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“A satirical novel that manages to combine both mystery and sci-fi genres….Action aplenty …and fast dialogue.” — L.A. Times Book Review, Dec. 30, 1979 “Keith Abbott is a brilliant, virtuoso writer….He fascinates. He creates and maintains a climate of everyday perfection, and does it by destroying consistency. — Die Zeit, March 11, 1994 “This is…
“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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From Tacoma to Longmont to Albuquerque – Persephone Abbott is visiting with family and friends.
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Keith Kumasen Abbott reads an excerpt from the novel: “This Music Can Be Heard in Your Area Only”. This fantastic story from the (missing) novel is a reference to Keith’s experiences in the mid 1980’s with his friend, the poet John Veglia (aka Nestor Marzipan). Graphic novelist Mimi Pond produced two books ‘Over Easy” and…
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What happened to poet/author/artist Keith Kumasen Abbott’s notebooks/journals and manuscripts? They are not at the archives of the University of Western Washington at Bellingham.
In 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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Persephone is in the USA visiting with family and friends and will be visiting the partial archives of Keith’s material in Bellingham. Her blog is here: 2024 USA Travel.