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A note from my friend Alan Rifkin regarding his new novel......
Dear everyone:
In a bit of exciting, actually mind-boggling news, some favorite recording artists--Jerry and Debbie Burgan of We Five, Stanley Wycoff with Dave Alvin on lead guitar and harmonies by Chris Gaffney, and David Stadalnikas from Uninvited Dinner Guests--are contributing original songs, and now audio tracks, to my online novel, which will post Thursday, March 19th, as explained below. I'd be really grateful if you could help spread the word in any way you can think of...
Thanks sincerely,
Alan
TITLE: Alt. Country
CATEGORY: NOVEL
ONLINE PUBLICATION: March 19
Alan Rifkin, author of Signal Hill, is posting an advance look at his new novel, ALT. COUNTRY ("A troubadour tale for the 21st Century"--A.W. Hill) beginning March 19th at www.alanrifkin.com. Rifkin hopes to reach as many readers as possible this way rather than send blind queries to publishers in the current book climate.
The web site will also include an audio playlist of original songs from, or for, the novel, contributed by Jerry and Debbie Burgan of pivotal '60s folk-rock ensemble We Five; roots-Americana rocker Stanley Wycoff (lead guitar by Dave Alvin, vocal harmonies by the late Chris Gaffney); and David Stadalnikas of Long Beach's psychedelically folky Uninvited Dinner Guests.
The Los Angeles Times Book Review called Rifkin's first fiction collection "[H]auntingly beautiful, the work of a gifted storyteller with a sharp eye but a tender heart." Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Rifkin is what might have happened had Nathanael West lived on and been even more talented . . . . Exquisite." Time Out New York wrote: "Rifkin writes with such startling originality and authority that you have to believe he'll be the next darling of the literary world."
A former Details Magazine/L.A. Weekly contributing editor, Rifkin has been a finalist for both the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction and the 2003 PEN-Center USA Award in Journalism.
A story of hard-won, compromised but still magnetic love, Alt. Country tracks the modern legend of Harvey Kooper, a former alternative-country singer-songwriter trying to live right. Haunted by the mistakes of a lifetime, he runs from near-fame, leads spiritual fasts in the San Fernando Valley ("Country Music's Salinger," a bartender calls him), finds Jesus, marries a radio host who spins musical dreams of half-remembered pasts . . . and then recreates all the chaos and tragedy he had tried to break free of. Meanwhile he is shadowed by a faded, possibly delusional, Rolling Stone reporter who believes that the artist's slide to obscurity is a story for our times. 250 pgs.
Synopsis, chapter installments and audio tracks will post at www.AlanRifkin.com
In a bit of exciting, actually mind-boggling news, some favorite recording artists--Jerry and Debbie Burgan of We Five, Stanley Wycoff with Dave Alvin on lead guitar and harmonies by Chris Gaffney, and David Stadalnikas from Uninvited Dinner Guests--are contributing original songs, and now audio tracks, to my online novel, which will post Thursday, March 19th, as explained below. I'd be really grateful if you could help spread the word in any way you can think of...
Thanks sincerely,
Alan
TITLE: Alt. Country
CATEGORY: NOVEL
ONLINE PUBLICATION: March 19
Alan Rifkin, author of Signal Hill, is posting an advance look at his new novel, ALT. COUNTRY ("A troubadour tale for the 21st Century"--A.W. Hill) beginning March 19th at www.alanrifkin.com. Rifkin hopes to reach as many readers as possible this way rather than send blind queries to publishers in the current book climate.
The web site will also include an audio playlist of original songs from, or for, the novel, contributed by Jerry and Debbie Burgan of pivotal '60s folk-rock ensemble We Five; roots-Americana rocker Stanley Wycoff (lead guitar by Dave Alvin, vocal harmonies by the late Chris Gaffney); and David Stadalnikas of Long Beach's psychedelically folky Uninvited Dinner Guests.
The Los Angeles Times Book Review called Rifkin's first fiction collection "[H]auntingly beautiful, the work of a gifted storyteller with a sharp eye but a tender heart." Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Rifkin is what might have happened had Nathanael West lived on and been even more talented . . . . Exquisite." Time Out New York wrote: "Rifkin writes with such startling originality and authority that you have to believe he'll be the next darling of the literary world."
A former Details Magazine/L.A. Weekly contributing editor, Rifkin has been a finalist for both the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction and the 2003 PEN-Center USA Award in Journalism.
A story of hard-won, compromised but still magnetic love, Alt. Country tracks the modern legend of Harvey Kooper, a former alternative-country singer-songwriter trying to live right. Haunted by the mistakes of a lifetime, he runs from near-fame, leads spiritual fasts in the San Fernando Valley ("Country Music's Salinger," a bartender calls him), finds Jesus, marries a radio host who spins musical dreams of half-remembered pasts . . . and then recreates all the chaos and tragedy he had tried to break free of. Meanwhile he is shadowed by a faded, possibly delusional, Rolling Stone reporter who believes that the artist's slide to obscurity is a story for our times. 250 pgs.
Synopsis, chapter installments and audio tracks will post at www.AlanRifkin.com
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