I AM A PRAYER
The night my mom died I couldn’t sleep for the fun. So begins Raymond Shackleford’s confused odyssey.
I Am a Prayer is about loss and it’s about gifts, and the efforts we make to find meaning in life when tragedy is an inescapable aspect of love. Ray’s journey takes him to a variety of venues - from a dance-club to the depths of his own past - but it will be a chance encounter with a stranger that changes everything.
Nate’s New Age
“Nate’s New Age is funny, sexy, honest, but most of all it is wise.” - Erica Eisdorfer, author of The Wet Nurse’s Tale
“An ambitious and gratifying piece of fiction.” - Lou Lipsitz, author of If This World Falls Apart
Darkly comic and fast-paced, Nate's New Age is the bastard son of Bright Lights, Big City, and All That Jazz.
A 28-year-old skydiving instructor searches for - and avoids - meaning in his life through substance-abuse and sexual adventure. His most controlled moments are jumping out of a plane at 15,000 feet.
Nate knows it is time to plant his feet on solid ground. Will he make changes, or has he become addicted to the plunge?
Tripping to Dickeyland
"This Dickeyland book is a beautiful elegy for James Dickey and his work, his wild vitality, his kindness. But it is more than an elegy. It describes, and celebrates, Michael Hanson's difficult apprenticeship to his craft, his loves, his friendships. This is very real and rare, the true story of an American artist at work."
-Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi