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The Condor's Shadow

Jim's new novel is already receiving some great pre-publication reviews. A few quotes:

"A ferocious current keeps pulling you along" (Robert Roth, author of Health Proxy and Book of Pieces)

"a haunting story [with] powerful observations of nature and love" (D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review).

Available on Amazon and elsewhere!

Problems of Translation

A Shelf Unbound Notable Book available in paperback and as an ebook, Jim's recently published novel has been generating a lot of buzz:

"An insanely amusing adventure that has a deep love of language at its belly-shaking core."
       — Gary Shteyngart, author of
        Little Failure and
        A Super Sad True Love Story

"Exceptional, original, deftly crafted from beginning to end, ... an inherently fascinating, unique, funny, and compelling read ...very highly recommended..."
         — Midwest Book Review

"...a merry, yearlong chase around the globe....A sure-handed narrative led by a hapless but resilient adventurer."
            — Kirkus Reviews




4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon:
See the great reader reviews!

"...practically every paragraph twinkles with humor...erudite from start to finish...pretty much perfectly done."
            — Ron Story (no relation!), Emeritus Professor at
                 the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author
                 of Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love

"In this comic masterpiece, an adventure, a mystery story of intrigue, betrayal and total absurdity, we take a wild ride with Charles Abel Baker (Charlie) through the underside of the literary world into the underside of multiple other worlds as he stumbles and careens into all kinds of trouble in an obsessive pursuit of his Dream. . . . And then there are those wonderful, occasional sex scenes -- hot as they are ridiculous-- that for me at least are a total turn on."
            — Robert Roth, author of Health Proxy and
                 co-creator of the litmag And Then

"Jim Story's name says it all: he was meant to be a writer. I've never met an author more dedicated to his craft. I hope everyone reads this book!"
            — Hannah Tinti, author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley,
              The Good Thief and Animal Crackers;
              co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story

"A fascinating look at the issues of translation, publishing, and an unglamorous middle-age."
            — Edith Grossman, award-winning translator of Cervantes,
                    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa

"This aptly named author serves up not just one story, but a series of adventures as entertaining as they are unlikely. Jim Story is a skillful writer with an engaging style, a turbulent imagination, a seemingly inexhaustible fund of cultural and literary lore, and a passion--indeed, as he calls it, a 'reverence'--for language."
            — Hilary Orbach, Transgressions and Other Stories