Kirjahaku

Joe Linker's first novel, "Penina's Letters" (2016), follows the recently discharged Salty Persequi returning from war to the girl he left behind on the beach in Santa Monica Bay. Draft segments of "Penina's Letters" appeared in The Boulevard, a publication of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. Parts of the "How to Surf" chapter appeared in different form on Berfrois, and part of the "Separation" chapter appeared on Cosmopolitan Hotel Cairo.

Short essays, fiction, and poems. New and Collected Writing from Joe Linker, author of Penina's Letters.

Alma Lolloon is writing a book about her five husbands, and she reads installments of her work in progress to her surprised knitting group. The group's boisterous feedback influences Alma's writing as she tells her story from childhood to old age, improvising to find her pitch and style.