audio version of "A Note to Hansel" at BoundOff.com

A selection from "Nothing But Trouble" is available at www.Boundoff.com

Bound Off Short Story Podcast: Issue 104
Released September 15, 2014

A Note to Hansel, Thirty Years Too Late
Written by Bob Thurber and read by Kelly Shriver.
8 minutes and 30 seconds. Starts at 9:25.



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"The Trouble with Thurber"

  Christine Cote writes:

His stories are rough and tough, sometimes disturbing. Still, they’re hard to put aside. Something about his straightforward, succinct, and, dare I say, sincere writing style keeps you tethered to his work. I think it’s because his writing is true—not in the sense of being autobiographical—but in the sense that they germinate and grow from that place in him that remembers his difficult beginnings. His background is the breeding ground for his stories. So they are true, coming forth from his experiences, his difficulties, and, as he says, his ability to endure.

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Reviews / Articles

Shanti Arts Blog: The Trouble With Thurber (May 4, 2014)

RUCKERPEDIA: Nothing But Trouble (April 30, 2014)

North Attleboro Author Has More Stories to Tell (April 9, 2014)

Book Release Announcement (March 31, 2014)

About The Title

 

The title of the book comes from a remark my mother often made: “Unless you’re rich, life is nothing but trouble, so you damn well better get used to it.”

There are 34 stories and 43 photographic images.

The  stories are grouped under 7 sections:

  Fathers and Fools

  Women and Children

  Marriage and Divorce

  Love and Death

  The Wicked and The Virtuous

  Art and Artifice

  So Forth and So On

For the most part, these are small, fierce stories full of small cruelties,  sharp-tongued offhand remarks, and those careless, thoughtless actions that too often spin lives into new and sometimes odd directions; those moments when the joys and wonder in our lives,  all our blessings become overshadowed by a sense of sorrow, grief, confusion and a prickly feeling of regret; those moments when we ask ourselves: how did I end up in this mess, this situation, this condition, this moment, this peculiar state of being. But at that point, it’s too late. Trouble has found us.

Available at local bookstores and online booksellers. 

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Nothing But Trouble

Stories by Bob Thurber • Images by Vincent Louis Carrella
Shanti Arts Publishing  • ISBN: 978-0-9885897-6-6 • Price $22.95 

 For more information visit the publisher's website 

Now in bookstores

Nothing But Trouble

Stories by Bob Thurber • Images by Vincent Louis Carrella
Shanti Arts Publishing • On Sale April 10, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9885897-6-6 • Price $22.95




 Now available at your favorite local or online bookseller 

 
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To reserve a signed copy, contact me by email:  info@bobthurber.net
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Publisher's Press Release

Here is a link to the publisher's press release  for Nothing But Trouble.


More info and links to come.

Nothing But Trouble
Stories by Bob Thurber • Images by Vincent Louis Carrella
Shanti Arts Publishing  • ISBN: 978-0-9885897-6-6 • Price $22.95

Trouble is Coming in April 2014

Pre-release Sale

Bob Thurber’s short, sharp, quietly ferocious tales are indeed filled with trouble—yet they are also filled with a strange magic. For all that they are unflinching, often shocking in their emotional violence, they seem to whisper, here is more life.  And under a line like “time heals nothing,” there is a soul that refuses to quit.
— Dawn Raffel, author of The Secret Life of Objects

34 stories & 43 photographs

Visiting Thurberland is like entering a dusty basement junk shop in which every object looms out of the dark with frightening immediacy, and the morose faces of the dolls testify to a disquieting past — or stopping by a sinister garage sale where the "everything's a dollar in this box" crate turns out to hold your once-loved but now eviscerated childhood playthings. Bob Thurber's second collection of dark and brilliant fictions in the man's signature minimalistic-fabulist style exposes the guts of literature to daylight, and it ain't pretty. In fact, adorned by Vincent Carrella's haunting photographs, you might even say this whole book is "nothing but trouble.”  — Andrew Wilson

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Nothing But Trouble

Stories by Bob Thurber

With Photography by Vincent Louis Carella

Shanti Arts Publishing

ISBN 978-0-9885897-6-6  •  $ 22.95 USD 
Pre-release sale: $18.35 (20% discount)

More Info Here