Thanks to German novelist Alice Winter for this cool spring shot of the German edition of Carnival Desires. The English version is available on Kindle. Vanity Fair called it a “witty, minimalist epic.” Details magazine said it was “great postmodern literature.”

Published in 1990, it chronicles the adventures of a group of twentysomething friends in eighties Hollywood. I thought my life was pretty adventurous back then. And it was. It is more so now.

I’ve been in Indonesia and Chicago working on a case against Boeing. “Liability will not truly be in dispute here. Boeing is at fault. Their equipment failed. Their planes crashed twice,” I told Yahoo Finance.

Thanks for reading.

Mark Lindquist is the author of four novels, The King of Methlehem, published by Simon & Schuster in 2007, Never Mind Nirvana, published by Random House/Villard in 2001, Carnival Desires, published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990, and Sad Movies, published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987.

His books have been bestsellers, are published in more than ten languages, and have been widely and well reviewed by major publications.

“Echoes and ties to both Hemingway and Fitzgerald.”– Boston Globe

“Lindquist … captures the zeitgeist.  He does what no one has done as well before.” – Buffalo News

“Dialogue that’s absolutely pitch-perfect.” – Washington Post

“Great postmodern literature.” – Details

“Deadpan and witty.” – LA Weekly

“Smart, spare prose.” – Vanity Fair

“All is handled with wit and style by Lindquist.” – Detroit News

“Lindquist … once again has a view of the zeitgeist.” – Los Angeles Times