The War Journal of Lila Ann Smith

The War Journal of Lila Ann Smith
Author: Irving M.Warner
Publisher: PBS Publications
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1545722528

Irving Warner, writer, harmonica artist, retired fish and game biologist, retired college professor is the author of two previous books published by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press: I998s In Memory of Hawks, and Other Stories from Alaska and 2004s Wagner, Descending: The Wrath of the Salmon Queen. Warner presently lives near Tacoma, Washington.

Unnecessary Talking: The Montesano Stories

Unnecessary Talking: The Montesano Stories
Author: Mike O’Connor
Publisher: PBS Publications
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154572251X

Mike O'Connor, born in Aberdeen, Washington, is a poet, writer, and translator of Chinese literature. For 12 years, he farmed and worked in the woods before pursuing Chinese studies and a journalism career in Asia for fifteen years. He is the author of nine books of poetry, translation, and memoir. His most recent publications include IMMORTALITY (2010) and UNNECESSARY TALKING: THE MONTESANO STORIES (2009), both from Pleasure Boat Studio. O'Connor is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2003-4); an International Writers' Workshop Fellowship, Hong Kong, (2006); and a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship (2009). He currently serves as publisher of Empty Bowl Press in Port Townsend, a writers' co-operative, and caretakes forest land on the Big Quilcene River.

Crossing the Water

Crossing the Water
Author: Irving Warner
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Pr
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. This is a unique volume in the best sense--two apparently diverse areas drawn together in 1959 politically as the 49th and 50th states of the United States. But they have been bound together by nature and history-the former for millennia, and the latter since the late 18th century. A poetic bond between both trilogies is crossing a body of water as a transformational event for human and animal alike. In the "Lost Road Trilogy," it is the ancient Charon myth; and in the "Hawaii Island Trilogy," it is of transformations in time and space, and how the two together can form illusions of spirit.

Sound of A Train

Sound of A Train
Author: Gilbert Girion
Publisher: PBS Publications
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1545722358

Gilbert Girion is primarily a playwright, though he has also written for film and has had short fiction published. Produced plays include Bridge Over Land, Faith s Body, Floating With Jane, Broken English, Bad Country, Word Crimes, (DramaLogue Award) The Last Word, Fizzle, Murder In Santa Cruz and Songs And Dances From Imaginary Lands (co-written). His plays Juice, Glue and Palm 90 (co-written) were produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he served as Playwright-In-Residence. He has been commissioned to write plays by Overtones Theatre, New Writers, Playwright s Horizons and New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF). Nominated by NYSF, he was the recipient of a Drama League Grant. He was also given a grant from Anna Sosenko Assist Trust. He wrote American Blue Note, a film directed by Ralph Toporoff and Let Go, a short film shown at Hampton s Film Festival. He worked with Joseph Chaikin and Bill Hart at Atlantic Center For The Arts where they developed Bodies, a piece about disability. His short stories have been published in Word, Noir Mechanics, Urban Desires and Saturday Review. Currently, he teaches Screenwriting at School Of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Life & Travels of Saint Cuthwin

The Life & Travels of Saint Cuthwin
Author: Irving Warner
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1545753709

The Life and Travels of Saint Cuthwin is a story of deep love and desperate survival in 11th Century England, a story told by a man named Cuthwin, born a peasant, who faced horror after horror in order to live for 85 years, at which time he told his story to a young monk who wrote it down. He wanted to tell his story – warts and all – since he had been informed that the Church was considering naming him as a Saint, an honor which Cuthwin absolutely denied. He attempted to discredit any such thoughts by revealing what he considered to be very UN-saintlike thoughts and actions. The accuracy with which Warner details life in this tumultuous period of history Is remarkable. He creates characters who come alive on the page, characters that a reader can truly imagine living in this violent and deeply religious period and who struggled through the bloody invasion of the Normans in 1066. The Life and Travels of Saint Cuthwin is literature in its truest sense, i.e., a deep and compelling story with strong and clearly developed characters told by a master of the craft. I’m no longer the publisher of Pleasure Boat Studio, but I can say that this is one of the very best books Pleasure Boat Studio ever released. It’s a book any press would be proud of. -Jack Estes, Former Publisher of Pleasure Boat Studio CUTHWINandCWENBURH.com

Home & Away

Home & Away
Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher: PBS Publications
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1545722005

In these poems, Miller drafts people, characters, images and events out of their familiar locations and contexts and weaves them into new situations, creating unexpected connections, original experiences. This new town is the locale of Miller's vital imagination.

Swan Dive

Swan Dive
Author: Michael Burke
Publisher: PBS Publications
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1545722374

Michael Burke has traveled through a number of careers since he graduated from college. The first was as an astronomer, working at observatories in the U.S., Hawaii and Iran. He then went back to school to obtain a Master’s Degree in City Planning. He worked in New York City’s Planning Department and later became an Assistant Professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture and City Planning. Michael changed direction again when he found a loft in Soho and began to paint. He has been an artist for more than 30 years - painting, drawing, and creating aluminum books and sculpture. He has exhibited the work extensively in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Although he has written and published poetry over the years, Michael has only recently arrived on the mystery scene. He has published three mystery novels starring detective Johnny “Blue” Heron; Swan Dive, Music Of The Spheres, and Out Of Mind.

Weinstock Among the Dying

Weinstock Among the Dying
Author: Michael Blumenthal
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Pr
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. Jewish Studies. This Michael Blumenthal novel was chosen by Elie Wiesel, Thomas Kenneally, and Merrill Joan Gerber as winner of Hadassah Magazine's prestigious Ribelow Prize as Best Jewish Novel of the Year in 1994. In its all-too-short lifespan, it received rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and glowing tributes from such writers as Lorrie Moore, Tim O'Brien, Jhumpa Lahiri, Robert Coles, and Leslie Epstein. Unfortunately, just three months after the novel's publication, its publisher, Zoland Books, was forced to close for economic reasons, and this brilliant novel by one of America's finest poets hardly even saw the light of day. It is now available for the first time in paperback allowing it a second--really a first--life. Once you read it, I am sure you will agree that it more than deserves the kind of critical and popular attention which--due to the unfortunate circumstances that befell its original publisher--it never received.

Island of the Naked Women

Island of the Naked Women
Author: Inger Frimansson
Publisher: Caravel Mystery Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Tobias, a mystery writer, returns to the family farm to care for his father. There he is allured by his father's young wife Sabina. Meanwhile, Hardy, the hired hand, scoffs at Tobias' city ways, while encouraging Sabina's mentally challenged son Adam to turn into an Elvis impersonator; and Ingelize, who runs a riding school, finds Tobias irresistible. Soon death strikes and chaos ensues.