Fiction. Rochelle Owens hails the stories in SWEET POTATOES as "brilliantly rendered, with resonances of Rabelais, Voltaire, and Mickey Spillane." Harry Mathews calls them "exuberant and richly varied." In each story, an unnamed narrator tells extraordinary tales about parents, lovers, wives good and bad, businessproblems and other afflictions that consume our days. In what he calls the Alphabet stories, Rowan plays with autobiography but, as he notes, "the game is a form, not a congeries of facts." Lou Rowan's stories and essays have appeared regularly in publications devoted to the avant-garde. He is also the editor of the literary magazine, Golden Handcuffs Review, which publishes the innovative work of global authors, along with new discoveries.

Sweet Potatoes

Literature & Fiction

Rowan, Lou

Contemporary

Ahadada Books

<p>Fiction. Like a piano-player striving to make music in a whorehouse, Lou seeks earnestly, desperately to fathom rollicking episodes of crime and corruption on both coasts of the imploding American Empire. A sports-loving western city is ruled by competing megachurches that deal drugs and corrupt young cheerleaders; high-end apartments erected by the Mafia kingpin ruling New Jersey crack like the House of Usher and create a tidal wave in a New Jersey swamp; a socially-prominent professor of psychology wants to obliterate his plucky young ex-lover with an SUV; a WASP socialite-detective contends with a black woman who may be right that her family wants her dead; frustrated wives of aging billionaires molest a talented gay executive in limos and the Temple of Dendur. We meet the elites; we meet the Mafia's Jackhammer, his vengeful wife, the Toilet, and Pustule Pete; we meet Mayor Daley, Governor Uomo, Rudolph Guissilini, and Elliott Spitter—and we meet earnest, intelligent souls like Lou and his friend the retired gay catcher of the New York Mets contending with these mysteries. Could love be the answer to all the problems?</p>

A Mystery's No Problem

Equus Press

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Sweet Potatoes

A Mystery's No Problem