Grant Flint: 8 books

Prairie fires, sod houses, covered wagons, pioneer medicine. Cow chips, prairie dances, claim jumpers, mules, buggies, prairie schools. Breaking horses, hay ticks, flowing wells, Fourth of July on the prairie, blizzards, pioneer schools ... For a half century my mother told these stories, first to me,...

“Poems for We Who Do Not Like Poems” is 59 short poems for those who experience most poetry as precious, opaque, cultish, useless, pretentious, and masturbationary. The poems here are brief, direct, humorous, dramatic, sensual. The subjects are sex, humor, storms, The Great Depression, Nebraska,...

"The Naked Beach" is the final book in the Harry Powers' seven-book series, "The Innocent Sensualist." Half of the 28 chapters have been published in literary quarterlies. The realism of Harry's "adventures" most resembles the sensual portrayals of Henry Miller, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Charles Bukowski:...

Each chapter of Harry Power’s life is a woman. The Sexologist, the Preacher Lady, the Midwife, the Doll Maker, Ginger the Stand-up Comedian, Cara the Belly Dancer, Tessie the Home Nurse… 37 sensual stories from real life. 19 of the stories published in literary journals. Time now, immediately, to...

The fatherless boy, Harry, on his grandmother’s dirty little Nebraska farm during the Great Depression and dust storms, 1930’s, wants to escape east to the big cities – Omaha, Chicago, New York City, Paris. His 14-year-old uncle torments him, pretending to be a snake ghost; his smothering mother...

DESCRIPTION "The Great American Novel, A Memoir" is a novel disguised as a memoir, a memoir disguised as a novel. A life, stripped down to its essence. Thomas Wolfe, aping Charles Bukowski. A short story of a long story. 80 years. The bet that the author's life is more interesting than fiction. "What...

"All the Lovely Freaks" is 24 stories (11 previously published in literary journals) of sexual, religious, and psychopathological fetishes, compulsions, phobias, and other very human oddities, taken from real life. Included are revelations about Dr. Mumu, afflicted with a medically- induced perpetual...

Three million words, seven books, 137 short stories written, Now in one book, reporting a life, no time for the sins of fiction. True life, real life, two sons dead from suicide, daughter’s rape, schizophrenic/alcoholic second wife savaging all hope, bankruptcies, hitchhiking on land and air two times...