SELECTED ESSAYS

WORK IN PROGRESS

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Strangers in the Same Land: Encounters in Appalachia

pending publication, you can read it here

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Five Dusky Phantoms:

Re-reading Moby Dick in Times of Trouble. 

Blazevox.Fall 2018

The First Lady Boy Imam 

Click here to read.

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Reading Huckleberry Finn in Morocco

Click here to read.

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The Very Modern Adventures

of Genevieve & Gloria: 

A Picaresque Novel 

Available for submission  January 2021

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 It’s 1967 not far from Detroit, and riot and revolution are in the air. Seven year old Vieve already wants to join, but how?  Doomed to play among the dull neighbors she considers hiding in the cupboard until she is grown. That is until the Greenpoint Poles from NYC roll down the street with their moving van, carrying two carnival ponies and their daughter Gloria, the friend that Vieve has been waiting for.  Or is she?

Read a complete Synopsis here. 

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By all means contact me if you would like to read a sample chapter, or more.

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