Böcker av Steven Meloan

Spawned by the New Wave/Punk scenes of the 1980s, The Kind the Pharaohs Try offers evocative story-song lyrics, and compelling spoken word stories. The songs speak of doomed loves, and noir tales in exotic locations, inspired by the poetic/wry/bitter-sweet stylings of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Elvis Costello. The spoken word pieces take readers on journeys of seedy carnival midways, lives of urban madness, transcendent spiritual retreats, and coming-of-age garage band shacks. Having spanned the rock scenes of 1980s San Francisco and LA, to National Public Radio and Internet storytelling, this compilation of writings by Michael and Steven Meloan explores the cultural zeitgeist of the late 20th Century West Coast."In this book you will find literature that rocks, and rock lyrics that are literature."--Westley Heine, author of Busking Blues and Street Corner Spirits.

a book of short stories by Steven MeloanSteven Meloan's writing has been seen in Wired, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles, BUZZ, the San Francisco Chronicle, and SF Weekly. His fiction has appeared in SOMA Magazine, the Sonoma Valley Sun, Lummox Press, and Newington Blue Press, as well as at Litquake, Quiet Lightning, and other Bay Area literary events. He has regularly written for the Huffington Post, and is co-author of the novel The Shroud with his brother Michael. He is a recovered software programmer, and was a street busker in London, Paris, and Berlin."Reading these stories, I felt like I was hearing an original voice for the very first time. They are surreal, cinematic, poetic, and have real punch-with everything I could want in a collection of short fiction. Set in California and Europe, from the 1960s to the 1980s, they vividly capture lost times and lost places. They have echoes of Jack Kerouac and Paul Bowles, and can be read again and again with a sense of wonder and pleasure."-Jonah Raskin, Author of Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955