A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency.

House of Correction

Literature & Fiction

Norman Lock

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Pub

A plausible, impossible fictional addition to the library of great pamphlets that circulated in centuries past. A series of investigations into possibility, these short fictions entertain, amaze and bewilder. A limited edition, highly collectible oversized pamphlet designed in the style of a 1926 Paris pamphlet by Gertrude Stein.

Notes to The Books of Supplemental Diagrams for Marco Knauff's Universe

Ravenna Press

<p>Fiction. LAND OF THE SNOW MEN is a collection of visionary stories and renderings taken from the journals of the enigmatic George Belden, who claimed to be on the tragic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott to reach the South Pole in 1910 through 1912. Norman Lock discovered Belden and his remarkable journal by accident. He had been for some years in Africa, writing a novel, A History of the Imagination. The strain of living in a country as alien as Africa, with little money and little hope of finding a publisher, caused him to have a nervous breakdown. A friend in Mombassa contacted his wife, who arranged for his return and commitment to a private sanitarium in Vermont's Green Mountains. During the final weeks of Lock's recuperation, the institution's chief of staff asked if he would sort through boxes of old files in the sanitarium's basement to determine whether or not any should be kept. In one of those boxes, Lock found LAND OF THE SNOW MEN.</p>

Land of the Snow Men

George Belden

British & Irish

Calamari Press

In this, his fifth full-length book, Norman Lock paints the portrait of a lonely everywoman, a plain Jane who spends days pushing a mop and nights drinking tea, sitting her sadness on her elbow "by the window looking out. Out, where all is hurrying over the rainy streets." Lock paints the portrait of an "old woman with a cracked face" who, as a child, was teased to tears. Now, years later, in the last phase of her life, she is preparing for her own long rowing into death.

The Long Rowing Unto Morning

Escher's Journal