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Burn It Down: American Mayhem Vol. 1
In 1967, the Summer of Love, 17-year old 'Buckles' Sinclair runs from her privileged home in Scarsdale to hitchhike to San Francisco, but instead of Flower Power, Peace, and Love she finds herself plunged into the darkest heart of the American nightmare. Her abandoned mother, KJ, rebuilds her identity and life in the company of a “family” of homosexual men—she is Wendy to The Lost Boys of Manhattan.
335 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2023
About the author
Perry Glasser
16 books32 followersPerry Glasser is the author of five books of prose.
• RIVERTON NOIR, recipient of the Gival Press Novel Award in 2011;
• METAMEMOIRS, a collection of creative nonfiction, is scheduled for publication in early 2013 by Outpost 19;
• DANGEROUS PLACES, a short fiction collection that received the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City;
• SINGING ON THE TITANIC (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1987) a book recorded by the Library of Congress for the blind to be reissued as an e-book by Dzanc Press in 2013;
• SUSPICIOUS ORIGINS (St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1984).
Recent Honors include:
• Fellow: The Massachusetts Cultural Council for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir (2012)
• Fellow: The Norman Mailer House (2011)
• Fellow: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2008, 2011).
He earned his MFA in Fiction at the University of Arizona, and teaches professional writing at Salem State University. He makes his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
• RIVERTON NOIR, recipient of the Gival Press Novel Award in 2011;
• METAMEMOIRS, a collection of creative nonfiction, is scheduled for publication in early 2013 by Outpost 19;
• DANGEROUS PLACES, a short fiction collection that received the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City;
• SINGING ON THE TITANIC (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1987) a book recorded by the Library of Congress for the blind to be reissued as an e-book by Dzanc Press in 2013;
• SUSPICIOUS ORIGINS (St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1984).
Recent Honors include:
• Fellow: The Massachusetts Cultural Council for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir (2012)
• Fellow: The Norman Mailer House (2011)
• Fellow: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2008, 2011).
He earned his MFA in Fiction at the University of Arizona, and teaches professional writing at Salem State University. He makes his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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