Don Shogren: 2 books

Richard Anderson has had better years. His wife is "recently misplaced," as he puts it, the construction business they shared floundering on the same rocks. The bank is after the lovely lakeside house he built for them, and anything else nailed down, ironically. And his father is dying, even while...

Slojo is Richard Anderson, a singer/songwriter suddenly emerging from a modern American tradition of median existence. Many years of struggle with life and love have instilled a complex, conflicted sensibility in Slojo that is at once engaged and detached. Driven and casual. Appreciative and disappointed....