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Written under a pseudonym and told from the first-person perspective, in detailed intimacy, Carter Monroe’s novel reads like a   roman à clef .   Journey   captures only a few days in the summer of 1971 in North Carolina. The narrator and protagonist, Eddie Watson, is a nineteen-year-old college student looking to escape his family and find some fun. What begins as a night out for Eddie with friends and acquaintances, who are all attending a concert, gradually becomes the onset of an insightful quest for his self-awareness and identity. And this is only the beginning for him. Find   Journey .

Book and film recommendations- Bohemian New Orleans and The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press. I have just completed this book and watched the documentary (twice). Many thanks to Carter Monroe for turning me on to both!  Bohemian New Orleans The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press

Today is the 5th anniversary of my second book, Rampart and Toulouse ! Many thanks to publisher, Carter Monroe, and Rank Stranger Press!

                          

In the spring of 1990, a friend suggested if I liked J.D. Salinger, I should read Raymond Carver. It would seem this recommendation and my subsequent falling in love with Carver’s style would come a bit too late. My “discovery” of him came two years after his death. I read everything by Carver I could find. I even turned down plans with friends to stay home and read his stories. Years later, the controversy of Carver and his editor, Gordon Lish, became public and many voiced their thoughts on the process of such heavy editing of a writer’s work. I felt strangely betrayed. I wondered if I had read more Lish than Carver in all those stories. Yet, when I read what Tess Gallagher gave to The New Yorker as the first draft of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” which Carver had titled “Beginners,” I could honestly say the story was better for the editing. I also found it intriguing an editor would suggest a longer title. In 2009, it was because of t...