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Alec Clayton's latest novel is generating
hurricane conditions on the steamy Mississippi Gulf Coast!
The Backside of Nowhere
"Alec Clayton’s The Back Side of Nowhere is his best
novel so far, and is a rollicking good read. It contains Hollywood pop gossip as
well as downhome humor and veers from the ridiculous to the sublime, with strong
characters and important social issues all subsumed into the plot. If you liked
Clayton’s other novels you should grab this one immediately. It’s not just good
but fun." --Larry Johnson, author of Veins
"The Back Side of Nowhere (what a great title!) is a wild and funny Southern
novel set on the Gulf Coast in range of New Orleans. It deals in floods and
hurricanes, not all of them natural. As we say, It's almost too true to be funny
(it isn't really). Sometimes people describe things like this as Southern
Gothic--but the fact of the matter is, these people really are that strange--if
by strange you mean having a life of your own that interacts hilariously with
the modern media but does not depend on them. If you're a fan of Big Poppa and
his crazy Southern children, this ought to be right up your alley. A great
ride!" --Jack Butler, author of Living in Little Rock with Miss Littlerock
and Jujitsu for Christ
"I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo impressed. I read and reread sections just
poring over the word pictures".-- Margaret Ward
Cover art by
Glennray Tutor.
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The Wives of Marty Winters
Gay rights activist Selena
Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride
celebration.
She’s rushed to the hospital where a blood clot is
removed from her brain. She slips into a coma. Her extended family gathers
to wait and see if she is going to recover.
Her husband, Marty, and their friend Chloe think
they know who shot her. They’re sure it’s the same Neo-Nazi who beat up
their son fifteen years earlier.
Will Selena ever come out of the coma? Will the
shooter ever be caught? And why did the woman with the red cape try to
take the bullet for Selena? To answer these questions, we have to go back
to 1960 and live through this entertaining family saga of Marty Winters
and his wives.
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Imprudent Zeal
Five characters who come of age at different
times and in different parts of the country are thrown together through
happenstance. They are:
Scully McDonald, a failed
seminarian and recovering alcoholic who is obsessed with the need to
reconcile the loving God of his church with the vengeful God who has
wrecked his life.
Becca
McDonald, a street walker in New York befriended by Scully. Her
cross-country odyssey brings her to the Pacific Northwest.
McKenzie McDonald, Becca's daughter who escapes her mother's world of
drug addiction and prostitution to become a successful gallery owner in
Seattle.
Lane Felts, the Southerner jilted by his lover who goes to New York in
the hope of becoming a famous artist, only to abandon that dream in
order to serve the poor.
And finally...
Palmer
Jackson, the selfish and
self-destructive artist who is lover of both Lane and McKenzie, and who
uses them both.
"This book is the great circus train wreck
that was America from the 1950s to the 1990s.
... A tour de force of autobiographical fiction." - Lew Hamburg, The
Olympian
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Until the
Dawn
Red Warner, an artist from a small town in
Mississippi, makes it big in New York and then vanishes following a
wild party in his SoHo loft. A childhood friend goes in search of the
missing artist, a search that carries him back to his Mississippi home and
a secluded fishing camp on the coastal bayous. Along the way we learn how
a small town football player became a leading artist of his time and about
the shameful secret that has haunted him since he left the
South.
"Blooming bodily desires, racism, and rock
and roll take their turns enlivening the plot, yet the writer's primary
concern is to focus on the growth of an artistic imagination in such fertile
ground." - Larry Johnson, Southern Quarterly
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As If Art
Matters
A look at the essential
elements that lift the best of fine visual art above the mundane,
including reviews ranging from Vincent van Gogh to the New York School to
contemporary video and film artists such as Bill Viola and Sandy Skoglund,
plus reviews of many artists in the Pacific Northwest who are recognized
regionally but who do not enjoy the wider acclaim they richly
deserve.
"Alec Clayton communicates about art in
a thoughtful, personal manner. ...His interpretation reveals a breadth of
knowledge that he generously shares without pretension ... an honest and
clear voice." - Amy McBride, Public Art
Administrator
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In the works
Practicing Zen - a new work by Jack Butler poet and
Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist
Bill's Story - an expanded print version of the story previously published on the Web on a
son's suicide, by Gabi Clayton
untitled memoir - by Alec and Gabi Clayton |
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