Empty American Letters

Like Samuel Beckett, McGonigle observes what might be full is empty and what appears to be empty may, in fact, be full. In this collage of verbal snapshots (where remembering becomes forgetting and the attempt to forget becomes obsessive frustration), we wander through the byways of Bulgaria and America during the forty days via the Orthodox aerial toll booths until the soul is judged. Absurdity becomes sanity and vice versa. Autobiographical fragments coalesce in mosaic format conjuring a pilgrimage to discover love, loss, laughter, irony, and significance in the oddest quirks of life…. —Kevin T McEneaney, Author of Hunter S. Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo and other books Thomas McGonigle was born at 110 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, some years ago. His patriotism is divided Patchogue, Dublin, Sofia and a base on East First Street in Manhattan. His In Patchogue , The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov (in English and Bulgarian), Going to Patchogue , Diptych Before Dying (in Bulgarian), St. Patrick's Day another day in Dublin . abcofreading.blogspot.com