Fiction. "With deadpan humor, THE POPE STORIES takes on Catholicism, family dynamics, personal paranoia, and the best and worst of our troubled times—a book filled with subtle insights and clever turns of phrase."—Brad Barkley, author of Money, Love and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual

The Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times (VIA Folios)

Literature & Fiction

Guida, George

Contemporary

Bordighera Press

Poetry. Italian American Studies. "Imagine Jonathan Swift with an Italian American sensibility—that's George Guida, a true original with the capacity to be hilarious, surreal and rueful, sometimes all at once. Whether he's traveling abroad or in Florida ('panhandle with mermaids... pray to the immigrants' pink grapefruit god'), casting his eye on suburban life or satirizing the food-and-gangster obsessions of fellow Italian Americans, no detail escapes his penetrating gaze. In 'The Sleeping Gulf,' you'll find humor's brooding underside and glints of light even in life's 'savage wood.'"—Maria Terrone, Author of EYE TO EYE

The Sleeping Gulf

Poetry

Pugilistic

WordTech Communications LLC

"In poems that are in turn part Frank O'Hara, part Woody Allen and part Frank Sinatra, George Guida gives us a book that celebrates love and New York. Unabashed and joyously unapologetic in its romanticism, New York and Other Lovers builds a cityscape of poems where we may all fall head over heels." -Gerry LaFemina, author of The Story of Ash, Vanishing Horizons and Composing Poetry: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Thinking Lyrically "New York and Other Lovers gives us what the title promises and more; it's a love letter to NYC and its residents, past and present, with all their flaws and foibles. It's a book only a New Yorker could write, someone intimate with the subways, streets, and smells. In the tradition of Ginsburg and O'Hara (there's a poem dedicated to each of them in the collection), Guida's universe is vast and varied. From unrequited and lost lovers to the collapsed Twin Towers, Guida's poems work an alchemy like Proust's madeleine to conjure all that haunts us. With empathy, imagination, and wit, he reminds us that we "once had a home." -Jennifer Franklin, author of No Small Gift and Looming "Sometimes they lurch, sometimes they bop. But George Guida's New York poems never stop moving, never give up the restless, relentless pace that is the city. Even when they find a bench, a lover to sing or talk to, the frenetic undertow is ever-present, the heart humming a love song under the bridge, the current taking it uptown and down, and crosstown, where the poet hangs with those whose lives may be lonely, too.Boro by boro, he takes us to places he loved but now is disappointed in. 'Brooklyn has lost its strut, ' he says. But this is still a place for the brokenhearted- 'I don't believe in love/I've tasted it in overnight hot bagels.' Guida makes the city complicit in these betrayals: '...to hang from a white stone ledge by fingernails/above the scene we want to call home.' Still, she's the backdrop he details with great affection, that makes heartache bearable, after all."-Mervyn Taylor, author of No Back Door and The Waving Gallery

New York and Other Lovers

Encircle Publications, LLC

Product Description In Posts from Suburbia, George Guida satirizes the life that most Americans have come to know: the life of lawn care, man caves, shopping clubs, mall cops, gym memberships, murky faith, easy sex in the shadows, cut-rate shrinks, gun-toting postmen, sad cable guys, infinite hobbying, endless holiday decoration, casual bigotry, home improvement, bouncy houses, wedding halls, canned wakes, e-loneliness, ignorant know-it-alls, fridge magnets, yard statues, pool dolphins, trains to nowhere, and moons that won’t give up. At the heart of it all stands Bill, a child of the suburbs who has returned, dumped by his girlfriend, and holding unused degrees from a city university—a still-young man struggling to find a new life among the characters who populate his world, his memory, and his blog. Review Praise for Posts from Suburbia: "In George Guida's Posts from Suburbia, the poet and story writer's debut novel, we see, in the narrator's fragmentary posts, the horrible and often hilarious effects of conformity gone amok in the vinyl-sided cul-de-sacs and Costco-obsessed streets of suburbia. The novel's witty and acerbic account of a fictional town called Middleville is a great, offbeat, engaging take on the American Dream gone upside down, which will make you laugh while questioning your own sometimes desperate need to belong."-Anne Panning, author of Butter: A Novel and SuperAmerica: Stories"Always smart, always funny, George Guida's writing is lucid and entertaining. In Posts from Suburbia, he infuses the banality of the suburbs with his absurdist comic sensibility. From stay-at-home mothers, to mall shoppers, to cantankerous neighbors, Guida portrays the people we know up close. Mom might drive you crazy, but she still has the best sauce in town waiting in the freezer for you when you come home. You'll consume this book like a franchise donut, in one delicious bite."-Mike Fiorito, author of The Hated Ones and Falling from Trees About the Author George Guida is the author of ten books including the forthcoming satirical novel, Posts from Suburbia (Encircle Publications, June 22, 2022), and five collections of poems including New York and Other Lovers (revised edition, Encircle Publications, 2020). His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He teaches writing and literature at New York City College of Technology, and coordinates the Finger Lakes Reading and Performance Series at his family's cafe, the MacFadden Coffee Company, in Dansville, New York. You can follow George on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and visit www.georgeguida.wordpress.com.

Posts from Suburbia

Humor & Satire

Encircle Publications

The year is 1950. A brutal racist attack drives Alfie Bagliato's family from their small town to New York City, where, at sixteen, Alfie dreams of escaping his Italian American enclave through a career in music and a romance with his distant cousin, Adeline. Soon enough, disappointment and frustration lead Alfie to join the military, to follow Adeline to San Francisco, and then to become a New York City cop, whose clash with protestors during the 1968 Columbia University student uprising nearly kills him, forcing him to confront his inherited bigotry and fear, as he wrestles with his lingering love for Adeline and need to find a new life.

The Uniform (World Prose)

United States

Guernica Editions

In his latest collection, George Guida seeks our universal connection through popular culture. His poems follow Michael Jackson onto the dance floor, figure Bob Dylan as a poem, chase Alec Baldwin's living ghost, pray with Aretha Franklin, marry Jay-Z and Beyoncé, cross over with Shakira, smile with the Beach Boys, dream of Barry Manilow, digitize ABBA, fight lost wars with Pearl Jam, fight obscurity with Sly Stone, act with Sarah Bernhardt, die with Vic Morrow, fade away with Kurt Cobain, recover with Amy Winehouse, persist with José Feliciano, and find new life in the Beatles. Blending art, philosophy, metaphor, and humor, Guida's poems transform each song, each performance, each artist into a platform for our ultimate reality.

Zen of Pop

Long Sky Media

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