Bøger af Chris Sullivan

88 Persons of Interest in the Murder of John F. Kennedy, investigated by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1978

The Green box A dubious businessman ends up on the streets after a disastrous deal; he loses everything, even his self-respect. Befriended by a stray dog that helps him recover from alcoholism and depression, he comes to terms with reality and rebuilds his life. This is the story of his journey.

All billboards in New Orleans in the fall of 2005 were underperforming; if not rendered absurd or irrelevant by catastrophe, erased by the hurricane to blither like old TV screens tuned to grey noise. Many would stay that way for months and years as advertisers had no interest targeting a much depopulated city beset and preoccupied with basic concerns. Closer to the ground, language sprouted. Ugly mass produced plastic signs advertising recovery services proliferated and many took matters into their own hands: with a can of spray paint, shard of plywood and a useful service to proclaim, a person was in business. This book promotes those efforts and imagines the billboard as a civic witness, memorial, reflection and marquee for stories from an extraordinary time.

I jotted "Lyric Flypaper Paging Chris Sullivan" in a composition notebook at a trio of connected metal-vinyl waiting chairs at the Wound Clinic, Medical Center of Louisiana New Orleans, all occupied and mine next to a large woman in an overwhelmingly aggressive perfume, nor a hopeful portent for the diagnosis I waited for; I'd make a book of the lyrics I'd written and stole from things and places and people like Jake Fussell telling me about Phenix City, and Butch Anthony saying anything, posted on telephone poles or assigned to 1st graders or a Brief Introduction of the Product Cushion, or the Citibank billboard that taught me to wonder: is your purse is the arena of president who dies? Songs from 1978-2013 including Chris and the Fifthwheels with Don Curran 1982-7 and Thingnamer with Jake, 2003

In 1966, just two weeks after the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street Dublin, Eddie McGrath is knocked down and killed by the airport bus near the spot where the Pillar used to stand.His death makes his seventeen year old daughter, Nuala, an orphan. She never knew her mother, Gertie, at all, and when she looks into her father's things she finds items of her mother that deeply disturb her. Set in Dublin, Sligo and Donegal, 'Who Was Gertie Ford?' will introduce the reader to the west coast of Ireland, as Nuala searches for Gertie in a world of adventure, heartbreak and tragedy.

Why does Alfredo keep telling stories? He has a story and a title for all occasions of his experience: A Jew in Tunisia, The Bloomsday Blackout. . . but the Hollywood Moguls are not interested in Alfredo's stories; so he writes a masterpiece for the theatre about the last night on earth of James Joyce.This is an Irish novel set in Los Angeles. It tells the story of Alfredo Hunter, a depressive Jewish/Irish playwright who is in Hollywood to make a killing in the film business. We also meet the unknown narrator, who observes Alfredo's various fluctuations and swings of mood and humour. Humour is to the fore in this novel of a building friendship between two Dubliners as they encounter the New World, with its new language and confusing mores.

A riotous history of people and things that broke the mould