In SPILLING THE MOON for every blast beyond gravity’s architectonics there’s a counter-balancing measure, and '[we] . . . fall like rain gently back into our footsteps.'” --Robert Grunst, author of The Smallest Bird in North America "The imagination’s redemptive powers cartwheel and cavort in Matt Schumacher’s SPILLING THE MOON, a phantasmagoria of breathtaking verbal ingenuity, the non-stop astonishments heeding Keats’s advice to Shelley that every rift of the subject be loaded with ore. These poems render the daily extraordinary and the impossible vividly plausible, their multifarious speakers boasting audaciously tender braggadocio. Matt Schumacher’s poems, big-hearted and heartbreaking, amaze and delight." -- Aaron Anstett, author of Each Place the Body's SAMPLE 1: "A Brief Correspondence Between Halloween and the Aurora Borealis" (PDF) SAMPLE 2: "The Cruelty of Foosball" (PDF) SAMPLE 3: "In High Speed Pursuit of Romance"(PDF) Matt Schumacher possesses hard-earned degrees in poetry and poetics from the University of Maine and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and have won a Willamette Writers Kay Snow Award and a Hayna Award. They’ve also been anthologized by Manic D Press and performed live by a punk rock band named the Iowa Beef Experience. Schumacher has taught writing, literature, and humanities at a cornucopia of collegiate institutions and correctional facilities in California, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, and Washington. He currently teaches at Eastern Oregon University.
SELF INTERVIEW: MARCH 2008 (PDF)
NOVEMBER 2007
ISBN: 978-1-877655-56-2, 1-877655-56-2 LCN: 2007939345 Trade paperback, 6 X 8.25, 88 pages, $12 Cover art: "Journey" by Terry Gloeckler Cover design: Kristin Summers, redbat design "Donald Wolff's Soon Enough is a book haunted by danger, affliction, imminent disasters, and his poems are talismans against this ferocious onslaught. With these poems, Wolff stares down catastrophe and peril, and celebrates the sheer wonder of our survival-- the glory of our sad, fragile, beautiful lives." —Gary Young, No Other Life "Soon Enough's landscape is western, cut through by canyons and rivers, populated by bear, even the bison. Reality arises from the details of a life fully lived there: fatherhood, work, memory and hope. The best poems in this collection are the darkest, the squirrel in the belly of a coyote, a man in the grip of his life." —Dorianne Laux, Facts About The Moon "Soon Enough is a remarkable book of poetry if only for its range, the control of many contemporary modes--prose poems, short lyric poems, long line ekphrastic poems, multi-sectioned symphonic poems--each one with authority and a mastery of craft. And throughout, there is a sure, accessible, and memorable voice. This is a book of grit and gravity, of grace pushing for all it can against mortality. Wolff risks a great deal personally and intellectually, and cuts down to the bone, to the essential meaning." --Christopher Buckley, ...and the Sea, Sleepwalk Donald Wolff lives and works in La Grande, Oregon. At Eastern Oregon University, he teaches courses in creative writing and applied linquistics, co-directs the Oregon Writing Project, and currently serves as Chair of the Division of Arts and Letters. He was born and raised in California, which informs many of his poems about the past, while life with his family in La Grande has so far guided many of his poems about the present. In May 2004, he was a resident writer at Fishtrap. His chapbook, Some Days, was printed in 2004 by Brandenburg Press.
SEPTEMBER 2007
ISBN: 978-1-877655-54-8, 1-877655-54-6 LCN: 2007931228 Trade paperback, 6 X 8.25, 76 pages, $12 Cover photo: SManohar, courtesy bigstockphoto.com Cover design: redbat design Paper Bird is Pamela Steele’s first full-length book of poetry, though she previously published a chapbook of poems (Other Rivers, Distant Song, Spring Tree Press, 1997). Pamela is a Fishtrap Fellow who recently completed her MFA from Spalding University of Louisville, Kentucky. While in the writing program there, she was honored with the Jim Wayne Miller Poetry Prize from the Kentucky Writers Coalition. A turning point in her career came halfway through the MFA Program when two mentors, separately on the same day, told her it was time she got honest and stopped writing around what she wanted to say. “Up to that point, I’d been using imagery to flirt with ideas, but I’d never written about the difficult topics I’ve since addressed.” Pamela was recently awarded an artist’s fellowship from Jentel Foundation and spent a month living and writing on a working cattle ranch in Wyoming. “That lifestyle attracts me,” she says, “especially the landscape of the West, so I started a chapbook of poems about my experiences on my partner's small horse outfit on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. My father was a West Virginia boy who came out to Oregon to be a horseman, so that's a thread of my life that I want to keep.” Pamela teaches at Hermiston High School and hopes to teach at the college/university level. Small Press Review "Pick" for Jan. - Feb., 2008, Vol. 40, Nos. 1 - 2, Issues 420 - 421. “Steele transforms the ordinary--cupping moments like the source of light in the palms of her hands. Here, she says, see beyond our time here. Paper Bird is a luminous collection of poems. Honest and spare, wistful and haunting.”
“Steele’s poems are honest and visceral. They get under the skin and instruct us on how to squeeze our eyes tight and still see real beauty in the world. An important collection of love letters to everything that bleeds.”
“Pamela Steele’s poems are compassionate and descriptive,
steeped with a quiet wisdom, opening doors to the profound insights
and sensualities of the ordinary. Her poems are both lyrical and
narrative, with an intelligent, introspective voice. They are infused
with a seductive music, and with duende.” “The heart of Pam Steele’s poems beats for all of us.”
Available September 25th
a postcyberpunk novel by David Memmott ISBN: 978-1-877655-53-1, 1-877655-53-8 LCN: 2007930089 Trade paperback, 272 pages, $15 Cover art collage: Kristin Johnson & David Memmott Images for collage: www.bigstockphoto.com Cover design: redbat design
If you think the world is crazy now, just wait. Worldbenders are trained to re-invent the past. Benito Cortezar creates a perfect past only to find it haunted by forces he cannot control. A shadow at the core of Primetime threatens our very humanity. So many depend on Benito, even the dead. At the watershed of human and posthuman, in the clash between Dreamtime and Primetime, a gaggle of fractured heroes are caught up in a struggle between those yet to come and those waiting to come back. “Primetime gives us a future where the sun shines while mythologies and realities of the past and future collide thanks to the emerging technology. It’s a pleasure to read...Come to think of it, it also comes close to my fantasy of science fction that makes you want to get up and dance...”
Smoking Mirror Blues "This novel explores the battle between two notions of virtual reality, one meant to allow people to experience the “real”, the other opening directly onto the id and an individual’s darkest fantasies. Add in the complications of an alien presence, virtual joyriders, and different strata (and substrata) of the real (and the unreal), and you’ve got a sf novel that doubles as a philosophical meditation on the nature of human reality. Move over, Second Life: Primetime is here.”
"A dizzying debut novel explores an extreme near-future that explodes into a post-cyberpunk extravaganza... Primetime is, inarguably and admirably, ambitious...and it will be interesting to see where the author goes from here. " F. Brett Cox, scifi.com "In Primetime, David Memmott...gives us a post-cyberpunk novel that's both entertaining and thought-provoking. A world of virtual reality that is futuristic and complex [is] brought to life by dazzling description...Overall, it's heady stuff in more ways than one." -- Bobbi Sinha-Morey, The Specusphere SAMPLE 1: Chapter 3 -- Papa Art SAMPLE 2: Chapter 7 -- House of Revelations SAMPLE 3: Chapter 12 -- Random Acts SAMPLE 4: Chapter 13 -- Piano Man
David Memmott’s work has appeared in mainstream as well as genre magazines and anthologies. His genre credits include stories and poetry in Interzone, Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Nebula Awards 27, Airfish, Alchemy of Stars: An Anthology of Rhysling Award Winners, L’Uomo Duplicato, (an Italian science fiction anthology), Back Brain Recluse (England), 2001: An Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry, Star*Line, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, New Realities, Works (England), Ball Magazine, and New Pathways into Science Fiction and Fantasy. He co-edited, Angel Body and Other Magic for the Soul, with Chris Reed of BBR Publications, selected as a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for best antholgy of 2003. He has published four books of poetry including The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut, and a story collection, Shadow Bones. His most recent book of poetry, Watermarked, published by Traprock Books (Eugene, OR, 2004), received four Pushcart Prize nominations. A short story received a Worldwide Writers, Inc., fiction award and essays have been posted on-line including an essay for Writers on the Job at Web del Sol which will be included in an anthology of the same name to be published by Hopewell Publications. An interview and novel excerpt will appear in Perigee, an online literary magazine. Memmott received a Fishtrap Fellowship for his poetry and three Oregon Literary Fellowships for excellence in publishing from Literary Arts, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, most recently in 2006. He is a member of the Writers Guild of Eastern Oregon and serves on the board of RondeHouse Media Arts Konsortium. He lives with his wife, Susan, in La Grande, Oregon. Primetime is his first novel and Book One of the trilogy, DREAMERS' ROUND. This title is also available through Ingram's, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com and barnes&noble.com
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Cover art by Jessica Soo Hyun Ni, Cover design
by Katherine James, “My fictions are tour guides to the multiverse; a stone is not merely a rock, but a small living mountain, a horse is karmic psychic energy, a cat is the Great Mystery, and the seidr-working shamaness is the one person who connects you with your own fate, that special place in the wheel of time which is uniquely yours. The meditative mythologies of Magpies and Tigers are meant to unleash us from the tethers of the mundane.”
“Misha Nogha’s poetry is like the good parts of life—and the good parts of life are often the most dangerous parts, if you’re paying attention. Most people are uneasily aware they’re gradually losing touch with something vital—Misha’s poetry will put you back in touch with that vitality.” — John Shirley, The Other End and Living Shadows “Misha Nogha knows not only the animal without but the animal within, and her words sing with this mystery.” — Annette Curtis Klaus, Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss “Misha Nogha’s writings are a kaleidoscope of haunting images. As one poem says, “all realities are spoken here.” Small flashes of color reveal the wild immanence of nature; the image of a trotting wind-horse calls up the wideness of the world. Traveling territories seen and unseen, this poetry by a postmodern metaphysician speaks to readers in discordia concours of spectacular wordplay.”
— Carol McGuirk, Florida Atlantic University, “A true shaman of the written word, Misha Nogha reminds us of our true human creature selves and our natural heritage through vibrant language, signaling a hyper-reality woven from dreamstates, mythical places, and animal avatars.” — Richard Truhlar, The Hollow and Parisian Novels Misha Nogha is the award winning author of prose and poetry volumes, Prayers of Steel and KeQuaHawkas, and the novel, Red Spider White Web, winner of the 1990 Readercon Award, also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke award. Misha won the 1989 Prix D’Italia with her piece, “Tsuki Mangetsu,” performed by two Australian artists. In addition to writing prose and poetry Misha is an accomplished musician and has collaborated with several composers on librettos. The first of these was written in conjunction with composer and cellist Jonathan Golove. Its World Premiere was performed by Mr. Golove and Misha at the Festival of 500 years of Western Music in Buffalo New York in the winter of 2000. Misha is currently writing another set of librettos with composer Arie Van Schuterhoeff of Amsterdam. Misha is of mixed blood Metis, and Norse ancestry. The Reverend Nogha is an ordained minister and her spiritual practices reflect both heritages. She lives a full life as author, musician and farmer. She is also a Skywarn Severe Storm Spotter for NOAA and an official National Weather Service Co-op Observer. Misha recently finished her novel Yellowjacket, a humorous and bittersweet literary western, and working on her third and fourth novels, Jack Jinx and Alruna. True denizens of a modern horse culture, Misha and her husband composer Michael Chocholak, own and operate a small farm in Eastern Oregon where they raise beautiful Norwegian Fjord horses. Misha's website:
For other books by Misha published by Wordcraft of Oregon (Red Spider White Web and Prayers of Steel), see Speculative Writers Series
Release Date: July 1, 2007
perfectbound, 6 X 9, full-color cover, 80 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-877655-55-5, ISBN: 1-877655-55-4, LCN: 2007925640 This book was published in part due to a 2006 Literary Fellowship for Publishers, Literary Arts, Inc, Portland, Oregon Cover art: Harry Griswold
“Harry Griswold’s reality presses in from all sides. He speaks in a calm voice, quiet for the most part, but we sense the wildness just under the surface, pushing against the words.” — Joseph Millar, Fortune “Harry Griswold is the kind of poet you would like to sit down with. He’s weaving stories and he knows just how much to show, how much to tell. You won’t find a false step or easy theatrics. Camera Obscura is the work of an experienced, astute man, very worthwhile taking in. We need more wisdom in our poetry and Griswold delivers.” — Eloise Klein Healy, The Island Project: Poems for Sappho “Harry Griswold’s aptly-titled debut collection of poems, Camera Obscura, is filled with people—real and imagined—at times isolated in their grief and locked in silence. The poet gives voice to their yearnings, and solace in his plain-spoken words. This is a poetry deeply focused in its seeing, its way of knowing. From the seemingly mundane to the near extraordinary, these poems look at the dailiness of our lives, as in the camera’s darkened chamber, ‘right in the middle of things.’” — Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, winner of the Pulitzer Prize A graduate of the MFA Program at Pacific University, Harry Griswold teaches poetry writing in a private workshop at Solano Beach, CA, and lives in San Diego. He is originally from Rochester, NY, where he graduated from Monroe Community College and the University of Rochester. His training was in computer science and experimental psychology. Camera Obscura is Harry’s first book of poetry. More info on Harry Griswold at his website
Release date: May 1, 2007
Cover art: Suzie Hutchins In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot is an irresistible collection of personal essays in which Michael Lee's characteristic humor and compassionate insight revolves around the experience of daily life in Cape Cod. Framed by broad-interest essays that travel far afield and far abroad, the appropriate center of these appreciations is a seasonal round informed by place. But Lee's sense of place is not provincial. He always finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, the universal in the local, narrows down soas to expand and open. Lee's achievement here in the short essay form is as remarkable as his achievement in short fiction with his debut collection, Paradise Dance, published by Leapfrog Press (2002). Read them both and marvel. Michael Lee has held an array of jobs that now seem standard in a writer’s profile: construction worker, shrimp peeler, commercial diver, short order cook, drummer in a useless band, bartender, and cemetery lawn mower. He began his writing career at age 16 with short humor pieces for Skin Diver Magazine. While serving with the Marine Corps at Khe Sanh in Vietnam, Lee also wrote dispatches for Stars and Stripes and his hometown newspaper in Framingham, Massachusetts. He holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. Currently, Lee is the Literary Editor of The Cape Cod Voice and the director of the annual literary soiree, “New Works Weekend,” in Orleans, Massachusetts. Lee is a member of the Writer’s Guild and the National Book Critics Circle, and his collection of short stories, “Paradise Dance,” was published by Leapfrog Press in 2002. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Julia and is currently working on a novel. "Each essay is only a few pages long, yet each strikes the heart of its topic with a deft flick of the wrist. A teasury to savor a bit at a time, or all at once." -- Michael J. Carson, The Midwest Book Review "I see Michael Lee once a week for therapy. Believe me, I earn every dime." — Gordon Barney, MA, LMHC "MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience." — Norman Mailer "Michael Lee's In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot is by turns melancholy and hilarious, sweet and bittersweet, a gift of hard-won wisdom and wry observation from a shrimp header, soundboard man, delivery driver, short-order cook, bricklayer, fisherman, soldier, back trap hauler and self-described dyslexic carpenter who is first and foremost a writer of enormous gifts. If there is such a thing as painful joy, Michael Lee is its voice." — Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award winning author of Red Leaves, Peril, Into the Web, among others. "Gold, silver and bronze—Barry, Keillor, Lee—though not necessarily in that order. With In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot, Mike Lee steps into the natioal circle of champs. He makes it look so easy—how the hell does he do it? He'll make you chortle and chuckle before surrendering the last of your cool in a boil of laughter all the while your mist-eyed heart sputters, He's right! He's got it! That just exactly it! More, Mr. Lee! More!" — Thomas E. Kennedy, The Literary Review "In swift language woven with sparkling metaphors, Lee's wry, sometimes zany observations dissect the human comedy in ways that are ironic but seldom bitter or satirical. Lee has a big heart, and he sees the good in almost everything; or if not the good, at least the humor. If there is one thing we need more of in this sadly fracturing world, it is laughter. Michael Lee's In An Elevator With Brigitte Bardot provides a whole lot of laughter and plenty of food for thought." — Duff Brenna, The
Law of Falling Bodies, Paradise Dance, short stories by Michael Lee, 216 pgs., 0-9679520-6-9, 6 X 9, $14.95/paperback original available from Leapfrog Press www.leapfrogpress.com
Cover artwork by Andi Olsen It is no concidence that Thomas E. Kennedy's eighth novel, A Passion in the Desert, borrows its title from a Balzac story about mistrust and betrayal—for these are the themes at the heart of this unsettling story about a man stalked by guilt over a choice he made two decades before. Now small strange happenings begin to plague his days—somebody else's words in his journal, one too many flat tires, things out of place in his home, damning evidence in his laundry... Somebody, it seems, is after him, but who? A colleague? His own son? Or is it all just a reflection of the guilt, festering in his own heart? "Readers have been introduced to a very troubled mind which only exposes itself slowly as the book progresses." -- Rochelle Ratner for American Book Review, Line on Line, Volume 29, Number 3 "In A Passion in the Desert, Kennedy's exploration of the many modalities of love delivers us to the convergence of sex and death. I don't know of another fiction writer today whose craft is a match for his." — Robert Gover, author of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding "Spellbinding, at times terrifying, with prose that is heartbreakingly beautiful. Kennedy has written a story of the aftermath of an unforgettable passion, the cost of letting go, and then letting go." — Duff Brenna, author of The Book of Mamie "By the time readers finish A Passion in the Desert, they will know its central character, Fred Twomey, more intimately than they know the people around them, quite possibly even themselves.That's one of the powers of great fiction, and Thomas E. Kennedy possesses a special ability to explore the landscape of a man's inner world, exposing emotions and secrets he can barely admit to himself. Although Twomey's life is unique, caught up in its own particular drama, he is clearly one of us, and in discovering him, we discover ourselves." — Walter Cummins, The Literary Review Other Wordcraft of Oregon titles by Thomas E. Kennedy Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction The Book of Angels, a novel Unreal City, stories For more information on the author, see: www.thomasekennedy.com or www.thecopenhagenquartet.com
This collection is centered around a group of poems which focus on the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. "Tom Madden's poems sing of life, of rich histories, and the sad and beautitful landscapes that make us mourn and rejoice. His voice is quiet but insistent. Here, he is saying, look closely, more closely at the soul of the American West and our place here. This is a profound and beautiful collection." — Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red "These small rooms into which Thomas Madden leads us, quietly, hand in hand, burst with treasure." —David Axelrod, winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry
SOLDIER
TO ADVOCATE: C .E. S. WOOD'S 1877 LEGACY, George Venn SECOND PRINTING NOW AVAILABLE! Send check or postal money order for $20 + S/H to: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, P.O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850. (See ordering information for shipping costs.) Only 25 copies of First Edition, First Printing, signed by author, remain. Get yours now for $35 + S/H. "GEORGE VENN IS BREAKING NEW GROUND..." — Jeff Baker, Book Section, The Sunday Oregonian Dec. 10, 2006 "...this fascinating book [is] a must-read, must-have for students of Nez Perce tribal history...[Venn's teamwork with Wordcraft of Oregon] has produced an outstanding work that will be a treasure now and in the future...the unique kind of scholarship represented by Venn...artistically, seamlessly ties modern tribal history to that earlier troubled time." -- Steven R. Evans, Oregon HIstorical Quarterly for full review see History Cooperative on-line
ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER, ONE NEZ PERCE CHIEF: ONE SPIRIT Soldier to Advocate tells the story of 2nd Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) who wants to be a lover and a writer. Stationed in 1877 at Vancouver Barracks near Portland, General Howard grants Wood the privilege of exploring Alaska, then recalls him to fight in the tragic Nez Perce War. Part II features Wood's transcribed diary from this period, a text enriched by Wood's drawings leaked to the New York press—the only eye-witness images of the Nez Perce conflict. Part III traces Wood's lifetime of prose and poetry defending Chief Joseph and finally opposing General Howard. The book concludes by documenting three 1990's events in the Wood family's legacy of friendship and respect for the Nez Perces: a joint exhibition, the gift of a stallion, and a reconciliation ceremony. With nearly two hundred notes and forty additional 19th century images, Soldier to Advocate shows us that history is the nightmare from which we should all try to awake. "I highly recommend that any serious student of the Nez Perce Campaign read this excellent and rich piece of work. Mr. Venn's research in Soldier to Advocate will add that "missing piece" to some of the misunderstandings of the Nez Perce War." -- W. Otis Halfmoon (Nez Perce), former Idaho Unit Manager, Nez Perce National Historical Park, contributor to the Encyclopedia of North American Indians "George Venn's work is a superb contribution to our knowledge of the Nez Perce War, particularly as it respects judgments about Charles E.S. Wood as historian, participant, and literary influence." -- Jerome A.Greene, historian and author of Nez Perce Summer, 1977: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis "Thank you for that wonderful publication, Soldier to Advocate. It's rich, rich, rich, and I congratulate you." -- Alvin Josephy, historian and author of The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Pacific Northwest Also by George Venn George Venn's website: An American treasure back in print — in a new and revised edition.
The Book of Mamie is the story of one person's struggle to overcome the abuse and traumas of her childhood. It is the story of a wonderfully gifted young woman, a young woman of genius, uncanny wisdom and primitive strength, whose revelations unfold in the course of an odyssey across the heartland of America. Mamie's story is told by her companion, a 15-year-old farmboy who shares her adventures with a wild variety of characters and whose own story becomes a rite of passage as they try to stay one step ahead of the law and Mamie's sinister father. "Duff Brenna's The Book of Mamie reminds us why we read...This novel is unforgettable." --James Michael Slama, The Literary Review "...a risky, graceful book...told in language that is lean and unpretentious, a language forged out of the hard landscape of the rural Middle West." -- New York Times "Duff Brenna is an American treasure." -- The Bloomsbury Review "And Brenna writes consciously in the American tradition, invoking Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in both the voice and the story...and [he] is in good company with the great literary voices to whom he pays homage." -- San Francisco Chronicle Duff Brenna's website: They set out to find J.D. SALINGER
In the mid-1970s, hiding out for nearly a decade, J.D. Salinger had long been a literary legend, the lost leader and vanished wiseman of millions of readers around the world, from the USA to the USSR. An unreachable hero. Or was he? Enter inner-city teacher Greg Herriges, determined to fulfill his dream of meeting and speaking with the reclusive author. Herriges’ tale is a double helix narrative of personal quest and romantic love as he and his former girlfriend, both young, big city high school teachers, hit the road one summer, Kerouac-style, on a mission to find the hidden giant, discovering America – and themselves – along the way. This journey of two young idealistic English teachers who set out to find J.D. Salinger is a love story as well as a tribute to the reclusive author. "Beyond the vividness with which Herriges conveys the surface adventures, JD is much more than a celebrity hunt. The book's profound human complexities give it emotional depth." --Walter Cummins, The Literary Review
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