Orange: The Diary of an Urban Surrealist

by Stephen Janis

Overview

Drinking with his dead father, buying narcotics from an amateur chemist, trying to keep track of time, space and where he is . Orange is a distillation of futility and dreaming, over sleeping and lack of remorse, the story of a character living in his past, present through a simultaneous hallucinogenic binge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439224021
Publisher:	BookSurge, LLC
Publication date:	02/04/2009
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Stephen Janis is an award-winning investigative reporter and the founder of Investigative Voice, an online investigative journalism web site.

As a staff writer for the Baltimore Examiner (and one of only a handful who worked at the paper for its entire existence) he won a Maryland- Delaware-DC Press Association award in 2008 for investigative reporting on the high rate of unsolved murders in Baltimore. In 2009 he won a MDDC Press Association award for best series for his articles on the murders of prostitutes.

He is the author of three books.

This Dream Called Death, a novel which explores the cultural after shocks of mass incarceration by positing a world where people are imprisoned for the content of their dreams, and Orange, the Diary of an Urban Surrealist, which follows the descent of drug dealer pushing a substance that gives white people soul

He also co-wrote "Why Do We Kill?" with Baltimore City Homicide detective Kelvin Sewell