TroutPomeroy Publishing
The writer's career works are available for the price of a few dozen doughnuts and a couple of pots of coffee ... from room service at a 5-star hotel in Tokyo.
If you have nothing better to do between now and one hundred years from now, you can read this work until the cows go on vacation. Send an e-mail for ordering information.
Here are highlights:
COMING SOON! One Brief Run. A collection of newspaper pieces, 1977-1987. Periodicals including The Detroit Free Press; The Birmingham Patriot; The Oakland Press; The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader; and Detroit Sports Confidential published this work. Order yours for $10.
Read "A legend on his own time"
Read "Pittson Area High School ceremony takes on a family flair"
You Can't Blame the Dog. Order this collection of essays for only $8.
Larceny of Letters. Order your very own copy for a mere.... for only.... well, just send an e-mail and make an offer. We can't refuse!
Read the prologue
Hot off the presses, the newest collection of TroutPomeroy columns: Fish Out of Water. Order your very own copy for a mere $8!
Much Love: Letters From A Mother. $15
Facing 50: An Essay In Aging -- Available at $10 each in booklet form, as long as they last, or the planet does. Early drafts of a work rejected by every major publishing interest in New York City, according to an agent who wasn't an agent but may some day wish he had been, given the ascent of this honkey's career. Stream of consciousness dedicated to the Fab Four, the generation they slammed to the mat and to everyone flirting with 50, either as an age or number of beers consumed that week.
Read Chapter One
Secret Streams -- Fifty poems from the era of the 32-inch waist. $10.
Read the title poem
Having Said That -- One hundred of the world's best TroutPomeroy columns. $10.
Days Gone Bill -- An essay on yodeling. Featuring the unlikely protagonist, Happy Bill Hanson, cast amuck in a plastic, craven American culture but with one primary instinct -- a need to yodel. $10.
Read Chapter One
TroutPomeroy: The Original Beers -- From 1982 to 1997, TroutPomeroy was a printed newsletter. During that time, about 55 newsletters were mailed to friends throughout America, as well as Indiana. Anyone deranged enough to want to read them again can do so -- for an embarrassingly large amount of money, that is. $25.
TroutPomeroy: The Newspaper Beers -- From 1976 to 1987, TroutPomeroy did business as Trout Pomeroy, newspaper reporter/columnist/music critic. This collection features the best of the beast from that new era in potato chips. (Potato chips?). $15.
TroutPomeroy: The Early Beers -- From 1960 to 1976, TroutPomeroy was a very young person whose writings reflected politics, the counter culture and many points in-between. This collection seeks to explore the outer edges of the inner ear, as heard for the first time in stereo about fifteen minutes ago. $15.
Changeless Change -- On the road, notebook in hand. Images from the highway, variations on growth as perceived by slim hitchhiker from 1969-1971. One critic said, "This thing is long." $25.
BOOKS
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If Others Remember by Trout Pomeroy |
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Swimming Downstream by Trout Pomeroy |
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A link exists herein to journey through cyberspace to the source of these enriching bodies of work. Here is a thumbnail sketch of each book:
If Others Remember
This late-‘60s memoir is shocking but true, banal but benevolent, highly personal yet broadly general. Wacky as hell at times while grimly serious at others, this book could possibly border on sheer pointlessness except for the fact the time-period it evaluates has turned out to be of insane historical interest to younger readers. Readers will traverse the 1968-1972 Era through the experiences and perspectives of the non-celebrity writer who was passing through his mid-20s at the time with a brain that worked fairly well at least occasionally. Readers will encounter the Kent State shootings, the American Vietnam War and the emergence of marijuana and later, cocaine, in contemporary culture. You will also meet two primary characters in this authentic drama, the legendary lawyer-to-be, Spike, and the gorgeous motel swimming pool life guard, Nancy – each of whom entered the writer’s life and in rather blatant ways directed his journey from straight-as-shit right wing Republican to quasi-commie, war protesting psychedelic warrior, and back again.
Swimming Downstream
This collection of columns, writings, newspaper articles and death threats contains approximately 100 pieces all bearing the signature style of a writer who was once compared to Aunt Jemima. No thematic consistency unites this work. Instead, the writer leads the reader on a wild romp around a camp for retired nymphomaniacs embracing topics as diverse as noodle extraction and gargantuan gargling while tacitly ignoring physics, algebra and Latin studies. Even though ambitious fish opt for upstream angling this slimy sludge indulges the concept of going with the flow as triumphantly as possible. Flying in the face of the advice of several literary agents who warned the writer “anyone can write a column,” this body of work deserves a place in the pantheon of post-Puritanical prose as it also has the potential to work on the body of the reader, especially the funny-bone.
E-Books
Some of the writer’s books –
Larceny of Letters: Breaking in as a Writer (Intro) (Prologue) 
Days Gone Bill (Intro)
Facing 50: An Essay on Aging (Intro)
One Brief Run (Intro)
