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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: Albert Russos collected stories included in this hefty volume constitute an excellent testimony on the writers ability to create fiction which is both entertaining and thought-provoking in a surprising variety of contexts. All of Mr Russos readers know that he can write as easily about his native Africa as about present-day New York or Italy; and the collection, with stories set in different places and milieus, highlights his special talent at transporting his readers from one scene to another, in a kind of sentimental journey through human experience. Science fiction and fantasy are other paths trodden by Albert Russo in his quest for a pre-Babel reconciliation of man with himself in all his constitutive dimensions, linguistic and social, but also generic and transcendental.N E W S ! N E W S ! N E W S !Congratulations! Your submission to Writer''s Digest''s most recent Self-Published Book Competition was chosen as an honorable mention in its category! Your submission: The Crowded World of Solitude: The Collected Stories Category: mainstream/literary As an honorable mention winner, you will be listed along with other winners in the March 2006 issue. To get a sample of what the listing will look like, see the August 2005 issue, which profiles our most recent winners. Soon you will receive a formal letter from our competitions department. That letter will be accompanied by a Notable Award Certificate and instructions on how to collect your $50 worth of Writer''s Digest Books. Once again, congratulations! Chuck Sambuchino Assistant Editor Writer''s Digest magazine

Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician.I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but having first drained it of its essential qualities. Russo writes at all levels - a compulsive creator who is always going to have something important, or different , or both, to say. His work reaches into the very soul of contemporary living. Here, one comes to grips with many contemporary problems, all beautifully crafted and possessing the Russo hallmark of subtle observation. Each poem is a gem in its own right.Albert Russo possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but having first drained it of its essential qualities -, a compulsive creator who is always going to have something important, or different , or both, to say. Here, one comes to grips with many contemporary problems, all beautifully crafted and possessing the Russo hallmark of subtle observation. Each poem is a gem in its own right. EXPECTANCYtheres a world at peace and theres a world at warthe frontiers between the two shift and overlap like waves over the breakers at low tideand as you watch the evening newsyou feel your heart skitter across the wateron the safe side, or so you will yourself to believebut when in the dead of night you switch off the bedlampthe rumblings under your skinat first distant and familiarstart sending out portentous signalsthen, somewhere around the solar plexustheres an expectancy of pain searing as the alarm caused by a misfired thunderit shoots through the arteries to the cortexmaking the flesh quiver in its wakeand suddenly the echo of a reverberating crackle turns your entire body into an electric webso tightly packed you instinctivelyembrace all the destructive powerof mankinds follyN E W S ! N E W S ! N E W S !Congratulations! Your submission to Writers Digests most recent Self-Published Book Competition was chosen as an honorable mention in its category! Your submission: The Crowded World of Solitude: The Collected Stories Category: mainstream/literary As an honorable mention winner, you will be listed along with other winners in the March 2006 issue. To get a sample of what the listing will look like, see the August 2005 issue, which profiles our most recent winners. Soon you will receive a formal letter from our competitions department. That letter will be accompanied by a Notable Award Certificate and instructions on how to collect your $50 worth of Writers Digest Books. Once again, congratulations! Chuck Sambuchino Assistant Editor Writers Digest magazine 2008 BEACH BOOK BOOK FESTIVAL WINNERS! ATLANTIC CITY (May 3, 2008)POETRY: WINNER:# Weapon of Choice, Jeffery Martin RUNNER-UP:# The Crowded World of Solitude: Volume 2, Albert RussoJM Northern Media LLC, Beach Book Festival - 323-665-80807095 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 864, Hollywood, CA 90028Bruce Haring - email: b

"The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness" is a trilogy of Albert Russos award-winning African novels set in the former Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi. In The Black Ancestor, the reader will find, as in the two other novels, Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood or your son Lopold, many poignant and delightful passages, especially in the journeys across the magnificent Kivu province, which today, along with bordering Rwanda and Burundi, has been scarred by fratricidal wars. That Leodine, in the opening novel, happens to be an adolescent, as was Leopold in Mixed Blood, isnt fortuitous, for it is at that vulnerable period of ones life that ones personality takes form. In Albert Russos Africa you will find humankinds infinite diversity and, amid such richness, a quest for the deep self. Eric Tessier.Albert Russo has recreated through a young African boys joys and struggles many of the tensions of modern life, straight and gay, black and white, third world and first ... all of these tensions underlie this story of a biracial child adopted by a benevolent American. Mixed Blood or Your son Leopold is a non-stop, gripping read!" Edmund White.