You can read much of this material online, and download what you find of particular interest. Both the experiences and the research have convinced me that all life is interconnected and interdependent which you’ll see reflected in the site’s several sections: my books, and research papers on Remote Viewing and Archaeology, Anthropology, Medicine and Healing, Creativity, and Social Policy magazine articles and interviews biographical material and, experiential CDs, videos, and DVDs. I’ve done this both as an experimentalist in parapsychology, and by being privileged to have been a part of several major social transformations: civil rights in the 1960s, the transformation of the military from an elitist conscription organization to an all-voluntary meritocracy in the 70s, and citizen diplomacy between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 80s and 90s. Regal House Publishing is delighted t o bring you Steven Schwartz’s The Tenderest of Strings in the spring of 2022.My life has been spent exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change. I’m Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University, where I serve as fiction editor for Colorado Review. Henry Prize Story Awards, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. My fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, two O. I’ve published two other novels, A Good Doctor’s Son and Therapy, and four collections of stories, including, most recently, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories. I know of no other pursuit that has stretched me, never allowed me to cut corners, and that has at times been breath itself. If I had to pick my proudest accomplishment, it’s that I’m still writing. I needed the experience of my own family, children, a career, and the accompanying failures and successes to put these very elements at risk for a fictional family. I don’t think it’s a novel I could have written as a younger man. My newest novel, The Tenderest of Strings, comes out of this lifelong ambivalence to find where you belong and to whom you belong. I’m not sure, as Faulkner noted, that the past ever leaves us, nor would we want it to, especially as writers who depend on its firepower for our stories. After graduating, I took various jobs in Santa Fe and Oregon, went to graduate school in Arizona, did a brief stint teaching in New Orleans, and finally found my way back Colorado, where I’ve lived for the last 35 years.įor all my love of the adopted West, a part of me never adjusted completely to the greater open spaces out here, as well as those between people, and I missed the familiar if gruff intimacy of East Coasters. Two months later, I enrolled at the University of Colorado and my life changed. Back in Chester, twenty-one years old and living with my parents, I happened to see a photo in Life magazine of the Rocky Mountains. Depressed, disliking my classes, and having met no friends, I dropped out. After going to college in Ohio for two years-freezing in the cold Ohio wind-I tried coming back East and enrolled at George Washington University. I grew up outside Chester, Pennsylvania, an industrial town on the Delaware River. The Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.The Kraken Book Prize for Middle-Grade Fiction Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer.In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003).The Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction.The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas.Sour Mash: RHP’s Southern Literature Series.
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