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Obsessions A new novel by Gene McCormick Obsessions of daily life including passion, mystery, and even
a minute or two of off-center romance provide emotional heft to a highly
nuanced, uniquely evocative exploitation of minutes and hours ticking by in a
multi-layered, thought-provoking, genteel insanity.
Obsessions is, on the surface,
accessible to the brink of literal transparency but a walk in a forest preserve,
being parked in a shopping mall in a thunderstorm, going fishing, rubbing on
lotion prove not so routine. As Neil Gaiman has said “Things can mean more than
they literally mean.” Obsessions
is a novel, a short story, a book-length narrative poem. Author
Bio: This is Gene
McCormick’s twenty-first book, a mix of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. He
lives in Wayne, Illinois.
Obsessions
by Gene McCormick ISBN 978-0-9980732-0-0 111 pages.
Soft cover. $16.00
Available through:
Amazon.com
Middle Island Press
PO Box 354 West Union,
WV 26456
Middleislandpress@yahoo.com
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March, 2016 Much of the writing in Big City Nighttime Stories first appeared in Backstreet, Busted Dharma, The Chaffin Journal, Clark Street Review, Cybersoleiljournal, Dead Snakes, Diverse Voices Quarterly, The Homestead Review, The Iconoclast, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Lounge People, Pegasus, The Potomac, The Rockford Review, Saturday Diner,' Ship of Fools, Slant, Slipstream, Thorny Locust, Trajectory, The Unrorean and Zombie Logic Review.
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 Eggshell Sidewalks Gene McCormick February, 2015 Working the mean streets through the big town’s inner-city. .
.Heavy sky all day, the sun stays down, there is no moon. Running the length of
the city block lit only by an occasional streetlight, a chain link wall creates a
meaningless divide
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C’est la Vie
Paris
June, 2014
C'est la Vie is
an illustrated journal in the form of a chapbook reflecting contemporary Paris,
both through its people and sites. |
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La Vie en Rose: PARIS TODAY is Gene McCormick’s fourteenth book.
His writing regularly appears in select literary journals, a number of his
narrative poems have been converted to music, and his art is in commercial and
private collections He lives in Wayne, Illinois. The book can be ordered from the author for $10 including postage at PO Box 51, Wayne, IL 60184 |
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Lives Of Passion is Gene McCormick’s thirteenth book Published in limited edition by P.O. Box 858 Rockford, IL 61105 http://rockfordwritersguiId.com |
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Early reviews have
been favorable. Says Alan Catlin, author of Near Death in the
Afternoon on Becker Street: “Reading Gene McCormick's An Ice Ax
at Dusk is like looking at paintings by Edward Hopper; the ones
featuring shadows and light, empty rooms at different hours of the
day, a sunset viewed over railway tracks and telephone wires, a
well-lighted boardinghouse as seen from outside. Waiting, inside,
are ordinary people, not necessarily living lives of quiet
desperation, as just getting by. This is what good narrative poetry
is all about and Gene McCormick is a modern master of the form.” An Ice Axe At
Dusk |
 Gene McCormick’s poetry collection, Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack’s Bar & Grill has been published by MuscleHead Press, a Division of BoneWorld Publishing, Russell, NY. The 42-page collection contains new and previously published poems. According to Gene, “Livin' The Blues At Cranky Jack's Bar & Grill contains some of my earliest writing, reflecting the realities of life as it is lived on a daily basis but with a bit of an earthy edge.” The chapbook is in three segments, each making observations from a slightly different, maybe skewed, perspective. "Gene McCormick's latest book, a literary virtual tour of a colorful town, chased my blues away. It was a treat to meet its denizens. The book actually read more like a novella than a narrative collection--a novella rich in breadth, depth and the nuance of language." --Rex Sexton, author of X-Ray Eyes Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack’s Bar & Grill can be ordered direct from the author for $10.00, cash or check, postage and handling included. Please specify if you want the book signed or inscribed. Send payment to Gene McCormick, PO Box 51, Wayne, IL 60184.Gene McCormick’s poetry collection, Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack’s Bar & Grill has been published by MuscleHead Press, a Division of BoneWorld Publishing, Russell, NY. The 42-page collection contains new and previously published poems. According to Gene, “Livin' The Blues At Cranky Jack's Bar & Grill contains some of my earliest writing, reflecting the realities of life as it is lived on a daily basis but with a bit of an earthy edge.” The chapbook is in three segments, each making observations from a slightly different, maybe skewed, perspective. "Gene McCormick's latest book, a literary virtual tour of a colorful town, chased my blues away. It was a treat to meet its denizens. The book actually read more like a novella than a narrative collection--a novella rich in breadth, depth and the nuance of language." --Rex Sexton, author of X-Ray Eyes Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack’s Bar & Grill can be ordered direct from the author for $10.00, cash or check, postage and handling included. Please specify if you want the book signed or inscribed. Send payment to Gene McCormick, PO Box 51, Wayne, IL 60184.
"Gene McCormick's latest book, a literary virtual tour of a colorful town, chased my blues away. It was a treat to meet its denizens. The book actually read more like a novella than a narrative collection--a novella rich in breadth, depth and the nuance of language." --Rex Sexton, author of X-Ray Eyes Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack’s Bar & Grill can be ordered direct from the author for $10.00, cash or check, postage and handling included. Please specify if you want the book signed or inscribed. Send payment to Gene McCormick, PO Box 51, Wayne, IL 60184. |
 Gene
McCormick’s narrative poetry collection, Naked Skeletons (ISBN
1-58998-915-5), has just been published by Pudding House Publications,
Columbus, Ohio. The 34-page chapbook contains twenty new, previously
unpublished poems.
According to the author, “The poems in Naked Skeletons are reality-based, heightened story-telling of daily life episodes of which we all have to work through, or are aware of. The poems are meant as stories, clear and accessible. There is no tricky wordplay; the messages are in the content.” Naked Skeletons can be ordered direct from
the author for $10.00, cash or check, postage and handling included. Please
specify if you want the book signed or inscribed. Send payment to Gene
McCormick, PO Box 51, Wayne, IL 60184. To pay by credit card, please order direct from Pudding House Publications, 81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus, OH 43213. jen@puddinghouse.com. Telephone 614-986-1881.There will be a postage and handling fee on books ordered from the publisher. |
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at Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books. Read a review of this book. |
 Rain
on the Sun: Beauty, surrender, murder, obsessions, celebration,
mystery, suicide, cheating, loyalties, fables, rejection,
redemption, hustlers, lovers...and fate
(Paperback) at Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books. Read a review of this book. Read excepts from this book. |
 The Blue Collar Thoroughbred: An Inside Account of the Real
World of Racing (Paperback)
at Amazon Books |
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at Amazon Books
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The U.S. Chess Championship 1845-1985 by Gene H. McCormick and Grandmaster Andy Soltis (McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986). Hardcover.
United States Chess Championship, 1845-1996 by Andy Soltis and Gene H. McCormick (McFarland & Company, 1997). Hardcover.
United States Chess Championship, 1845-1996 by Andy Soltis and Gene H. McCormick (McFarland & Company, 2006). Softcover.
Uncompromising Chess: The Games of Viktor Kupreichik, by Gene McCormick (Chess Enterprises, Inc., 1986). Softcover.
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Big
City Nighttime Stories
Gene
McCormick’s collection of narrative poetry (poems as stories, stories as
poems), An Ice Axe At Dusk, is published by March Street
Press. The 81+ page collection consists of 57 new, or previously uncollected,
vignettes of recognizable people—and sometimes objects—working through their
daily lives.
The Eagle & The Plum: The
True Story of Racing's Toughest Horses (Paperback)
