Book cover featuring an American flag background with silhouettes of a running figure and a donkey, titled 'Timberline' by Douglas Gray. Tagline mentions a modern Huck Finn and a plot against America during Nixon's era.

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Book cover of "Wasted Year" by Douglas Gray, featuring a stylized image of a building with large columns in vibrant colors.
Book cover for "Words on the Moon" by Douglas Gray, featuring a crescent moon and a small tree image.

Wasted Year: The Last Hippies of Ole Miss

Meet Daniel Medway, rumored to be the most dangerous student on the Ole Miss campus . It’s August 1971, and Daniel is about to embark on the wildest year of his life, in the company of his friends Garrett, Clamor, Dr. Goodleigh and a cast of unforgettable characters that includes a mad Chinese chef, a sometimes invisible dog, an ex-KGB agent, and a kindly stranger who might just be Elvis in disguise.

This is a laugh-out-loud funny novel . . . a generous epic (two to three times the size of a typical novel) revolving around a college town in the early '70s, as much of the hippie movement did at the time.” Jnana Hodson – Goodreads

Words on the Moon (poems)

The soul is a stick.
Throw it spinning across the sky
as high or as far
as you like,
it always falls to earth
where it belongs.
A friend waits there
to fetch it back to you.
~from “Dog Cremated While Its Master Is Buried in Pet Cemetery”

Gray pays fervent heed to the worlds we inhabit and the worlds that dwell in us. A marking of significant time, a quest for nothing short of love, this is an eminently satisfying book of poems.” ~ David Citino, author of The House of Memory