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Willis Barnstone, born in 1927 in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, the Sorbonne, SOAS, Columbia and Yale, taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), was in Haiti during the deadly rule of Papa Doc (1960), in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1972. and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War (1975-1976), A Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985). Former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University (1973), he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Indiana University. He lives in Oakland, California.

A Guggenheim fellow, he received NEA, NEH, ACLS, W.H. Auden Award of NY Council on the Arts, Midland Authors Award, 4 Book of the Month selections, 4 Pulitzer nominations, 6 Poetry Society of America prizes, including the Emily Dickinson Award, and in 2015 the Fred Cody Life Achievement Award. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Poetry, New Yorker, & the Times Literary Supplement among others.

NAUGHT BUT A SHADOW: A Novel of the Occult by P. Curran

A fragmented group of friends stumble through the aftermath of…what? A shared hallucination? A transpersonal breakdown? Some event they desperately don't want to discuss and no one else can understand. Did it happen? If they imagined the whole thing, why are they all losing their minds?

In movies an otherworldly event always explains itself-the ghost tells where the gold is hid or why the castle's haunted, the curse unveils some sin that birthed it. The story resolves. Pieces fit.

In life when something weird happens, you don't get answers. Instead you face an endless chain of paralyzing questions.

Until you don’t.

P. Curran is a strange storyteller. As one of the pen names of Peter Orr, P. Curran has found their work in the hands of readers via merch table, guitar case, record shop, table at the French Market, & beyond. Originally from New York, Peter has barely scraped by or lived high on the hog in New Orleans since the early 90s. Oh and sure he's been to the university and edited magazines and what have ye. He used to edit magazines, then for twenty-five years played music in New Orleans nightclubs.He is the author of the now recognized cult classic: Stay Out of New Orleans. He lives in New Orleans.