St. James Infirmary

<p>a book of short stories by Steven Meloan</p><p><br></p><p>Steven Meloan's writing has been seen in <em>Wired Rolling Stone Los Angeles BUZZ</em> the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> and <em>SF Weekly</em>. His fiction has appeared in <em>SOMA Magazine</em> the <em>Sonoma Valley Sun</em> Lummox Press and Newington Blue Press as well as at Litquake Quiet Lightning and other Bay Area literary events. He has regularly written for the <em>Huffington Post</em> and is co-author of the novel <em>The Shroud</em> with his brother Michael. He is a recovered software programmer and was a street busker in London Paris and Berlin.</p><p><br></p><p>Reading these stories I felt like I was hearing an original voice for the very first time. They are surreal cinematic poetic and have real punch-with everything I could want in a collection of short fiction. Set in California and Europe from the 1960s to the 1980s they vividly capture lost times and lost places. They have echoes of Jack Kerouac and Paul Bowles and can be read again and again with a sense of wonder and pleasure.-Jonah Raskin Author of <em>Beat Blues San Francisco 1955 </em></p>