Joshua Mohr's Blog, page 2
February 3, 2010
Vote for author photo on my new book!
I need help selecting an author pic for “Termite Parade.” The book is out in five months and we’re starting to work on packaging. I’ve narrowed it down to a few looks—-some asinine, some more standard - one choice is below for you to peruse. Please follow the link to cast your vote!
http://somethingsthatmeanttheworldtom...
Moustache Passion (Check out the competition by clicking the link above.)
http://somethingsthatmeanttheworldtom...
Moustache Passion (Check out the competition by clicking the link above.)
November 14, 2009
Oprah picks "Some Things that Meant the World to Me"!
O magazine released its holiday issue and ran a list of "10 Terrific reads of 2009" and they picked my novel! Here's what they had to say:
10 Terrific Reads of 2009
The books that gave us comfort, joy, and lots to talk about.
#8: Some Things That Meant the World to Me, by Joshua Mohr.
"Meet Rhonda, a man who spends his haunted, liquor-fueled days dumpster-diving for redemption. With his first line, "I'd like to brag about the night I saved a hooker's life," debut writer Joshua Mohr sucks you into Some Things That Meant the World to Me. Charles Bukowski fans will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco culminating in, of all places, Home Depot."
10 Terrific Reads of 2009
The books that gave us comfort, joy, and lots to talk about.
#8: Some Things That Meant the World to Me, by Joshua Mohr.
"Meet Rhonda, a man who spends his haunted, liquor-fueled days dumpster-diving for redemption. With his first line, "I'd like to brag about the night I saved a hooker's life," debut writer Joshua Mohr sucks you into Some Things That Meant the World to Me. Charles Bukowski fans will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco culminating in, of all places, Home Depot."
October 8, 2009
Excerpt from "Termite Parade"
My 2nd novel "Termite Parade" is due out June 2010. The SF Bay Guardian excerpted the first chapter in this week's issue:
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.ph...
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.ph...
September 15, 2009
The Collagist reviews the book
"Mohr’s remarkably confident, matter-of-fact style...deliver[s:] a series of resonating, understated emotional punches, beginning with the way Mohr regularly displays a poet’s ear for figurative language..."
http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/S...
http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/S...
August 8, 2009
Boston's Weekly Dig reviews "Some Things"
"Mohr's prose roams with chimerical liquidity."
Check out the review in its entirety.
http://www.weeklydig.com/%5Bcatpath%5...
Check out the review in its entirety.
http://www.weeklydig.com/%5Bcatpath%5...
July 3, 2009
Rumpus reviews "Some Things that Meant the World to Me"
“What Joshua Mohr is doing has more in common with Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Haruki Murakami, all great chroniclers of the fantastic. He’s interested in something weirder than mere sex, drugs, and degradation.”
Here's the whole review:
http://therumpus.net/2009/06/down-in-...
Here's the whole review:
http://therumpus.net/2009/06/down-in-...
June 5, 2009
SF Chronicle article about the novel
The fine folks over at the Chronicle had this to say about "Some Things that Meant the World to Me."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...
May 30, 2009
Mohr interviewed in SF Examiner
Here's a link to a short interview that ran in the SF Examiner a couple days back:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/46167...
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/46167...
Starred Publishers Weekly Review for "Some Things that Meant the World to Me"
My novel's PW review came out earlier today. Here's what they had to say in the starred review:
Mohr's first novel is biting and heartbreaking, a piercing look at the indelible scars a violent past has left on a young man named Rhonda. In the mental hospital where Rhonda spent his teenage years, a doctor he refers to as Angel-Hair diagnoses him with depersonalization, a disorder he uses to reconfigure the traumatic events of his life and render them in vividly surreal terms. To withstand the frequent absences of his alcoholic mother and her boyfriend's abuse, Rhonda imagines his childhood home in Arizona as a living thing, where rooms stretch and move, and desert wildlife wanders the halls. The disturbing narrative engine—Rhonda's renaming and reimagining of the world around him to fit into his damaged logic—keeps the story creepily moving as it touches on homebrew prison wine and Rhonda's friendship with his childhood self, little-Rhonda. Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it's as touching as it is shocking, even if the ending's a smidge sappy. (June)
Mohr's first novel is biting and heartbreaking, a piercing look at the indelible scars a violent past has left on a young man named Rhonda. In the mental hospital where Rhonda spent his teenage years, a doctor he refers to as Angel-Hair diagnoses him with depersonalization, a disorder he uses to reconfigure the traumatic events of his life and render them in vividly surreal terms. To withstand the frequent absences of his alcoholic mother and her boyfriend's abuse, Rhonda imagines his childhood home in Arizona as a living thing, where rooms stretch and move, and desert wildlife wanders the halls. The disturbing narrative engine—Rhonda's renaming and reimagining of the world around him to fit into his damaged logic—keeps the story creepily moving as it touches on homebrew prison wine and Rhonda's friendship with his childhood self, little-Rhonda. Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it's as touching as it is shocking, even if the ending's a smidge sappy. (June)
