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Greenpoint Press
Greenpoint Press was established in 2004 as the publishing arm of the webzine, Ducts.org. Now, as a result of the 2007 merger between Ducts and the New York Writers Workshop, we are part of New York Writers Resources. Our aim is to publish high-quality non-fiction that might otherwise be neglected by commercial publishers, with an emphasis on "personal stories" with a strong narrative and distinctive voice.
All Books By This Author:
- Swann's Last Song
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Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money. When a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, Harry Janus, he smiles and takes the cash.
If you're as big a fan of detective noir fiction, then you will truly enjoy Swann's Last Song. This tour-de-force pulls you relentlessly into the dark underbelly of mankind's constant greed and propensity for violence. Swann, who prefers to call himself a "skip-tracer" is as hard-boiled as they come. But despite his toughness, cynicism, humor and knowledge of people's ulterior motives, he finds himself in constant danger of his life as the case takes him from New York, to California, to Mexico, and even Germany! This novel, funny at times and downright scary at others, is peopled with a cast of 3-dimensional characters right out of a Bogart or Cagney movie and pulls you along relentlessly for the ride.Nominated for 2009 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel.
- Genres: Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
- Between Heaven and Earth: An Adventure in Free Fall
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"Between Heaven and Earth: An Adventure in Free Fall" by Doug Garr chronicles the author's coming of age as a skydiver between 1969 and 1982. It's an exciting chronicle of the feelings he experienced. Along the way, he profiles many of the zany characters he met on this unique thrill ride through the skies.
- Genres: Entertainment, Humor, Travel, Other Interests
- Long Gone
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Life in the 1930s and '40s on the small family farms in eastern Iowa was threadbare and tough. It was made endurable by the web of humanity spun by the men and women who built their lives there. The land itself seemed indifferent to its relentless exploitation and yet people, towns, farms and landscape endured in some fashion. The best parts of the farm stayed with Richard Willis when he left, while the rest is long gone.
- Genres: Biographies, Entertainment, Family, General, Humanities
- New York in the Fifties
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While Allen Ginsberg howled that the best minds of his generation were being destroyed by madness, Wakefield, who lived in the same town, was high on just being there, on making it as a freelance writer if not yet as a novelist, on the camaraderie he found in Greenwich Village, on hanging around with James Baldwin, Vance Bourjaily, Norman Mailer, Seymour Krim, John Gregory Dunne, Gay Talese, William Buckley and other "writer writers" who would later become our eminences grises of letters. Wakefield had fled Indianapolis in 1952 to study at Columbia; yet eight years later, "all scratched out," he would flee New York City--and end up in Boston, permanently. This is his memoir of '50s Manhattan, a charmed, gentle, evocative re-creation of a time when sex was more talked about than done (and when done, was done in secret), a time when psychoanalysis was hailed as the new religion, booze was the soporific, Esquire and the Village Voice the journalistic pacesetters, jazz the music. Then the atmosphere changed: McCarthyism hovered, Timothy Leary came around with the "cure-all elixir" psilocybin, the Beatles landed. Wakefield, whose novels include Home Free , has written his generation's kinder-spirited Moveable Feast , marking his era as a cultural divide.Litterateurs will treasure the book. So will aspirants. --From Publishers Weekly
- Genres: Biographies, Entertainment, History, Humanities, Humor
