House Stories

“Tune in, turn on, drop-out! In ‘House Stories,’ author Robert Knox returns to the tangle of lives and emotions of the love-laced, drug-laced, often lost, protest generation of the nineteen sixties. Six people in their early twenties share a house, their hopes, their ideals and their realities as the world they grew up in spins out of control.” – Judith Campbell, the author of the Olympia Brown and Viridienne Greene Mysteries

"It’s often said that poets write better criticism than critics, but some also produce better stories than most fiction writers. That’s the case with Robert Knox, a novelist, journalist, and naturalist, but, above all, a poet. The house of the book’s title is a Connecticut commune, circa 1970. The youthful characters are of the era too, stumbling out of post-adolescence into early adulthood, drugged, disorderly, erotically dazed. The narrator, looking back on the time and place, links the stories with a voice that is thoughtful and therefore honest. He can describe events precisely, such as a fire that nearly consumes the house—“...a demon of smoke and flame dividing its power, sending smoke up from two sources”—or nail what doomed an early marriage in a pointed epigram—“...everything, it turns out when you’re married, comes down to finances.” -- Robert Wexelblatt, author of The Thirteenth Studebaker, Petites Suites, Hsi-wei Tales, and other story collections.