Three Rooms Press

Step behind the curtain and into the extraordinary world of Geraldine Page, one of America’s most celebrated actresses, as her only daughter shares the triumphs, struggles, and backstage stories that shaped them both.

From Depression-era Chicago to Broadway’s golden age and the rebellious 1970s New York punk scene, Angelica Page tells the story of growing up as the only daughter of legendary actress Geraldine Page in A Delicious Life: Growing Up with Geraldine Page. This intimate, heartfelt memoir reveals the private life behind a public icon, offering a rare glimpse into the world of theater, film, and television through the eyes of someone who lived it.

Inside these pages, readers will find:

• Behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and The Actors Studio
• A mother-daughter relationship shaped by artistry, ambition, and love
• The highs and lows of life in the fast lane of show business
• A celebration of Geraldine Page’s enduring artistic legacy

A Delicious Life is perfect for fans of memoirs, celebrity biographies, and theater history. It is a moving tribute to one of America’s greatest actresses and a daughter’s love letter to the woman who shaped her world.

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch. The visit coincided with the shamanic exorcism of the demon that Burroughs believed had caused him to fatally shoot his common law wife, Joan Vollmer Burroughs, in 1951—the event that Burroughs believed had driven his work as a writer. The conversation is interspersed with photographs by Ginsberg revealing Burroughs’s daily activities from his painting studio to the shooting range. DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS presents an important, hitherto unpublished primary document of the Beat Generation.

Finalist, 2017 Foreword Reviews Indie Book Awards for Adult Fiction

When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the “spirituality” section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The problem is, his beliefs don’t fall within any of the categories. Silas believes that selflessness enlarges vision and that what a person should strive for is to be overcome by the beyond. He believes in honoring otherness and in giving questions credence over certainty. He calls himself a Cosmoterian because his goal is to make himself worthy of the majesty of Cosmos. Silas is a man driven by big ideas, but it is the everyday smallness that perpetually both intrigues and eludes him.

In this emotional tale of haunted love, Silas finds himself locked in a marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not be alive. In ways enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three women draw him into the equivocal nature of dreams and reality, their influences leading Silas on a journey toward what may be light and a new belonging to something vastly beyond himself.

Just as William Least Heat-Moon’s nonfiction employs many fictional narrative techniques, Celestial Mechanics draws upon nonfictional devices to build a story that crosses traditional boundaries between the two. Celestial Mechanics is the clarion call of a generation that believes rationality and spirituality can—and should—coexist, a generation defined by globalization, where the only things left unknown are what is within and beyond us, those cosmic realms revealed by the telescope and the quantum world suggested by the microscope. This book is for those of us steeped in a hustle-and-bustle world we can’t escape, who believe that practices like mindfulness and rational deduction and childlike wonder are the keys to the kind of fulfillment that the commercial aspects of our lives can never hope to address.