Rick and Jack in Croatia

by Rick Harsch

A short autobiographical vomitory (as one reader put it), Rick & Jack in Croatia is an unfiltered reaction to a very emotive photograph Harsch received this past Christmas. The result is a surreal horserace towards sense that diminishes with extreme prejudice beginning at the starting gate, fetlocks trampling the very private and the ugliest of publics. If an author is prepared to talk about playing with his genitals, his desire to converse with historical figures such as Osama bin Laden and Yahyah Sinwar are owed a listen.

"Rick Harsch continues to map the personal and the global in oneiric terror. Rick and Jack in Croatia is a bitter cordial of being opposing a concentrate of nothingness. Harsch's international concerns should be our own."
John Dickson

Paperback

Published March 13, 2025

About the author

Publisher, chief editor of corona\samizdat press; Izola, Slovenia....www.corona\samizdat press; rick.harsch@gmail.com
The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas, a novel;
and
Walk Like a Duck, a Season of Little League Baseball in Italy
As of April 24, 2020, these two books are available in a world edition from corona/samizdat, as explained in the following youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JUl...

I have finished a two volume anthological novel, The Assassination of Olof Palme, a an anthological novel, which involves the contributions of at least 50 writers from about 20 countries, and extracts the fungus of the Reagan years, montagerates the murderous manners of secretive Nato/CIA folk in Post WWII Europe, particularly in Italy and France, pays some attention to the Assassination of Olof Palme, while exploring a sort of alternative notion of the autobiographical novel and putting an end to proofreading.




Skulls of Istria, published by River Boat Books, June 26, 2018
Not available on Amazon, only direct from:
http://www.riverboatbooks.com/our-books

Voices After Evelyn was published by Maintenance Ends Press, the Avant Garde wing of Ice Cube Press, in November of 2018
This novel is available at 19.95, from http://www.icecubepress.com/


Author of three novels published by Steerforth press:

The Driftless Zone
Billy Verite
The Sleep of Aborigines
[The Driftless Trilogy]

These three were published in translation in France, two were subsequently chosen for mass market publication and I received a copy of each before the press went bankrupt.



Author of a chapter in Creative Nonfiction's Anatomy of Baseball, prefaced by Yogi Berra.

Living now in Slovenia, where Amalietti&Amalietti of Ljubljana has published:
Several of my own novels have now been published by corona\samizdat, along with works by
Chandler Brossard
David Vardeman
Vesna Radić
Jeff Bursey
Bori Praper,
and coming soon
WD Clarke
Joao Reis
Mark Douglas
Phillip Freedenberg (with Jeff Walton)
Jomme Keller
Giuliano Vivaldi (with a co-translator)
Roberto Alt
Prasenjit Gupta
Zachary Tanner

and more

Arjun and the Good Snake (memoir)
and, in Slovene:
Arjun in dobra kača
and the novels:
Kramberger z opico (Kramberger with Monkey)
Adriatica Deserta
Istrske Lobanje (The Skulls of Istria)

2019:the novel Voices after Evelyn by a new imprint of Ice Cube Press (Iowa)
here is a review by Chris Via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NISsr...

Reviews

[Alex Kudera · Rating 4 out of 5]

This 62-page memoir reads a little bit like a Thomas Bernhard novella as well as a few published short pieces I've written. There is a relationship, I believe, between some of the emotional political extremes touched upon and the various happenings in the author's life, but I found myself much more interested in the author's life than the politics. There are trips to India and Japan; a move to Slovenia; time at the Iowa Writers Workship; life driving a cab, the weirdos he drove around town, and what he had to do to collect his fares; numerous experiences with women; digestive problems; and relationships with parents, siblings, and at least one uncle. If Harsch has more books in him, and he may, it seems like he could plot traditional memoirs and write more than one book focused on sections of his life.