STEVE KATZ WRITES
Published Works
-NEW:
Kissssss: A Miscellany
-Antonello's Lion
-Saw
-Swanny's Ways
-43 Fictions
-Journalism
-Florry of Washington Heights
-The Lestriad
-Wier & Pouce
-Stolen Stories
-Moving Parts
-Cheyenne River Wild Track
-Creamy & Delicious
-The Exagggerations of Peter Prince
-The Weight of Antony
Antonello's Lion • Winter 2004; Green Integer, Los Angeles CA
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"Mid-sixties is not so old any more." Max said. "I expect to be just hitting my stride. I'm going to have my people write a program that will allow you to age only virtually, while you remain young physically." He leaned over to smooch Holly.
News from Green Integer: Green Integer is proud to publish ANTONELLO'S LION, by the highly acclaimed author and winner of the America Award, for his previous novel, SWANNY'S WAYS... In his first novel since the acclaimed SWANNY'S WAYS, Steve Katz stares into the futility of Humanism in the West, collected through the lens of the great Sicilian renaissance master, Antonello da Messina. A father and son who have never met, both set out on quests for meaning in their lives. The father is obsessed with Antonello, and convinced he can find what he imagines is his lost painting of St. Francis. He gets lost himself on the way, and disappears. The son becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to his father, and his discoveries are more than he can fathom. This is a double picaresque populated by sublime and provocative paintings, levitating tourists, flying porcinis, an addled sacristan, brats with tats, monumental vaginas, Venice dissolving, Italian feasts, mozzarella mammas, goat/bat hybrids, quattrocento lusts, impassioned characters. The fragile positionings in art of design and order are played against the background of contemporary violence and chaos. The narrative takes turns through fantasy, sexual follies, financial grotesques, wild historical and philosophical speculations. It's a book that ends twice, both endings as unpredictable as they are inevitable.
