Category: Mordecai of Monterey
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4. KEEP TWISTING
Read More →: 4. KEEP TWISTINGPart Four from Twisting in the Wind: A Memoir of Ken Kesey at Naropa University 1994 by Keith Kumasen Abbott Sitting at the dining table, Kesey continued to drop pleasantries about my book, praising Mordecai of Monterey. I was starting to feel a little sour at the situation. Kesey could have written something to my…
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3. TWISTING IN THE WIND
Read More →: 3. TWISTING IN THE WINDA Memoir of Ken Kesey at Naropa University 1994 by Keith Kumasen Abbott Part Three That July in 1994 turned out to be the hottest month in recorded Colorado history. The heat didn’t help the disposition of anyone at Naropa. On Tuesday afternoon, the day after the performance, students vented their feelings about Twister as…
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Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985
Read More →: Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985“Keith Abbott may be called a near-master of the plain-style…..Mordecai of Monterey is a straightforward touching tale…The novel is often funny…always inventive and worth pursuing. Doris Grunbach * “I was so struck by Mordecai’s melanoia I wished to immediately catch it. Aas it is symptomatic of our times that adventures and unpredictability have to be…
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18/53 Book of Songs
Read More →: 18/53 Book of SongsA promo card for Mordecai of Monterey, 1985 Excerpt from Mordecai of Monterey by Keith Kumasen Abbott: An hour later Mordecai was standing at the foot of Rita’s stairs. He did not want to be standing there. Mordecai was having his first crisis with his mental disease. He could not believe that his melanoia had…
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Routine Apparitions:
Read More →: Routine Apparitions:A fictional novel in blog form Keith Abbott’s important notebooks and manuscripts have gone missing. But so is Keith because he died years ago. This doesn’t stop the ghost of the Zen monk from wandering around Longmont Colorado looking for his stuff while busy solving crimes with his zany buddies. Of course he has the…
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Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General in Big Sur
Read More →: Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General in Big Sur“There was a ship going someplace. It was a Norwegian ship. Perhaps it was going back to Norway, carrying the hides of 163 cable cars, as part of the world commerce deal. Ah, trade: one country exchanging goods with another country, just like in grade school. They traded a rainy spring day in Oslo for…
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Mordecai of Monterey re-released
Read More →: Mordecai of Monterey re-releasedIn August 2024 Mordecai of Monterey was re-released and is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon. Mordecai of Monterey is a comic novel set in 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandale. From the landscape that inspired Cannery Row, the hero Mordecai discovers that he has been gifted with melanoia – the opposite of paranoia.…
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What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?
Read More →: What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?It’s coming up to the fifth year anniversary of Keith Kumasen Abbott’s death. In honor of my father I have re-released his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey. Working with a friend, the new cover is a reflection of the original cover. Water was a significant theme in my father’s later art work. His ashes were…