Escrit Lit: 3 books

A haunting little piece that moves from everyday humdrum to the kind of violent ultra-reality more familiar to "TJ" citizens than to Americans and other First World citizens, "Just WAKE UP" also resonates from the dissonance of its deadpan text and delicate drawing. Just as the "end" of the "story" is not what the reader expects, there is an odd, questioning air behind the entire project.

The title might be an entry in the controversy surrounding pirating of ebooks--and a suggested motto for unknown indie writers who are concerned about it. But the content is strictly pleasure reading: shorts and samples from books by Linton Robinson. Some are complete short pieces, some are chapters...

Over my writing career (if you want to call it that) I've done a lot of kinds of writing. I freelanced for magazines and newspapers, ran mail-order catalogs, syndicated columns, wrote promotion and advertising, published literary journals, did poetry and novels and screenplays. I won awards in...