Ordinary lives. Extraordinary circumstances. A man living on borrowed time after a heart transplant. A fugitive couple running from the FBI. A Holocaust survivor who shares the memories she has carried for a lifetime.You’re there at the midnight kitchen table, in the 3 a.m. hospital corridor, inside the safe house that doesn’t exist. Behind the gates of an oligarch’s mansion where absolute power plots its sins.Philip Dossick has spe...

Samuel Pepys never intended his diary to be read, yet it has become one of the most vivid, intimate, and revealing documents of the seventeenth century. Written in private shorthand and preserved by chance, Pepys’s record captures a decade when history refused to stay outside: plague creeping door to door, the Restoration reshaping public life, scientific curiosity awakening, and London itself consumed by fire.Pepys experiences catastrophe not as a historia...

Few figures in history have been examined more exhaustively than Adolf Hitler. His speeches have been dissected sentence by sentence, his military decisions reconstructed in minute detail, his private conversations preserved, his medical records scrutinized, and every significant event of his life subjected to decades of historical inquiry. Yet one question has remained as compelling as it is elusive: What was happening inside the mind of the man who plunged the world into its ...

Writer Philip Dossick is vacationing in Las Vegas when a young Canadian couple approaches him with a bizarre story.They had been climbing the ladder of success in Toronto. Life couldn't have been better. Then, almost overnight, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare world of doctors, treacherous colleagues, and an unimaginable betrayal.As everything collapses around them, wrong becomes right as they fight for their lives before...

At the height of the Vietnam War, a collective of passionate young actors and anti-war activists joined forces with writer-director Philip Dossick to produce The P.O.W. What began as a novel became, in its subsequent film adaptation, the first anti-Nixon, anti-Vietnam War feature film made in the United States—years before Hollywood dared to follow suit.Staged in deliberate defiance of commercial studio conventions, this raw, free-ranging assault o...

Three Novellas by Philip DossickBOOK ONEThe DepositionBOOK TWOMark Twain in SeattleBOOK THREEGina and Frank: A Brief Conversation With StrangersPHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W.He has written for television, including the outstanding drama, Transplant, produced by David Susskind for CBS.His most recent books inc...

Ten judiciously selected works address Dossick’s poetry, fiction, non-fiction, politics, and essays from 1978 to the present day:John Hurley's New Heart.Vincent Van Gogh.The Naked Citizen.Virginia Woolf.Lenny Bruce.Mark Twain’s Lost Manuscript.Elegies.Emma Goldman.Sex and Dreams.Slab City USA.Philip Dossick is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W.He ...

ABOUT THE NOVELAMELIA AND HOWARDSecrets of the DiaryWhat if everything you thought you knew about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance was a carefully crafted illusion?In the glittering twilight of the 1930s, Amelia Earhart soared above the clouds and into legend; but beneath the champagne sparkle and newspaper headlines, America's most celebrated aviatrix was drowning.

Prisoner C.3.3.“...I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world. And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived.“My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden; and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom...”—Oscar WildeOscar Wilde is notably celebrated as an artist persecuted for his homosexuality, a martyr for the cause of gay rights.He w...

ApocalypseThe Plague TalesByMary ShelleyJack LondonRichard JefferiesDaniel DefoeBack in 1826 a novel was written, The Last Man—that tells the story of humanity’s downfall in the 21st century.Scenes of horror increase by the hour. The disease proves unstoppable, causing the collapse of civilization. Ou...

*Slab City USA is a Philip Dossick short story about the true meaning of friendship.PHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W.He has written for television, including the outstanding drama, Transplant, produced by David Susskind for CBS.His most recent books include Aztecs: Epoch Of Social Revolution, Sex And Dreams, Mark Twain In Seattle, The Naked Citizen: Notes On Privacy In The ...

From the foreword by Philip Dossick:“The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed on January 31, 1865.In part, it reads as follows:Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.The simplest of words. But before that Amendment could be ratified, upwards of 800,000 American soldiers ...