Literary critic Rachel Jagareski writes about A Bowl Full of Nails in Foreword Reviews, a quarterly trade journal.
BERKELEY, CA — May 15, 1969: It’s Bloody Thursday at People’s Park and street theater activist Gus Bessemer returns from his confrontation with the “pigs” with a butt full of birdshot and the need to skip town for a construction job a thousand miles away. In Charles Degelman’s A Bowl Full of Nails, Gus is served the titular breakfast by his live-in girlfriend the morning after he announces his solo travel plans. Foregoing this iron-rich snack, he hits the road for a transformative year with a mother lode of independent spirits in Montgomery, Colorado. Read more...
BERKELEY, CA — May 15, 1969: It’s Bloody Thursday at People’s Park and street theater activist Gus Bessemer returns from his confrontation with the “pigs” with a butt full of birdshot and the need to skip town for a construction job a thousand miles away. In Charles Degelman’s A Bowl Full of Nails, Gus is served the titular breakfast by his live-in girlfriend the morning after he announces his solo travel plans. Foregoing this iron-rich snack, he hits the road for a transformative year with a mother lode of independent spirits in Montgomery, Colorado. Read more...
From fact to fiction: I tore down and rebuilt the building with the blue trim and false front. It became the town community center, featured as a main character in my novel reviewed here, A Bowl Full of Nails. I'm amazed and delighted to see the fact behind the fiction still stands.
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