{"title":"Peter Georgas","description":"Peter Georgas, author of Dark Blues, The Empty Canoe and The Fifth Slug, earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Minnesota. Following a decade in advertising, he joined the staff of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as the museum's first full time publicist. Later, along with his family, he moved to Austria, where he was Director of the Salzburg Seminar. He and his wife now live in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis.","products":[{"product_id":"the-curse-of-the-big-water-paperback","title":"The Curse of the Big Water - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFischer Art Center 1968: Pop Art is onstage and Minimalism is in the wings but Damon Petroulis, Director of Public Relations, has to put his exciting job on hold to write a history of the reclusive family that endows the Art Center. 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