{"title":"Djelloul Marbrook","description":"Djelloul Marbrook's first poetry book, 'Far from Algiers' (Kent State University Press, 2008) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry. His second book of poems is 'Brushstrokes and Glances' (Deerbrook Editions, 2010). Recent poems were published by American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Oberon, Northport Journal, Meadowland Review, The Same, Reed, The Ledge, Poemeleon, Poets Against War, Fledgling Rag, Daylight Burglary, Orbis, Le Zaporogue, Atticus, Long Island Quarterly, ReDactions, Istanbul Literary Review, Arabesques Literary and Cultural Review, Damazine, Perpetuum Mobile, Attic, and Chronogram. 'Artists' Hill, ' an excerpt from his unpublished novel, Crowds of One, won the 2008 Literal Latté first prize in fiction. 'Artemisia's Wolf, ' a novel, was published by Prakash Books in early 2011. His novel, 'Alice Miller's Room, ' was published in 1999 as an e-book by OnlineOriginals.com (UK), the pioneering British e-book publisher and the only one to have a Booker Prize nominee and numerous mainstream press reviews. Bliss Plot Press of Woodstock, NY, recently published his novel, 'Saraceno, ' as an e-book and an audiobook. His novel 'Guest Boy, ' Book 1 of the trilogy 'Light Piercing Water' is forthcoming in 2012 from Mira Publishing House. His short fiction has been published in Orbis (UK), Potomac Review (Maryland) and Prima Materia (New York). He maintains a lively Facebook presence. A retired newspaper editor and Navy veteran, he lives in Germantown, NY, with his wife Marilyn. During a newspaper career including the The Providence Journal (RI), Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, and Media News dailies in Ohio and New Jersey, he won a number of awards for newspaper writing, page design and photography. His career spanned two major transitions in modern journalism, one from hot lead typography to photo-offset and one to the Internet. He blogs frequently about the media, literature and culture at www.djelloulmarbrook.com.","products":[{"product_id":"saraceno-paperback","title":"Saraceno - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilly Salviati just wants to be a good soldier, to follow orders and live under the radar. It's all going well until he meets Hettie Warshaw one night on a dark street in Hell's Kitchen. Then his life unravels. \u003ci\u003eSaraceno\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a hit man whose good looks are equalled only by his gift for friendship. He survives the vicissitudes of good looks, but his gift for friendship puts him in the crosshairs of friends and enemies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, and Joey Adonis drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, but Djelloul Marbrook did and celebrates it with a poet's ear in this haunting tale of redemption.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67744499990751,"sku":"9780971890886","price":10.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xHmCNK5Wi29780971890886.webp?v=1790643138"},{"product_id":"making-room-paperback","title":"Making Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artist creates a magical room for a young psychiatrist's adopted infant nephew--a room with the heavens projected above and hideaways in the walls. To help him, he recruits a metallurgist haunted by a disturbed upbringing. As the three build this fantastic space, a rewarding friendship unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"... for those who entertain the subversive notion that the gifts with which they entered the world were lost--but may yet be recovered.\"\u003c\/em\u003e--Onlineoriginals.com (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This enchanting novella is a delicately wrought homage to Jung's famous principle of meaningful coincidence...\"\u003c\/em\u003e--\u003cem\u003eBreakfast All Day\u003c\/em\u003e, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDjelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (\u003cem\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElmira Star-Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWinston-Salem Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Star\u003c\/em\u003e, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the \u003cem\u003eLiteral Latté \u003c\/em\u003efiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTaos Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOrbis \u003c\/em\u003e(UK), \u003cem\u003eLe Zaporogue \u003c\/em\u003e(Denmark), \u003cem\u003eOberon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Same\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFledgling Rag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoets Against the War \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePoemeleon\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter and at djelloulmarbrook.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67899142275295,"sku":"9781909849297","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NzJzqTJV-r9781909849297.webp?v=1790938343"},{"product_id":"mean-bastards-making-nice-two-novellas-paperback","title":"Mean Bastards Making Nice-Two Novellas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed author Djelloul Marbrook here offers us two powerfully original novellas that centre on the New York art world. The Pain of Wearing Our Faces is about an art teacher in Manhattan and one of her students, a famous composer, who pledge to entertain each other as they try to remain sober. She goes in search of him when he disappears after confessing that his most famous work was plagiarized from a homeless woman in Woodstock. In the second novella, Grace, teenager Grace Torrance runs away from an abusive father when a Catskill mountain flood destroys their cabin. Without money she hitchhikes to Manhattan where she has no choice but to sleep among the homeless in Freedom Tunnel. When she meets a mysterious young art preparator she discovers her own talent for miniaturist painting and starts to believe in her future, but betrayal confronts her until her ability to make friends intervenes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and for many years was a newspaper reporter and editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, among others). His awards include the Wick Poetry Prize (2007), the Literal Latté fiction prize (2008), and the International Book Award in Poetry (2010). His poetry has been published in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Taos Poetry Journal, Orbis (UK), Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War and Poemeleon. He lives in New York's mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn and maintains a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter, Behance and at djelloulmarbrook.com.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67899190771935,"sku":"9781909849129","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iA9eChkA1D9781909849129.webp?v=1790938399"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/djelloul-marbrook.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}