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Milo’s Reckoning by Joseph Olshan
Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.
When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, is awakened one morning by a Westchester county policeman and told that his mentor apparently has hanged himself, he instinctively distrusts the coroner’s verdict. After all, he’d just the night before spent the evening in Lenny D’Ambrosio’s company, discussing literature in translation and the complicated life and death of Primo Levi and had not detected a trace of melancholy. Searching for clues that will explain Lenny’s demise brings Milo in contact with an acquaintance of his brother Carlo, who died in a car accident four years earlier. The startling and unnerving details that he learns about his brother’s death drive Milo to the farthest reaches of New York City and then to Italy. There, he gets ensnared in a channel of illegal pornography being made with undocumented actors who have been trafficked into the country and forced into the sex trade. Shattered by the harrowing truths that he learns abroad, he returns to America sorrowful and yet enlightened.
David K. Shipler on The Book Case
With Kate & Charlie Gibson
Join us for a special two-episode series of The Book Case with Kate & Charlie Gibson. David K. Shipler discusses his writing process for The Interpreter, the difference between writing fiction and journalism, and so much more.
Stranger from Across the Sea
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Green City BOOKS is an independent publisher based in Bend, Oregon. We publish original voices that bring new perspectives on culture and art. We publish fiction and nonfiction and create a platform for artistic vision and excellence in the craft of writing. We are readers first, and seek to publish works that inspire us and deserve a broader platform. We are genre agnostic, and listen for the music of language in the books we curate and bring to the public.
Green City BOOKS is an independent publisher based in Bend, Oregon. We publish original voices that bring new perspectives on culture and art. We publish fiction and nonfiction and create a platform for artistic vision and excellence in the craft of writing. We are readers first, and seek to publish works that inspire us and deserve a broader platform. We are genre agnostic, and listen for the music of language in the books we curate and bring to the public.
About Green City
A sense of place
An ideal place, a utopia, is necessarily imaginary. A city of the mind is not necessarily insubstantial. An imaginary city, a green city, is a place where ideas and artistry thrive and eventually emerge into the real world. A city of the mind can be labyrinthine, overgrown, and mysterious, but at the center there is truth waiting to be revealed. To write is to unfold the topography of the mind in the real world and invite others to explore this terra incognita. The discovery of the unknown, whether through science or the arts, makes life meaningful.
