Available now from Gertrude Press (select chapbooks from the catalog)
Fiction, b&w, chapbook staple, 22 pages.
Winner of 2008 Gertrude Chapbook Competition for Fiction.
$8.00
A darkly comic and oddly touching story of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and a plane crash that crushes human bodies while leaving the mandolins unharmed. In Mixing Tracks, Jan Steckel strikes an unsettling balance between the consolations of memory, the thrilling ephemerality of youthful ambition, and our shared need for connection, even (or especially) when our world seems to have to come to its end.
Front cover illustration by Tristram Wolff
Available now from Zeitgeist Press and on Amazon.
To order from the author within the U.S.A., please send a check for $6.25 for each book (which includes postage and handling) made out to Jan Steckel at PO Box 18797 / Oakland, CA 94619. Please include your name and mailing address.
Also available at these fine independent bookstores:
You can also find The Underwater Hospital in the James C. Hormel GLBT collection in the San Francisco Public Library.
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author of French Kiss Destiny and editor of the Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review
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author of The Tale of the Miller's Daughter,
editor of Sleeping Beauty, Indeed,
and reviewer for The Pedestal Magazine
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Read JoSelle Vanderhooft's review in The Pedestal Magazine here.
Read Marie Lecrivain's review in Subtle Tea here.
Read Theresa Heath's review in BiMagazine.
Read Merry Gangemi's full review here from Out in the Mountains.
Read a review by Julie Enszer in Galatea Resurrects.
Read a review by Paul Corman-Roberts in Cherry Bleeds.
A review by Mary Meriam in Street Spirit.
Another review by Eugene David.
Read a review by Jack G. Bowman in poeticdiversity.
More about the book by prizewinning writer and editor Beverly A. Jackson.
A snappy description of The Underwater Hospital by East Bay Express literary writer Anneli Rufus.