REACTIONS FROM OTHERS
Bill Cushing's characters are people who can see through false fronts and lies. They might be kids in school who understand the limitations of their teachers and education or grunt soldiers in the Trojan War who understand the frailties and inconsistencies of not only their leaders but even their gods. More importantly, Bill can see through the bullshit. He can see through the false conventions of education, employment, religion, and society, and his latest book, The Commies Come to Waterton, helps us to see through it too. It's important to be reminded that there are multiple ways to understand the world, and Cushing's gift to us is that he gives us another clear vision of the way the world is.
--John Brantingham, author of Life: Orange to Pear
Bill Cushing’s The Commies Come to Waterton features stories of gritty realism, exploring what it means to be a boy and a man in twentieth-century America. With gentle irony and deft touches of humor, Cushing sketches the embarrassments of boyhood and the realities of working-class life, political conflict, bureaucratic mismanagement, traumatic war memories, and the shadow of nuclear apocalypse. In a couple of fantasy tales, Cushing wryly portrays the danger of getting what you wish for and the implications of a Talking Heads song. This book is essential if you want to understand men’s struggle to find themselves in a changing world.
-- Ethan Goffman, author of Realities and Alternatives, Dreamscapes, and other books
Bill Cushing lived in several states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California where he now lives in Glendale with his wife and their son. He earned an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont and recently retired after teaching college English for over 20 years. As an undergrad, he was referred to as the “blue collar writer” by classmates because of his years serving in the Navy and then working as a marine electrician on ships before returning to college at the age of 37.
Along with writing and facilitating a writing group, he has four books of poetry including . . .this just in. . ., released by Cyberwit in 2021.
A Former Life, was released by Finishing Line Press and honored with a 2020 Kops-Fetherling International Book Award. In 2019, he won San Gabriel Valley Chapbook Competition with Music Speaks, a volume awarded with a 2021 New York City Book Awards. Published in journals and anthologies in print and online, he is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and was named among the Top Ten L. A. Poets in 2017 as well as one of 2018’s “ten poets to watch” by Spectrum Publishing of Los Angeles.
The Commies Come to Waterton represents Bill’s first collection of narrative prose. |
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