Patrick's sister Colleen, a Down's syndrome child, helps him to appreciate various experiences, including going to mass and seeing their first rainbow

Are There Stripes in Heaven?

Children's Books

Klein, Lee

Literature & Fiction

Paulist Pr

As they get to know each other and face a frightening situation together, two boys from neighboring tribes discover that although they practice different religions, they are very much alike

Sharing the Sun

Churning like a third-world traveler’s stomach, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World is a travelogue about finding the unexpected in familiar places. A frustrated shipper of rare books at a Boston bookstore (who refers to himself as "The Egotourist") returns to his parents’ suburban New Jersey home to work temporary jobs and earn enough money to take a hundred buses to Cuzco, Peru. Alternating among essays, dialogues, and short spiels, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World rolls with the Egotourist’s restlessness as he tells of long-distance love, Black Sabbath cover bands, flirtatious administrative assistants, minotauric secretaries, and camaraderie in copy centers, all of it heading toward a hard-earned trip south of the border. Ultimately, the Egotourist discovers that what he sought in far-flung destinations is just as easily found in the unexpected exoticism of home.

Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World

Travel

Travel Writing

Better Non Sequitur

Literary Nonfiction. THANKS AND SORRY AND GOOD LUCK compiles a dozen years of disappointment transmitted via e-mail from a single editor to hundreds of writers around the world. Performative and funny one minute, respectful and constructive the next, these rejections both serve as entertaining writing tips (suitable for use in today's more adventuresome creative writing classrooms) and suggest a skewed story about a boy and his seminal literary website, Eyeshot.net, which Lee Klein founded in 1999. What started as a lark—sending playful rejection notes to writers who'd submitted work for the site—over ten years took on a life of its own, becoming an outlet for Klein to meditate on his aesthetic preferences, the purpose of literature, and the space between the ideal and the real.

Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejections From the Eyeshot Outbox

History & Criticism

Barrelhouse Books

Author Lee Kleins longtime service in the US Navy took him from World War II as an enlisted man through the Korean and Vietnam eras as a commissioned officer. A gay man, he had to balance his top secret military life with his loving one. In Two Journeys to One Wondrous Life, Klein shares the story of his life. The seventh of eight children, he was born in 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. During his military career, he served in naval bases from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the North and Baltic Seas, and he worked as a carrier pilot during the Cold War. Klein also worked in the restaurant business, opening his first restaurant in 1972, in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. His life has been an incredible, wonder-filled, surprisingly serendipitous, happy life of two journeys, and he hopes that by telling his life story, he can show a new generation what it was like to live through these restrictive times, when many careers were closed to gay men, and how it just gets better. This memoir shares the personal narrative of a gay man who is a veteran of a decades-long military career, recalling his experiences of a life well lived.

Two Journeys to One Wondrous Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

iUniverse

Fiction. JRZDVLZ is the autobiography of a sympathetic monster on a centuries-spanning quest for redemption. Based on long-suffering legend and historical fact, it's about the sacrifice, civility, endurance, and humility required to transform a monster into a man.

JRZDVLZ

Sagging Meniscus Press

This autofiction by Lee Klein, framed by his attending a Sunn O))) concert in Philadelphia on 18 March 2017, two months after Trump's inauguration, is an opportunity for inquiry into a variety of subjects, including: anxiety, edibles, solitude, talent, self-realisation, responsibility, dry ice, fog, Seasons 52, Guitar Center, effect pedals, improvising, paying attention, rearing children, raising fists, anticipating mass shootings, deleting Twitter, assassinating the president, public flatulence, private resistance, moral alignment, and the search for pure tone.

Neutral Evil )))

Chaotic Good-the complement to Neutral Evil ))), a short novel published in 2020 about seeing Sunn O))) in Philadelphia on March 18, 2017-presents another polythematic core sample of existence, this time about taking the train to NYC to see a band-as far removed from Sunn O))) as possible-at "the world's most famous arena" on December 28, 2019 after walking too far in Brooklyn with an old troubled friend, intermittently concerned about an imminent storm of excrement, all capped by the nightly procession of nearly invisible satellites. It's an associative cascade about a foundational synesthesiac experience after an unforeseen change of plans, a cylindrical hotel deserving demolition, the renovated men's bathroom in New York Penn Station, untangling headphone cords, cleaning house before moving out, logging the past versus planning the future, ADHD, autism, Alzheimer's, preferring the documentary to the drama, waiting too long in car for spouse to return from hellacious megastore, wielding plunger on dented bumper, walking with young daughter around where you grew up, the composed part followed by the improvised part, intentionally losing now to win later, remembering once in a while that the trick is to surrender to the flow.

Chaotic Good

United States

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