Three Writers/One Photographer - by Lagoon House Press & Barbara Crane & Marie Pal-Brown (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Emerging from the pandemic, the founders of Lagoon House Press (writers Barbara Crane, Marie Pal-Brown, Garrett M. Brown), and photographer Bill Davis aspired to put together a collection of some of their favorite fiction, hybrid memoir/fiction, poetry, and photographs. Thus, was born Three Writers/One Photographer - an illuminating collection of fantasies, truths and images celebrating the creative spirit.

Review Quotes

In this superb collection, we marvel at Barbara Crane's intrepid and imaginative narrators; the hushed restraint of Marie Pal-Brown's gorgeously lyrical poems; the wildness of Bill Davis's arresting photos; and question what kind of artist we really want to be in Garrett M. Brown's vulnerable autofictions. This is a wonderful book, thrilling in its courage, complexity, and insights. It is a powerful contribution to the on-going vitality of California writing and art.

--Alison Townsend, author of The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home.

Good-heartedness, love, tenderness, humility, & a devotion to the Creative govern these pages. Barbara Crane writes exquisite sentences in her daring and compelling stories. I especially love "There Had to be a Rothko." Marie-Pal Brown's poems, including the loving, "Your Broad Hands Touching Me," are inspiring, tender & well-observed. Bill Davis's photos of birds, animals, foreign landscapes, have a stateliness & a natural beauty. Garrett M. Brown's "The Tragedy of Modern Man in Three Acts," is a memorable essay, which includes a play about his entrance into writing as a passion. An astonishing book!

--Harry E. Northup, actor and poet, author of Love Poem To MPTF.