Gone West

by Ken Janjigian

In each of the four novellas, an artist moves to San Francisco to experience its storied bohemian life. A poet turned cab driver seeks the elusive muse that will save his soul and marriage. A young painter is seduced by an idealistic friend to start an underground journal only to find himself in a risky romantic triangle. An eccentric writer, stricken with hypergraphia, transcribes his daily existence into a living novel, blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction. And a surrealist travel writer is lured into the afterhours world of a local pub and a crime he can't resist. San Francisco isn't what any of them expected, but in the end these artists get closer to the truth about themselves, for better or worse.

346 pages, Paperback

Published October 24, 2020