Orange: The Diary of an Urban Surrealist - Paperback

by Stephen Janis (Author)

Drinking with his dead father, buying narcotics from an amateur chemist, trying to keep track of time, space and where he is . Orange is a distillation of futility and dreaming, over sleeping and lack of remorse, the story of a character living in his past, present through a simultaneous hallucinogenic binge.

Author Biography

Stephen Janis is an award-winning investigative reporter and the founder of Investigative Voice, an online investigative journalism web site. As a staff writer for the Baltimore Examiner (and one of only a handful who worked at the paper for its entire existence) he won a Maryland- Delaware-DC Press Association award in 2008 for investigative reporting on the high rate of unsolved murders in Baltimore. In 2009 he won a MDDC Press Association award for best series for his articles on the murders of prostitutes. He is the author of three books. This Dream Called Death, a novel which explores the cultural after shocks of mass incarceration by positing a world where people are imprisoned for the content of their dreams, and Orange, the Diary of an Urban Surrealist, which follows the descent of drug dealer pushing a substance that gives white people soul He also co-wrote "Why Do We Kill?" with Baltimore City Homicide detective Kelvin Sewell