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If you've read IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE, one of Terry Davis's memorable novels, you already know the author has long been in love with classic cycles. What may surprise you is the fact that he'll open Clandestine Classic Cycles in Rapidan, Minnesota on May 1, 2007. Two worlds collide, with blissful results.

For more about Clandestine Classic Cycles, click HERE.

Coming in May 2005

Davis in 2007.

Edited by Jon Scieszka
May 2005 from Viking

NEWS BRIEFS

Don't miss...
Davis's essays for Static, an alternative weekly in Mankato. They are food for progressive thought, sure to feed your hunger for common sense.

Essay at Sols Books
Don't miss Davis's wonderful essay, "A Light at the Beginning of the Tunnel," at this LINK.

Festival Supreme
Terry Davis was one of many writers featured at the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival on April 29 in Fairport, New York. For a look at the festival website, click HERE. For a look at pictures from the event, click HERE.

Recommended Book
Davis took the time to blurb Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga. Check it out HERE.

New Press
The Spokesman Review featured a terrific article on Davis on March 12, 2006. Check it out HERE.

VISION QUEST 2005
Delacorte released a 26th Anniversary edition of VISION QUEST this year. Be sure to check it out on the Random House web site HERE.

GUYS WRITE FOR GUYS READ
Davis contributed a remarkable essay to Jon Scieszka's wonderful Viking anthology, GUYS WRITE FOR GUYS READ. Dozens of boy-centric authors -- including Chris Crutcher, Will Weaver, Chris Lynch, Walter Dean Myers, and many more -- left their marks, but none more tender than Davis's. Available this month.

About RUSH HOUR -- "SIN"
"The most striking and potentially controversial story in the collection is 'The Silk Ball' by Terry Davis, which weaves Hmong folklore into a story about the United States' secret war in Laos during the Vietnam period. Graphic violence and sexuality punctuate a story filled with poetic vision, longing and loss. Adults may be hesitant to let their young ones read this material, never mind the fact that the characters in the story --- and the age of actual soldiers in military conflicts then and now --- are closer to the age of the intended readers than the adults who would want to shield impressionable young minds from such material." TeenReads.com
Don't miss Michael Cart's wonderful collections. Vol 2, BAD BOYS is also now available, and Vol 3, FACES will be available this spring.

If Rock and Roll Were a Movie
...Terry Davis's moving feature in VOYA is now available for perusing online. To read the text, click HERE.

The Time Machine
Davis's version of several classic works adapted as graphic novels for Minnesota based Stone Arch Books will be released soon, starting with THE TIME MACHINE. Look for a blurb from Davis's friend Chris Crutcher.

New cover

Newer cover

THIS...OR THIS?

Looks like the answer is the cover on the right. But both have been offered up as covers for the new anniversary edition of VISION QUEST from Random House's Delacourt imprint in May of 2005.

VISION QUEST COVER ART

Have you seen the MANY faces of Vision Quest? You haven't until you've checked out this NEW feature on Davis's website. Just a few visual fun facts from the past, with an eye for the future. Click HERE for more VQ History.

Praise for VISION QUEST

"Davis is a wonderful storyteller...VISION QUEST is the truest novel about growing up since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE; and it's a better novel about wrestling, and wrestlers, than THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP."
~John Irving

"The book is still fresh and true to life...Eastern Washington University Press has done a service to a new generation of young readers."
~Jim Naughton , Washington Post, June 2, 2002

2003 Edition

ROCK & ROLL ...
...is here to STAY!

In print again, as of May 2003, thanks to EWU Press. Order your copy today.

Raise a glass to VOYA magazine for naming R&R its Mock-Retro-Printz Award winner for 1993. The brainchild of YA librarians Sarah Cornish (“Booktalking: Get Your Foot in the Classroom Door”) and Patrick Jones ("Creating a Core Collection for Young Adults" Neal-Schuman, spring 2003), the hypothetical award committee of 125 expert voters cast their ballets to comply with standard rules for Printz title eligiblility.

Click here to read the full article from VOYA.

“The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl has the weight and unequivocal intensity of great literature for any readership. Barry Lyga’s first novel transcends type by pushing deep and far with the characters at hand, particularly the too-smart-for-his-own-good, outcast narrator. From the very opening pages, sophisticated readers will recognize that they are in the hands of a very smart writer.” -–Terry Davis