Bartleby, the Sportscaster
A novella
Herman Melville's classic, reimagined by Ted Pelton.
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"Ted Pelton has written an allegory about an allegory about real life. The memoir of the end of his first marriage, sandwiched between chapters about a fictional sportscaster and his silent colleague, Bartleby, offers us a sober frame for interpreting the fiction (his and Melville's). Neither life nor art can be imitated in Pelton's novel, for they are one and the same."
- Susan M. Schultz, author of Dementia Blog
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"Pelton is unpacking Melville’s Bartleby in search for answers to a deeply emotional and challenging time in his own life, when even an imagined character like Bartleby can be a lifeboat of understanding as well as a beacon towards or away from what we ourselves might become."
- J. A. Tyler, Pank Magazine
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Bartleby, The Sportscaster is animated by an uncanny spirit, a profoundly original tenderness. Ted Pelton is a master poet.
- Joseph Lease, author of The Body Ghost
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72 pages. Subito Press.
