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Hear James J Patterson read "The Lovesick Lake"   "Lovers of the personal essay should be rejoicing in the streets at word of this collection. For readers and acquaintances of Jimmy Patterson, it is long overdue, but the author was born in Washington, D.C., where the machinery of progress is congenitally slow. So this book, in many important ways - is what all satisfying collections of autobiographical essays should be - a mirror of place." Rick Walter Armistice Day, known in the US as Veteran's Day, is now a work week past, but for James J Patterson it is a memory and idea that … [Read more...]

The World of Yesterday (Armistice Day, 2018) An Essay by James J Patterson  From the forthcoming collection Junk Shop Window   My father always said that his first memory was of standing on the couch in his parent’s living room, small hands on the back cushion, peering out a picture widow at a neighborhood street in Bend, Oregon. There is a slow-moving line of cars and horse-drawn carriages inching its way down the lane. The line of cars is there every day, and every day he stands there and watches. His street is a long one and at the end of it is the cemetery. He … [Read more...]

Linda Watanabe McFerrin Interviewed for Author Mathew Felix's Video Podcast Author and poet Linda Watanabe McFerrin sat down with Mathew Felix, himself an author of some renown, for Mathew's video podcast this last weekend. What follows is an in-depth, thoughtful, and often irreverent look at writing, life, travel, and zombies. And more, the listener may become privy to many of those juicy and illusive details surrounding Linda's new Legacy Book due out from ASP in Autumn 2019. Check out the interview below. Linda starts to talk about ASP and her Legacy Book ~50 minutes in. and don't … [Read more...]

Fact or Fiction By Joanna Biggar As a fiction writer, it is not uncommon to be asked: “Is that real, or did you make it up?”  This was certainly true for my first novel, That Paris Year, based on my own experiences as a young woman attending the Sorbonne in the 1960s. It was assumed that the narrator, whose name, J.J., includes the same initials as my name, are one and the same person. And if that is true, the thinking goes, everything else in the book must be “real,” too. One French reader even wanted to know how my French grandmother was getting along and was shocked to learn that I … [Read more...]

Featured Poetry: "Bluebirds" by Grace Cavalieri Grace Cavalieri is the epitome of cool. She's been a publishing poet for over 40 years and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, even now she grows and develops, her style reforms, and, like Donald Hall, she's forgone looking back entirely and instead looks within. This idea is very well suited to the goals and organization of ASP's Legacy books. It is so in Grace's Legacy Book, Other Voices, Other Lives, which is a testament not just to a broad range, but to an adaptive, keen, and wonderfully empathic heart. Grace Cavalieri is goals. On a … [Read more...]