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The Geography of Nowhere
The Geography of Nowhere, my first non-fiction book on the tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside where we live and work. I argued that the mess we’ve made of our everyday environment was not merely the symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the primary causes of our troubles. “We
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Maggie Darling
Maggie Darling, A Modern romance. This was my ‘Martha Stewart’ novel, a lot of fun to write. Set in Connecticut, New York City, and Vermont, the story follows the romantic misadventures of a media goddess celebrated for her domestic skills. It begins at a Christmas Eve party among the wealthy and celebrateded, and ends in
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Other Books by JHK
(Mostly out of print but some are available through AMAZON and the ADVANCED BOOK EXCHANGE) You wouldn’t know it, but I actually published a whole bale of novels before I started writing nonfiction about architecture and our human ecology. All of the novels are currently out-of-print. You have to search the flea markets, the used bookshops, or the
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The Wampanaki Tales
Doubleday 1979Kids at a summer camp. Has it’s moments but, hey, it’s a first novel. Probably a collector’s item. Order From: AMAZON
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The Life of Byron Janes
WW Norton 1983Story of a rock and roll star thought to be dead but discovered living an anonymous and reclusive life in a back corner of New England. The story cuts back and forth between the 1960s and the then-present day of the narration, which is in the voice of a music journalist who discovers
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A Clown in the Moonlight
St Martin’s Press 1981A marriage farce set on the campus of an artsy progressive Vermont college. Originally titled “Brain Damge: A Love Story” but the publisher made me change it. (They thought it evoked an unsavory image of retards in love.) The few critics who reviewed it clobbered me for being “just another mouthy college
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Dial Press 1985A favorite. Tour de force historical comedy (1803) about two bumbling botonists sent into the southern wilderness by Thomas Jefferson to look for something that isn’t there. In the spirit of Louis and Clark (who make cameo appearences). Replete with wild Indians, river rirates, the kidnapped son of Louis XVI, the lost colony of Roanoke,
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The Halloween Ball
Bantam 1987Another favorite. The story takes place from dawn until late at night on Halloween in an upstate New York town and revolves sort of cinematically around the lives of four characters in their 30s — all men — who are colliding with the task of finally growing up one way or another. A serious
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Thunder Island
Bantam 1989By the time I composed this novel, I was getting a little burnt out from writing one after another to pay the light bill. The story takes place at a Hamptons-like beach resort town in 1967. It’s about what happens to a New York City kid the summer after he graduates from high school,
Blood Solstice
Blood SolsticeDoubleday 1986Story about a newspaper reporter who gets mixed up with religious cult killers. Set in a small, mid-American city. It’s narrated by the reporter and has a nice wacky, hapless quality about it. Loosely based on my own experience as a reporter back in the 1970s, when I specialized in investigating religious cult
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The Hunt
Tor Books 1988If the creature is just a legend, then what is trying to kill you?Ha…!I wrote this novel back in 1975 when I worked for Rolling Stone in San Francisco, getting up at four o’clock in the morning to work on it. I couldn’t sell the damn thing until 1986 or so — and then only
February 2013
Behold the new Perot Museum of Science and History in Dallas, Texas in all its magnificent cubosity! Wow, what an original idea!
January 2013
This abortion, an observation tower for Phoenix, AZ, is described by one wag as a giant toilet cleaning brush. Are you sick yet? Well, then get a load of the view:
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At the End of the World:
A Fractal Meta-Loco Narrative in E-flat Major
A highly-compressed, super-charged novella about the Apocalypse.
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Living in the Long Emergency
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Too Much Magic
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The nationally best-selling author of "The Long Emergency" expands on his alarming argument that our oil-addicted, technology-dependent society is on the brink of collapse—that the long emergency has already begun. Published by the Atlantic Monthly Press.
