MUSIC IN EVERY ROOM charts the third world journey of John Krich, dreamer but doer, and his traveling partner, Iris, once a happy college cheerleader, now feminist and hopeful mystic. No matter their differing personalities, their offbeat style and stereopticon vision work. They report Macao, Bali, Thailand, Katmandu, Calcutta, the Himalayas, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey as few have ever seen them. "Krich's literate, frequently caustic tale is a triumph. MUSIC IN EVERY ROOM is a new age adventure, a humorous spoof by an award-winning novelist on the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

Music in every room: Around the world in a bad mood

Travel

Krich, John

Asia

McGraw=Hill

Set in Berkeley, California, this novel follows Martin Pepper, a sixties counterculture and Me decade survivor, as he faces the hardships of the Reagan eighties

One Big Bed

Literature & Fiction

Around the World in a Bad Mood: Music in Every Room

Faber and Faber Ltd.

A Totally Free Man

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Simon & Schuster Books

An in-depth study of how the country incorporates music into its daily life and into its rituals for mourning and celebration

WHY IS THIS COUNTRY DANCING?

Arts & Photography

Music

Simon&Schuster

Why Is This Country Dancing?: A One-Man Samba to the Beat of Brazil

Touchstone Books

John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible, courageous girlfriend, Iris, an ex-cheerleader turned mystic from Liberty, Texas. These two abandon Berkeley for uneasy locales where the first and third worlds rarely butt heads, thus abandoning air conditioning and all the other assumptions and comforts of home. They acquire blisters in the Himalayas and dengue fever in Bali, smoke opium with a suspected CIA agent and fend off the supplications of lost hippies and Gandhian holy men alike. They discover that the Pomp and Joy Lodge in Taramarang harbors bedbugs, and the famed shadow puppets of Indonesia take second billing to reruns of I Dream of Jeannie.” What they don’t find is nirvana, satori, or freedom from the crassness of the West

Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood (Traveler)

History

Atlantic Monthly Press

Investigates the national fascination with baseball in Central America, the many ways in which the game and baseball culture differ from North American versions, and the meaning of baseball to Pan-American sensibility

El Beisbol: Travels Through the Pan-American Pastime

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Atlantic Monthly Pr

An unauthorized biography of Fidel Castro that is a compelling serio-comic exploration into the mind of one of contemporary history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures.

A Totally Free Man: Unauthorized Autobiography of Fidel Castro

Bookpeople

What happens when a modern day princess asks National Geographic photographer Justin Guariglia and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter John Krich to chronicle and capture all the color and complexities of a critical, yet little-known corner of the Orient? The stunning result is Johor: Asia Latitude One, offering hours of pleasure for armchair explorers and a rare view of a magical realm's remarkable variety of humanity. Packaged by de.MO's acclaimed graphic designer Giorgio Baravalle in a contemporary style, this gem of photojournalism is plucked from the sun-lit balm of a realm whose very name means, "jewel land."

Johor: Asia Latitude One

Photography & Video

de.Mo Design Limited

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