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August 25, 2013

Giant Steps Press is pleased to announce the publication of New York at Twilight: Selected Tales of Gothams Weird & Eerie by Kirpal Gordon, available for perusal and purchase at www.Amazon.com for $14.95, ISBN 978-1-48414944-7 in paperback and $7.99 in Kindle. New York at Twilight: Selected Tales of Gothams Weird & Eerie is a collection of intersecting short stories that take place during the twilight hour in ethnic neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. Part comedy of human foible, part tribute to the city and its citizens, part tour guide to its haunts and history, New York at Twilight celebrates the Big Apple at its weirdest and eeriest throughout the decades from the 1960s to the present. Among its Twilight Zone-like plots: a commuter ends up buried under the floorboards in the house of the archer of death; after choosing X as her Confirmation name, a young Irish Catholic undergoes a life-changing experience at the Flushing RKO movie palace; a fictional New York character returns in the flesh to his Upper West Side neighborhood; a downtown diva phones the Empire State Building with a confession of love; while mopping the floor in a prison on Staten Island, a Puerto Rican hears the moon call his name; a journalist becomes her own story when she falls for a magus of twilights blue hour; a new couple face a cosmic reckoning while hiking their Financial District neighborhood under the influence of magic mushrooms; a Greek philosophy student from

Astoria discovers in Greenwich Village why there is evil in the world; a lightskinned West Indian with a double identity undergoes a trial by fire in his Chinatown loft; and a woman in the Bronx in 2022 coaxes her husband into a becoming a walrus thanks to the music of the Beatles. Jim Cohn, Director of the Museum of American Poetics, called the collection, As marvelous a tearing apart [of] the boxed-in world as it gets. These 13 taleswith a nod to Salingers depictions of youth alienation and innocence, but also echoing traditions out of Kerouac, Burroughs, Pound, Whitman, and Poeare each tied together by strangely healing moments of sacred awareness as his parade of erotic, confused, and consciousness-seeking characters search for the luminous promise of their being. Carrie Schneider, author of American Yoga, wrote, Kirpal Gordon maps a Vedic history of New York that forever changes the topography---not to mention your view of the Empire State Building in this groundbreaking collection. John Kruth, author of Rhapsody in Black: A Biography of Roy Orbison, wrote, Each tale could have morphed into a novel or a major feature f ilm. Gordon skillfully crafts scrumptious muffalettas of luminosity and economy that one cant help but crave more. His literary riffs, mesmerizing metaphors and uncanny plot twists remind me of the solos of heavyweight jazzmen like Coltrane or Rollins, blowing well-ruminated ideas that seem to flow spontaneously in the moment of creation from the primeval fun house of his mind.

Born and raised and living in New York City, Kirpal Gordon is the author of Round Earth, Open Sky, a novel; Ghost & Ganga: A Jazz Odyssey, three interweaving novellas; Eros in Sanskrit: Lyrics & Meditations, 2007-1977, and its companion spoken word-jazz CD with the Claire Daly Band, Speak-SpakeSpoke. For more on his literary and musical projects, visit KirpalG.com; for his interviews with artists and activists, visit giantstepspress.blogspot.com/.

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