Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Afterlife

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While seeking to resolve his wife’s disappearance, a travel writer uncovers mysteries in the White Mountains that lead to ghosts, CIA revelations, and disturbing answers to political events that shook America in the 1960s. The story begins with an unusual train ride A good writer writes for only one reason. It isn’t fame…And it’s not … Read more

Letter from “Finding Dimitri”

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Dimitry became my best friend when I was an exchange student in Concepción, Chile, where he shared his keen curiosity and active intelligence. I was there in 1964-65, and we continued our friendship through a decade of correspondence, as well as a memorable visit to my home in Bergen County, N.J. After a careless move … Read more

Letter from “From Another World”

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A poetry workshop at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, taught me that literature could become a shared experience with the potential to make the world a better place. The author of this letter, ibn kenyatta (or K), is himself a testament both to genius and to courage—an artist and poet who is still in jail because he refuses to deny his innocence.

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Fremin

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Fremin Le May chronicles his adventures with 15th Century French poet Francois Villon across courts, brothels and prisons in this ironic and sometimes strident confession. Fremin Seeks Absolution from the Brothers at Fontenay-le-Comte December 23,1491 Fontenay-le-Comte ENTRY: THE FIRST I give you this confession to save my soul, and ask you as my witnesses before … Read more

Dog

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Once a famous 18th Century naturalist and friend to Ben Franklin, Mendel wakes up to discover he’s a black-Lab-terrier mix in this comic dystopian drama where the excesses of American politics provoke a divine act of retribution from ancient Greece. You never know how things are going to turn out… (Mendel) You never know how … Read more

Silver and the Angels (Novel)

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Journalist Constance Graham tries to resolve the many implausible riddles that arise when a family of “angels” (or are they vampires?) war against the industrialization of the human species, in the wake of unexplained, violent murders that rock Stamford, Connecticut. * Dying Young When the phone rang Fran felt a stinging sensation as her still … Read more

The Northern Spy (Novel)

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Agent Felix Andropov, once assigned to guard Rasputin, struggles to recreate his life and his marriage against a backdrop of extraordinary political events and a haunting series of murders in 1920 Petrograd. Murmansk (From Felix Andropov in a letter to his brother, Semyon.) I proceeded north and then eastward through the wilderness, hunting as I … Read more

Finding Dimitri

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While seeking to discover the truth behind his best friend’s disappearance in Pinochet’s Chile, photographer Marten Sorensen ends up playing a game of life and death with the Devil. Listen to the author reading The Message from the Window The Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Poets were gone. The people who inspired those … Read more

From Another World

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This non-fiction account explores the lives of four members of a poetry workshop at Green Haven in Stormville, NY in 1976-67 – two of whom are still alive, one still in prison, while one became the subject of a Paul Simon Broadway Musical. The short section below highlights both Salvador Agron’s transformational experience in prison, as well as the very different points of view, still visible in America, about people in prison and rehabilitation.

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