Hardcover edition published in 1986 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York. Paper edition published in 1987 by Harper-Collins. Reissued by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, in 2007.
from reviews:
"In this wild, hilarious novel . . . the author is consistently entertaining . . . a richly imaginative comic tale."
Booklist
"Rosenthal combines the absurdist middle-American humor of southern novelist James Wilcox with the odd Slavic-American fantasy of Chicago novelist Stuart Dybek . . . His novel is quirkily funny, lyrical and, in the unexpected concluding note, shockingly sad."
Publishers Weekly
"Combining gritty working-class realism with exuberant fantasy . . ."
Library Journal
Those who will learn from history are doomed to make new mistakes. Neda Loop
Hardcover edition published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York in 1987. Paper eidtion published by Harper & Row, Perrennial Fiction Library, New York, 1987. Reissued by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, 2007.
Hardcover edition published by Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, in 1992. Paper edition published by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, 2007.
from reviews of the Loop Trilogy:
"Rosenthal clearly has a gift for outrageously comic hyperbole."
"Chuck Rosenthal takes aim and always hits."
New York Times Book Review
"In this book, Chuck Rosenthal, one of the great American baroque voices, moves his focus to tell a seductive, wistful, loving, and compelling tale, which will earn him more readers than ever. To read him once is to become an enthusiast."
Thomas Keneally
"Chuck Rosenthal writes about girls and horses so truly he must have been one or the other in his last life. This is a courageous book; lyrical like the stars, honest like the stallion; and about everything in the world that matters most."
Pam Houston
"A passionate, shimmering fable of man and nature, good and evil, life, death, and achingly transcendent love."
Carolyn See
Hardback edition published in 1995 by St. Martin's Press, New York. Paper edition published by St. Martin's in 1996. Translations published in Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden (under the name David C. P. Rosenthal), and South Korea
" Rosenthal's work is achingly and brutally beautiful."
Buzz
"He is astonishing . . . his plots weave themselves from the fears of his characters, rising like smoke from the fire of old bones and unfinished stories."
Los Angeles Times
"Best book by a dead man in years." - William Burroughs
"Up to its ears in eloquent Void." - Allen Ginsberg
"Befuddlfying!" - Neal Cassady
"Wot a crock!" - Gregory Corso
"Is it true? Did this really happen? I almost believe it did or could have. Coudn't have but it could have." - Norman Grochowski
Published in hard cover by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, in 2001. Drawing of Rosenthal and Kerouac by Thomas Micchelli.
In the year 2015 a series of catastrophiic meteorological events have crippled the technological infrastructure of the world and humankind is on the verge of total annihilation. One man knows the secret and only one young woman can save the planet . . .
"Chuck Rosenthal is a magician-genius who has conjured a new genre. Part sci-fi, part fantasy, part evil fairy tale, part pure action packed adventure yarn in which dragons eat poets like popcorn, this is a beautifully written, brilliant, deeply philosophical novel."
Chuck Kinder, author of The Honeymooners
"There is a long and noble tradition, from Spenser's Faerie Queen through Delillo's White Noise and now to Rosenthal's My Mistress, Humanity, of great allegorical inventions depicting the struggle between good and evil . . . He has written a novel that is imaginative, rich, poetic, and profound."
William Gass, author of The Tunnel
" An outrageous love song, partly on-the-road, partly a visionary treatise on the shape of the soul. A fantastic journey to retrieve the tatters of shimmering humanity when the world appears to be nearly shattered."
Joy Harjo, author of A Map to the Next World
Published in paper edition by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, in 2002.
"Envision Philip K. Dick's
boundless imagination coupled with
Chandler's control of tongue-in-cheek
language and bound by Conrad's unquenchable desire to catch a glimpse of the unnamable, and
you've found yourself directly in
The Heart of Mars."
-Aaron Petrovich,
Hotel St. George
"There has never been a good reason to be anywhere, let alone here. Yet here I am. And there you are. I am learning to write. And you, by now, must be learning to read."
-marl
"Rosenthal's quirky but poetic prose brims with illusions to classical literature . . . while envisioning one possible, albeit whimsically inventive, path humanity might take . . ."
American Library Association
" A must have for the serious science fiction reader looking for something more creative, visionary, intellectual than the mainstream efforts currently on the market."
The PODler
Hard cover edition published by Hollyridge Press, Venice CA, in 2007. Paper edition published by Hollyridge Press in 2008. Kiindle ebook edition published in 2008.
In 1964, Chuck Rosenthal was a thirteen year old boy whose greatest dream was to make his grade school basketball team. Never Let Me Go tells the true story of how a college professor, who coached grade school basketball as his hobby, became the man who held that dream in his hands; became Rosenthal's coach and eventually his mentor; how he made Rosenthal his boy, his confidant, and eventually his lover, and how that teenager, trapped in a cycle of loyalty, betrayal, denial, secrecy, and sexual abuse, found the inner resources to escape and take the first steps toward adulthood.
from the 1 in 6 website:
" This gripping memoir recounts life as the 'favorite boy' of a sexually abusive coach. The story is both uncommon (bizarre sex acts, twisted 'mentoring' of his basketball playing and intellectual development) yet all too common. Any man who's attempted to deal with such betrayal and mind games by a sexually exploitive coach will find understanding, and healing, in this remarkable book.
Published in paper by Red Hen Press, Granada Hills CA, in 2004. A screenplay based on the book, How the Game is Played, by Paul Lieber, is under consideration for pruduction. VISIT 1in6.org for more information about sexual molestation and abuse of boys.
"Are We Not There Yet?, Rosenthal's roguish and frank travelogue, what with its thorny detail, skepticism and chutzpah, complex philosophical, political and spiritual conundrums; acid humor, mystical chaos, and cosmic surrealism . . . a wry and transporting tale of both earthly and metaphysical journeys."
-Bookllist
[Not . . .] another spiritual quest story set in the Himalayas. But as you find out in India over time, you don't have to go looking for God. God finds you.
-from the text
Published in paper edition by What Books Press (www.whatboospress.org), an imprint of the Glass Table Collective, in Los Angeles, 2009. Published as an e-book by Small Press Distributors in 2011. The art of Chicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist GRONK is depicted on the covers of all books in the What Books series.
"Chuck Rosenthal treats the English language like it's his own personal ball of Silly Putty, stretching and warping it in ways you can't imagine, and leaving you gasping for air from laughing so much. I've been known to snort tequila out of my nose just remembering some Rosenthal passage I read the day before. WARNING: This book can be harmful to your sinuses."
- Daren Wang, Executive Director, AJC-Decatur Book Festival
"In prose that swings between war-whoop and lullaby, Coyote O'Donohugh's History of Texas is Chuck Rosenthal's mad waking dream of the wild, tragic, hilarious concoction that used to be called the 'American character.'"
-Michael Ventura
Coyote might get Rosenthal arrested for understanding wild women, for finding intimacy where there's trouble, and for gambling with God when His guard is down."
-Jazmin Aminian Jordan
Published in paper edition by What Books Press, Los Angeles, in 2010. Cover art by Gronk and Chuck Rosenthal is the winner of the second place prize awarded by the International Latino Book Awards, 2011.
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contact: shark.rosenthal_gmail.com
photos by Gail Wronsky, Marlena Dali, and Marta Peluso
Published in paper by What Books Press, Los Angeles, in 2010. Cover art by Gronk and Rosenthal was second place prize winner in the International Latlino Book Awards 2011.
