Book of the Year
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So, I’m in Brazzaville, right? And I’m in this canoe, and this local is paddling me up the river between Congo and Zaire, when all of a sudden this hippo surfaces right next to the canoe, and, well I’m thinking I’m gonna die, right, and the hippo opens his mouth, and I stand up and I open my cell phone to call home to tell Mom I love her, and I look down at the screen I notice the phone’s connected to the net and it’s opened to this webpage, and I start reading and I forget about the hippo, and everything is fine, and I’m floating up the river past the hippo and I’m feeling great and the reading is interesting, and on Don Merritt’s website I find a link to read a preview of his novel, Blossom, and I’m reading the book and I’m still floating up the river and I’m still standing up in the canoe and I Discover Blossom is a book that makes me feel that literature is still alive, that the novel is not dead, so I order a copy of the book on-line and as soon as I press the “buy” button, the local paddling the canoe turns the canoe toward rams the canoe into the muddy bank and I leap off into the mud and trudge my way up this trail and find my friend, who works with orphaned gorillas, waiting for me at the edge of the jungle and we go off to save some orphans. Oh, here is Mr. Merritt’s webpage: Random Literary Blogging.
Donigan Merritt was born in southwest Arkansas in 1945. He has worked as a journalist, scuba diver, fishing boat captain, and university professor. He has a BA and MA degree in philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is currently living in Buenos Aires; with his diplomat wife who has lived in Central Europe, South Africa, and Germany.
picture of author, Donigan Merritt
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So, I’m in Brazzaville, right? And I’m in this canoe, and this local is paddling me up the river between Congo and Zaire, when all of a sudden this hippo surfaces right next to the canoe, and, well I’m thinking I’m gonna die, right, and the hippo opens his mouth, and I stand up and I open my cell phone to call home to tell Mom I love her, and I look down at the screen I notice the phone’s connected to the net and it’s opened to this webpage, and I start reading and I forget about the hippo, and everything is fine, and I’m floating up the river past the hippo and I’m feeling great and the reading is interesting, and on Don Merritt’s website I find a link to read a preview of his novel, Blossom, and I’m reading the book and I’m still floating up the river and I’m still standing up in the canoe and I Discover Blossom is a book that makes me feel that literature is still alive, that the novel is not dead, so I order a copy of the book on-line and as soon as I press the “buy” button, the local paddling the canoe turns the canoe toward rams the canoe into the muddy bank and I leap off into the mud and trudge my way up this trail and find my friend, who works with orphaned gorillas, waiting for me at the edge of the jungle and we go off to save some orphans. Oh, here is Mr. Merritt’s webpage: Random Literary Blogging.
Donigan Merritt was born in southwest Arkansas in 1945. He has worked as a journalist, scuba diver, fishing boat captain, and university professor. He has a BA and MA degree in philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is currently living in Buenos Aires; with his diplomat wife who has lived in Central Europe, South Africa, and Germany.
picture of author, Donigan Merritt
Donigan is a talented writer. Well deserving of the recognition.
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