VAHAN GREGORY is the author of the novels “Oh Boy, Here Comes Walt!,” “Chords of Rain,” “Where the Sun Don’t Shine,” and “See Walt Run.” Also, a book of poetry, “The Furious Race,” and the plays “An I for an I” and “One Teaspoon Salt,” (a stage adaptation of William Saroyan’s book “My Name is Aram”). He also authored “The Perils of Deity” and “Non-Exclusive Sexuality and the New Marriage.” His most recent offering is a stirring historical novel "Sing the Long Sorrow," which tells the story of the Armenian Genocide. Gregory is also a prize-winning sculptor in both wood and bronze.
|
 |
Download: $3.99 Hardcover Print: $26.95 Lost in the midst of the violence of the First World War was a holocaust that differed from that of Hitler's only in its scale. The Turkish government let loose upon its own Armenian citizens its horde of savage killers, recruited from its prisons, to execute one of history's most barbaric slaughters upon a peaceful and progressive people. They perpetrated the massacre of a million and a half of its three million Armenian population. During Hitler's planning of the extermination of the Jews, he is quoted by history as saying, "After all, who speaks nowadays of the massacre of the Armenians?" Vahan Gregory's SING THE LONG SORROW penetrates the events of this historic nightmare, and tells a moving tale of perpetrator and victim.
|
 |
Print: $15.90 Robert Kirsh, Los Angeles Times-- Nostalgia is a response to a time of despair but its haze can make iron pyrites seem like gold. Vahan Gregory's "Oh Boy, Here Comes Walt!" avoids such distortion. Gregory's episodic account of a young boy's rites of passage in the late '30s, in the small town of Pompton Lakes, N.J., is an extraordinary evocation of the loss of innocence. This is a favored theme in America but few writers have handled it so well. Gregory's narration retains the bittersweet flavor of youth, poignant without sentimentality, sensitive without sensationalism, touched with a sense of immediacy and an unsparing awareness of life and death, love and cruelty. There is the heft and feel of a classic in its pages.
|
 |
Print: $12.60 Download: $2.00 A young artist/poet/sculptor is madly in love with two remarkable women--and his wife--in a provocative simultaneity, while trying to succeed at introducing the first espresso house in Hollywood in the early '60s.
|
 |
Print: $10.80 Download: $2.00 Walt is a young poet in college in Los Angeles. He has just settled into his first apartment near L.A. City College, and his girlfriend Annabella, a sweet and brilliant artist, seems to be moving in. But Walt has just met Lila. She wears a veil of suns, a delicate galaxy all in a whirl about the lilac savannas of her eyes. Her casual glance is a firing squad. Her walk startles sparks like a wand. His heart is an electrocution of longing. He needs her like a posse. But how can he break Annabella's heart?
|
 |
Print: $12.60 THE PERILS OF DEITY is a witty deflowering of the archaic Gods concept.
|
 |
Print: $9.96 Download: $1.25 A modernization of sexual mores for the 21st Century in preparation for the nanotech revolution and the super-sexual androids. Plus the essay "Synesthetics: the Dazzled Metaphor," the richest insight into metaphor since Aristotle; plus "THE PERILS OF DEITY, a witty deflowering of the God concept; plus "The Psychosis of Rad Islam." plus "23 Great Flicks, and Three Bummers."
|
 |
Print: $9.97 Download: $1.25 Fifty years of poetry by Vahan Gregory, featuring the metaphoric technology of "Synesthetics," the new poetic language of the 21st Century.
|
 |
Print: $10.62 Download: $5.00 A stage dramatization by Vahan Gregory of six short stories by William Saroyan. This dramatization is available free to any person or company that wishes to produce it. It will be one of your greatest experiences in theatre, for producer, actor, and every audience member.
|
 |
Print: $8.58 "A chillingly classic depiction of the infinite variety of human relationships." --Los Angeles Times-- "An evening of love plays, poetic, realistic, abstract, a must for discernng eyes, the epitome of simplicity in construction yet extracting more empathy through magnificence of script than anything seen here in ages. --Ledger-Gazette--
|
|
|
