Uncommon Hours: October 2019

Saturday, October 5, 2019

'Losing Francis' receives highest honors at the 2019 Thorpe Menn Awards luncheon

Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home is the recipient of the 2019 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award, sponsored by the American Association of University Women - Kansas City.

https://www.fomitepress.com/losing-francis-essays-on-the-wars-at-home.html

What they're saying about Where the Wind Blew

"Bob Sommer hears the music and voices of the past and gives you what America has become today.” —Mason Williams (of “Classical Gas” fame)

"... a masterful job of evoking memories of the halcyon days of political activism."
--The Baby Boomer Brief

"This blistering, fast-paced tale of a man whose radical past catches up with him ... cross-examines our culture, then and now." --Chronogram

“I had a hard time putting WHERE THE WIND BLEW down.” —Robert Pardun, author of Prairie Radical: A Journey through the Sixties

Scroll down for more commentary and excerpts from WHERE THE WIND BLEW.