Tag: Mordecai of Monterey
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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…
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YOU WERE
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/ PoemRead More →: YOU WEREThis poem by Keith was written in August 1967, a few months after the death of his own father who died a week after Keith’s daughter Persephone was born.
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Who was Mordecai?
Read More →: Who was Mordecai?Who was the role model for Mordecai of Monterey? None other than Michael Sowl, the poet! And just how was it possible edit and prepare Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel for (re)publication?
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Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?
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/ MysteryRead More →: Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?What’s missing in the archives? My father’s records of his friendships. Why? Because my mother may have edited the archives. My father should be allowed to speak for himself and I encourage the person or persons who have these missing materials to send them to the archives at the University of Western Washington at Bellingham.…
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Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?
Read More →: Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?This is my summer project — the novel that is — but I suspect that the missing materials will take longer than a summer to find.