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Ken Anderson
(Aka Ken L. Anderson)
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Profile created April 15, 2007
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"Ken Anderson’s Someone Bought the House on
the Island: A Dream in Two Acts won the 2008 Saints and Sinners
Playwriting Contest and will premiere May 9 at the Marigny
Theater in New Orleans. It is a stage adaptation of his novel
Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal, which
sold out and was a finalist in the Independent Publisher Book
Awards, and the basis of a screenplay that is currently being
shopped for production. Widely viewed and celebrated, his books,
plays and screenplays include: Hasty Hearts, Mattie Cushman: A
Psychodrama, The Intense Lover: A Suite of Poems, The Crystal
Ball, The Statue of Pan and Permanent Gardens. His writing has
appeared in over 100 publications. A Professor Emeritus of
English, Anderson has been a consultant for a fine-arts journal
and a literary quarterly. His latest book, The Statue of Pan:
Six Stories, a Novella, and a Novella-Play, is now available. " --
Saints & Sinners |
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The Statue of Pan: Six Stories, a Novella, and a Novella-Play
(2007)
Two men lost in a snowstorm, a forensic psychiatrist and the man who stabs
him, a well-adjusted music student and a sexually repressed tennis
player, a former college quarterback and the twin of his former lover, a
handsome escort and the client who hires him, a murderer and his trick,
a music professor and a student with a foot fetish, a chicken hawk and a
suicidal hillbilly, as well as the crazy crowds at Mardi Grass in New
Orleans— these are just some of the exotic colors in the rainbow of
characters arcing through this provocative psychological study. “When
you live in a cold world,” one character says, “you have to build your
own fire. Right?” See who strikes the spark in The Statue of Pan.
Hasty Hearts: A Collection of the Best Fiction by Ken Anderson (2001)
Includes
his best-selling novel "Someone Bought the House on the Island," first
published to great acclaim in 1999.
Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal
(1998) -- Winner of the 2008 Saints & Sinners
Playwriting Contest, Finalist Independent Publisher Book Awards
A vacant house on an island in northwest Georgia in 1969, a
Kevlar vest, a hidden diary, a ruby ring, a snuff film,
marijuana,
peyote,
LSD, a menage a cinq, S&M, an open grave in a cemetery on Halloween,
rednecks and a rattlesnake, secret passages, a funeral and a fake suicide,
matches from the Club 69, vampires, a security robot, Druid mythology, and
the Village in New York on New Year's Eve--these are just some of the
mysterious ingredients in this decadent witch's brew of a book by
first-time novelist Ken Anderson.
Follow young Kevin, the handsome boy next door, as he steps from the
provincial world of his youth into the seductive circle of Dieter and "the
boys." Original, fun, vivid, thought-provoking--Someone Bought the House
on the Island is an earnest, literary work with a structure reminiscent of
Stoker's Dracula.
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Someone Bought the House on the Island: A
Dream in Two Acts (2006) -- Winner 2008 Saints
and Sinners Playwriting Contest
This play will premiere May 9, 2008 at the
Marigny Theater in New Orleans.
It is a stage adaptation of his novel
Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal.
Set in northwest Georgia in 1969, Someone is a gay romance with a vampire
motif. Kevin Green, a young gay caretaker, comes out and falls in love
with Dieter Kulta, the German industrialist who bought the house on the
island near where Kevin lives. However, during the affair, Kevin gradually
becomes a member of a cultish menage a cinq headed by Dieter. The play
explores such themes as Kevin’s quest for love and identity,
existentialism, and the nature of reality. Though a serious drama in its
own right, the play also makes a great Halloween spectacle.
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Mattie Cushman: A
Psychodrama (1986)
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