Junk Shop Window
Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature
A visit to the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, England, results in a meeting with a telepathic dog. A trip to see the Irish Rovers on St Patrick’s Day becomes slapstick worthy of the I Love Lucy Show, An attempt to record the right background sounds for a Sherlock Holmes radio play opens a doorway in time to the world of a century ago. And Hermes, the Greek messenger god, appears in various guises, relaying sometimes cryptic, sometimes life-saving messages.
Junk Shop Window is getting so much praise from reviewers and interviewers! Take a look at these:
A rave review by Pulizter-prize winning critic Michael Dirda in The Washington Post:
Another rave by poet and scholar Charles Rammelkmap in The Hopkins Review:
A delightful interview with the author by fiction writer Leslie Pietrzyk on her acclaimed blog, To Be Read:
A probing, insightful interview with Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri on her award-winning radio show, The Poet and the Poem:
And a heart-felt, lovely interview with poet and activist Ethelbert Miller on his weekly WPF literary show, On the Margin:
Meet James J. Patterson
James J. Patterson was born in Washington, DC, five days before Nixon’s infamous “Checkers Speech.” He’s been lurking about in what he calls “The Capital of the Empire” ever since.
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Find Your Bermuda Shorts!
Bermuda Shorts by James J Patterson, is available right here! And while you’re at it, check out Rose Solari’s upcoming novel A Secret Woman, (It’s a sexy romp thru time and space!) due in April. And don’t miss Joanna Biggar’s That Paris Year, it’s a must read for the traveller in us all! For news…
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Winter’s A-Comin’! Part II
There’s only one thing corporate America hates more than paying their fair share of taxes, and that’s paying American workers a fair and decent wage. There follows a current rant on unemployment, the “I” of the Newt, a middle finger for the voters in Michigan, a tax the rich harangue, and some pretty darn good…
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Winter’s A-Comin’!
Winter’s A-Comin’! Part I After a whirlwind swing through the Bay Area last spring, thanks to the incomparable Lowry and Linda McFerrin (from Proforma and Left Coast Writers respectively), James J. Patterson and wife, poet, Rose Solari, were off to The Land of the Northern Pine for some needed R&R and to get back to…
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Gazette Review
Brooke Kenny of the Montgomery Gazette and her excellent review of Bermuda Shorts is here! “To Make The Personal Universal” Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine Scholar At Gadsby’s Tavern!
Thomas Paine Scholar At Gadsby’s Tavern! Paine Scholar Patrick Hughes was the featured speaker at Thomas Paine’s 274th birthday celebration at Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria on Jan. 29th. Mr. Hughes gave an inspired talk on Paine birthday celebrations over the past 200 years and helped Alan Squire Publishing revive this proud tradition! Read…
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Bermuda Shorts Trailer
Bermuda Shorts Movie Trailer! Beet Root Productions in partnership with Alan Squire Publishing has produced a trailer for James J. Patterson’s new book, Bermuda Shorts! Simply click on the image at the right to view, and turn the sound up!
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ASP Celebrates Paine
ASP CELEBRATES THOMAS PAINE! On Saturday, Januray 29th, 2011, Alan Squire Publishing celebrated the birthday of Thomas Paine, rviving a proud tradition that goes back to the opening decades of the 19th Century. Sixty people gathered at Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. There was music by the Fife & Drum Corps, colonial ale,…
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Grevel Lindop On Bermuda Shorts
Grevel Lindop, of Manchester, England, Poet, Essayist, Robert Graves Scholar and editor of The White Goddess, plus DeQuincies’ Confessions Of An English Opium Eater, and one of the planet’s coolest dudes, author of dozens of books, incuding his latest, Travels On The Dance Floor, and Selected Poems, has this to say…Bermuda Shorts “has that feel…
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Hank Thomas On Bermuda Shorts
True Story: last night I propped up my reading pillow with the idea of making it through a few chapters of “Bermuda Shorts,” a new anthology of short stories, some fiction but mostly of the memoir variety, from James J. Patterson, or Jimmy to his many friends. I didn’t have a lot of time for…