"Ken Waldman's Now Entering Alaska Time offers a glimpse of an Alaska you won't find anywhere else. Those who have lived here will recognize these characters and want to experience this world for themselves. Waldman's debut novel lingers in your mind like a good folk song, and leaves you humming. A unique blend of heart-break and tragedy, comedy and drama, Waldman delivers an unforgettable and fun read. The 49th State changes people, and after reading Now Entering Alaska Time you'll understand why time here is unlike any other place on the planet."
---- Don Rearden, author of The Raven's Gift and Without a Paddle
In Now Entering Alaska Time, Ken Waldman skillfully renders slice-of-life details--the dry cabins, hiking trails, bars, and moonlight--as his characters gather in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Nome to tell stories, drink beer, fall in love, and play old-time music. This novel of academia in the arctic captures the beating heart of Alaska.
----Martha Amore, author of In the Quiet Season and Other Stories, and co-editor of Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
Ken Waldman has written a novel that explores extreme sexual liberty as it is opposed to one of the most unforgiving climates in North America. The protagonist is Zan Olsen, and the story picks up when he is twenty-eight years old, a Washingtonian whose wife leaves him in the early eighties, thereby breaking up their marriage. He determines to go to Alaska to nurse his wounds and to find work. Through him we encounter an extraordinary cast of characters. Zan goes through several relationships, culminating with one woman named Melinda, whom we've been following beforehand. The book is notable for its characters' desperation, even brutality in a frequently stark, brutal, and occasionally beautiful world, but finally most notable is Zan and Melinda's search for meaning. The economy of expression employed by Waldman is wonderful. This is an eminently readable and engaging work.
----John Keeble, author of The Shadows of Owls and Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound
Poet, Writer, Teacher
A former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, Ken Waldman has published fifteen full-length poetry collections, a memoir, and a creative writing manual from respected independent small presses.
NEWS: In early 2020, Ken Waldman has had three new books released: Sports Page, a full-length poetry collection from Lamar University Literary Press; The Writing Party, a hybrid book that is part writing manual, part memoir (about Ken as writer, teacher, reader), and part full-length poetry collection (all poems about writers and writing) from Mezcalita Press; and Trump Sonnets, Volume 4, the latest in that ongoing series, from Ridgeway Press.
THE LATEST NEWS: In early 2021, Ken Waldman has had four new books published: three more collections of Trump Sonnets, Volumes 5, 6, 7--a trilogy within the complete series, all in the former president's voice, and are subtitled His Early Virus Monologues, His Middle Virus Soliloquy, His Further Virus Monologues (more about these at trumpsonnets.com); and also Leftovers and Gravy, published by cyberwit.net in India, and includes some of Ken's leftover poems, many published in good journals, as well as a sequence of new love poems, plus poems referencing the pandemic, George Floyd, and more. (There will be a fifth 2021 book, Trump Sonnets,Volume 8, by summer.) |
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