Art, Crime, and Lithium: On the Road with Literature and Delirium

Art, Crime & Lithium is an immigrant boomer’s bi-polar adventure saga spanning six decades over five continents as a writer, mobilist, smuggler, with multifarious jobs, easy women, one enduring marriage, brief successes, debilitating failures, spectacular recoveries, memorable dogs and healing walks on Oregon beaches. O.Z. Lysiak has worked as a reporter, editor, columnist, photographer, public affairs officer, restaurateur, carpenter, sailor, smuggler, tree planter, fishing guide, sculptor, truck driver, river guide, cook, wood cutter, trash collector, marine gravity operator and reclaimed wood broker. “I couldn't put the book down. Parts of it are jaw dropping; not only the situations, but also the evocative prose. The book is lyrical and pragmatic—a unique combination that will make it stand out—even apart from the interesting life it chronicles.” —Walter Alter, poet, musician and sculptor "A wonderfully evocative portrait of an era and a culture". —Leslie Fish, Author of A Dirge for Sabis and Offensive as Hell