A Book of Facts

“You’ll have a hard time pigeonholing this book,” says New Atlantian Library’s editorial director Hollis George. “But you’ll be talking about this innovative work for weeks after you finish reading it.”

“Fascinating …” says Nick Teranzi of The Polemicist Post. “I usually prefer factual tomes but Gary Alexander has delightfully lured me into reading a novel of sorts.”

This book started as a dream that visited Gary Alexander in the middle of the night, and wound up as a strange “novel” told A to Z. Not your typical storytelling approach, but one that will tickle your intellect and give you an assortment of facts that fashion an unusual fiction. It resembles a Farmer's Almanac or World Almanac. The book is structured chronologically and alphabetically, years and letters advancing together.

A prolific author, Gary Alexander has written 16 novels and 150 + short stories. One story appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2010, another in Ice Cold, last year's Mystery Writers of America anthology. Alexander is a nonsmoking, nondrinking vegetarian. He does, however, abuse caffeine and chocolate.