09/15/13

Christopher Benedict Releases Debut Collection

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The personal chronicle of one man’s struggles with depression and life itself, “Perfectly Rational Lunacy” is a patchwork of confessional essays and prose poetry. This book of “oxymoronic writings” also includes biographical profiles of Mike Tyson, Marlon Brando, sideshow performer Frances O’ Connor, and Orson Welles, as well as musings on such diverse subjects as Abraham Lincoln, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Iggy Pop, and Sylvia Plath.

These topics and others are all filtered and distilled through the author’s experiences and merciless self-examination.

About the Author: Christopher Benedict is a resident of Huntington, New York on Long Island. There, he serves as a proud member of the Phantom Writers Guild, which collectively released their first effort “Amongst Us All” in 2012, and are currently working on a second volume.

A bookworm, film buff, history nerd, and loving uncle, Benedict writes candidly and passionately about his various interests and evolving journey through this life, of weighty matters of the mind and the heart.

Perfectly Rational Lunacy” is his first book, and is available at Amazon.com.

 

08/2/12

Amongst us All

Its exact origins are shrouded in the mists of our memories, but it was born of friendship. In the 1980s a group of young people with a love of telling tales came together. “Amongst Us All: Stories, Essays, Poems and Mad Scribblings from the Posthumous Papers of the Phantom Writers Guild”, the culmination of nearly three decades of those late night tales and friendships, is now available for sale in an exclusive Amazon Kindle edition.

The tales told here are of unorthodox cleaning methods, a fly-witness job interview, tributes to Hubert Selby & Levon Helm, the most challenging poem ever and a novella about a man on the wrong side of a scavenger hunt. With each section punctuated by cartoons courtesy of the Guild’s own “Mad Scribbler”, we think there’s something for everyone.

What are you waiting for? Surf on over to the Kindle Store and check it out now!