Fiction. "Chuck Richardson's SMOKE probes human existence by pursuing truth and meaning in an unknowable, inexpressible universe, much like the authorities. What makes SMOKE fascinating is the imaginary catastrophe lurking behind it, which leaves us to invent and imagine the world anew"—Raymond Federman.

Author City: LOCKPORT, NY USA

Chuck Richardson has worked as a newspaper political reporter/columnist, freelance journalist, Greenpeace activist, cab driver, insurance salesman, substitute teacher, landscaper, nature preserve tour guide, bar bouncer, submarine SONAR technician, etc., and now finds himself gainfully employed as a direct care provider in a group home for mentally handicapped adults. Richardson's fiction has appeared in the Fall issue of BlazeVOX 2K7: An Online Journal of Voice, Mayday Magazine, and Thieves Jargon. His play, TV Land, was produced by the Buffalo Ensemble Theatre in 1997. From 2003 to 2005, Richardson maintained a broad web presence in the anti-Bush blogosphere, posting more than 100 screeds on more than 50 sites. One of them, "Looking for a Deathbed Conversion," was published in Howling Dog Press's The Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism (2007), a book which has received rave reviews from Harry Belafonte, Howard Zinn, and others. BlazeVOX Books has published two of his novels, SMOKE (2009), and SO IT SEAMS (2010). He lives in Western New York.

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