A genre-bending work similar to Edgar Lee Masters’ A SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY; this is a portrait of a fictional New England small town over the past several hundred years, its stories recounted by more than a hundred voices, those of the living – white, Black, Native American, male, female, gay – and of the dead, […]
ECHOES or, The Insistence of Memory
Ell, a millennial of European and Mexican heritage, has one humorous children’s book published, but her more serious writing projects are stalled, her boyfriend has dumped her, and she is deeply frightened by a recurring dream. To solve her problems she delves into family mysteries – Civil War-era slaveholding, madness, and theft of artifacts. The […]
THE MEMOIR OF THE MINOTAUR
A novel Published by MADVILLE PUBLISHING. Prepublication praise: “A romping confessional riff on the classic tale, a portrait of the artist as a young bull. Shachtman’s rollicking prose weaves mythology into a gripping yarn and gives antiquity’s voiceless celebrity monster a soaring human heart.” -Charles Graeber, NYT bestselling author of The Good Nurse and The Breakthrough. “A fine read. Exciting, […]