Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. "Pelton's modern cover of this great 1853 American novella makes the mind toggle from Pelton to Melville and back. In the middle of this read a moving personal digression honors the universality of the iconic Melville story. Ah humanity! You speculate about Bartleby the Waitress, Bartleby the Bus Driver, Bartleby the ticket seller, and you burrow into the lonely faceless steeps of American night. This is a wonderful homage, humane and readable, an engrossing take on an oracular Melville work"--Steve Katz.
About the Author
Ted Pelton is the author of the novel MALCOLM and JACK (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006), a collection of short fiction, ENDORSED BY JACK CHAPEAU 2 AN EVEN GREATER EXTENT (Starcherone Press, 2006) and two novellas, Bhang (BlazeVOX Books, 2006) and BARTLEBY, THE SPORTSCASTER (Subito Press, 2010). A 1994 winner of an NEA fellowship, he is currently a full professor at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. He founded and runs Starcherone Press.