another essay

As I mentioned, Good Deed Rain is
also working on publishing a book
of essays. Here's another essay that
will appear in that book:


http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/10/jack-kerouac-film-noir.html

FABLE

"There's something going on in this country
and I can best relate it in fable: the parable of
the rabbits, a child's bedtime story, and the
diary of our trip to Ohio."

NEW book, FABLE

This is the cover spread for the
NEW Good Deed Rain book, FABLE.
Featuring the amazing cover paintings
by Good Deed Rain artist, Laura Vasyutynska.
She also did artwork for DIFFERENT PLANET,
HOMELESS SUTRA and ALMOST ANIMALS.
When I saw these political paintings she made
last year, I had to write a book for them.
This is that book.
Publishing date is set for this October 10.

essay book

Hello again. Just wanted to let you know
that I am also compiling a book of
interesting essays.

This is a link to one of those.

http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/05/entering-water-and-escaping.html

2 new Good Deed Rain books for Fall

A new Good Deed Rain book is due in October.
More on that soon. Also, another really wild
new novel featuring gorilla suits, Tom Robbins,
Crash Corrigan, Bob Hope, B-movies, pirate radio,
a paper Brooklyn Bridge, office drudgery and
Pretty Boy Floyd...Good Deed Rain artist
Aaron Gunderson is returning with more
amazing art for it. This photo is a further hint
as to what's in store. Stay tuned!

movie time

A double feature:

The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Charlie Chan The Golden Eye (1948)

The first film is based on a Raymond Chandler
story "Farewell My Lovely." It also reminds me
of Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon.

Cronco and Marconi celebrate

An exclusive picture of our heroes
from The Robotic Age, Cronco and
Marconi, celebrating the publication
out on the town. Thanks Aaron, good
to see our friends again.

Kennedy review

Thank you to Larry Smith for this review of new book Kennedy:

Allen Frost’s new novel Kennedy, moves us 20 years ahead 

from his previous Roosevelt into the week around the Cuban 

Missile Crisis in October 1962. “Vintage” best describes this 

intimate tale of a young boy and his relationships with life in 

Bellingham, Washington, with girls, and with his much-loved 

grandparents. As in all of Frost’s work, the poet emerges in 

the details and in the swing of the prose, capturing youthful 

sensitivity and the emotions around love and loss.

The highway coming through his town forebodes disruption 

and change. “The machinery was already at work on the 

highway. It made a low rumble and clank like the engine 

room of a ferryboat.” His metaphors are little treasures found 

along the trail of this book’s details and plot. When he allows 

his mind to focus on a young classmate, “The yellow pencil 

drifted off course from words about the Colony and before 

he knew it, it had written Caroline. Her name had appeared 

so out of the blue it looked like someone had planted a 

flower in all those rows of lead colored words.”  

When his grandmother faces a great loss, he finds her 

changed, “She seemed to float out; he felt like he was 

holding onto a paper version of his grandmother. She 

could have been folded origami. If the breeze was any 

stronger, she might be swept into the sky.” These 

marvelous lines are woven around a simple plot that 

includes the words of then President John F. Kennedy 

whose courage and character balance out the losses 

then, as it still does today.

Thanks to Fred Sodt for his classic illustrations. 

Kennedy is woven in history and perspective 

and is a book for all time.

https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Allen-Frost/dp/1643703994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536190900&sr=1-1&keywords=allen+frost+kennedy

new books coming

I'm finishing up editing new book inspired
by travels to Ohio this summer. Also 8 other
books on the horizon. Stay tuned...