Alan Cheuse is the author of five novels, including To Catch the Lightning (winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for fiction for 2009), several collections of short stories, two novellas, and a collection of travel essays. Cheuse serves as book commentator for NPRs evening newsmagazine All Things Considered, and as a member of the writing faculties at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. His 1986 novel The Grandmothers Club will appear this spring in a revised edition under the title Prayers for the Living. His piece Hakodateyama comes from a novel-in-progress and is featured in Catamarans eighth issue! Arrived at port: harbor of Hakodate, largest city on Hokkaido, Japans northern island, where the winds blew cold and smelled of salt and wood smoke. Japanese men in uniforms took him from the ship and sat him down in a small office in a wooden building near the pier. He showed them his military passport, and they nodded, and chattered. He understood nothing they said. Within a few minutes the men departed, leaving Philip with his thoughts, and a long while passed before they returned, accompanying a wiry man old enough to be Philips father, who spoke to him in Russian with a Moscow accent. —Alan Cheuse
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