Joseph Zitt

(Sorry for the extended NoJoe… I’ve been crazily busy, both with the retail Christmas deathmarch and with too many projects of my own. Stay tuned for info on an upcoming San Francisco performance of my “Moses (for narrator and string orchestra),” as well as some book publications within the next few months. “The Book of Voices” is continuing as well, with 34 episodes online so far.

One of the biggest projects has been creating a book from my blog entries about my retail job, tentatively entitled “19th Nervous Breakdown.” Here is the opening chapter, written over the past few months:)

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I’ve begun a new writing project, The Book of Voices, which I’m posting to a new blog at wordpress.com. It’s a series of brief texts, written from the points of view of characters from the Bible.

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I’m pleased, proud, and relieved to announce that my father’s novel, Troika, is now in print.

It’s been a process that’s taken over twenty years, counting from the conversation that I had with him that sparked the book, as we sat in a plaza in Tel Aviv in the summer of 1986. While the first draft of the book was complete about ten years later, a wide variety of delays had led it to only being published now.

The official publication date was November 7, the one-year anniversary (according to the Jewish calendar) of my father’s passing. I had let the family know, but held off on a public announcement until I had received a copy of the finished book from the printers. (Fortunately, my father got to see and hold a proof copy in his last days, though he was too tired to look at it for long.)
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Reading Fred’s post to his blog in July about books his daughter was reading, I was inspired to wonder about The Garden of the Plynck. Back in college (or before?), I had read something by one of my favorite writers, ::wikipedia(”Theodore Sturgeon”,”Theodore Sturgeon”):: in which he had said that that book had inspired him when he was young. I’d been looking for it since, intermittently, but it was impossible to get.

I now see that it has dropped out of copyright, and the Gutenberg Project has it! It’s online at several sites in several formats.

It’s definitely landing on my “gotta read this” list.