Larry Lockridge

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The Great Cyprus Think Tank was published October 4th, 2021. This is the second of four standalone yet interrelated satirical novels, The Enigma Quartet, to be published by Iguana Books, Toronto. A Zoom champagne launch party was held November 18th, 2021.

The Cardiff Giant was published January 11th, 2021. A Zoom champagne launch party was held January 21st, 2021.

I appeared on Zoom into Books, a one-hour interview with Cathy Teets to discuss The Cardiff Giant, January 25th, 4:00 p.m., EST.

I was interviewed by Malachy McCourt on WBAI FM 99.5, February 21st, 11:00-12:30 a.m., EST, in which we discussed The Cardiff Giant in light of contemporary American politics.

I was interviewed by Danielle Hampson on The Authors Show, a podcast on The Cardiff Giant released to many venues beginning April 22nd, 2021.

Out of Wedlock, the third novel of The Enigma Quartet, was published by Iguana Books, Toronto July 18, 2022. There was no Zoom champagne launch but friends and acquaintances are being sent links for purchase of the novel on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.

The Woman in Green, the fourth novel of The Enigma Quartet, was published by Iguana Books, Toronto on January 5th, 2023, the 75th anniversary of the publication of Raintree County, Houghton Mifflin, January 5th, 1948. The Woman in Green is indirectly an homage to my father Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s only novel, Raintree County. No Zoom launch for this one, on the assumption that people are zoomed out.

I was interviewed in Bryant Park, 3:00-4:00, July 12, 2022 by John Kulka, Editorial Director, The Library of America on its 75th anniversary republication of my cousin Mary Jane Ward's 1946 novel, The Snake Pit, for which I wrote a substantial afterword. Representatives of the New York Public Library and Penguin Random House were in attendance; the novel was originally published by Random House.

The Woman in Green, Raintree County and the first Kinsey Report are discussed at length in the cover story of the Dec./Jan 2022-23 issue of Bloom magazine, "75 Years Ago Bloomington was the Sex Capital of the Universe," by Carmen Siering (pp. 94-104).

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carl-rollyson/episodes/Larry-Lockridge-discusses-his-biography-of-his-father-Ross-Lockridge-and-his-novel-Raintree-County-e2bir27/a-aaithck

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carl-rollyson/episodes/Listening-to-Larry-Lockridge--Part-2--biographer-turned-novelist-e2bstah/a-aajtgl9

"If Kurt Vonnegut had written a new version of Midsummer Night's Dream and set it in Indiana, the result would be The Woman in Green. Like many of Vonnegut's novels, the book is a wise and witty satire--of academics, of American history, of science, turtles and theologians--filled with Hoosier Easter eggs: the history of New Harmony and Tecumseh and the Kinsey Institute and the Wabash River. For anyone who knows Ross Lockridge's great American novel Raintree County, The Woman in Green is a must read, a loving tribute by a son to the mythical place created by his father, where characters from both novels meet."

Susan Neville, award-winning author of Indiana Winter, In the House of Blue Lights, Sailung the Inland Sea, and The Town of Whispering Dolls

"Mr. Lockrige brilliantly skewers the pretensions of our modern dystopian age with devasting humor and inspired ranting. A trimphabt conclusion to The Enigma Quartet."

Former Congresssman Roberet J. Mrazek, author of twelve awarding-winning books and winner of the American Library Association's top honor for military fiction, the Michael Shaata Award for Civil War fiction, and Best Book (American History) from the Washington Post

"I read Out of Wedlock at one go, sitting down in th morning to give it a try and not getting up until early evening, when, with a deep sigh of satisfation, I read the final line. With a plot as screwy as its characters, it charges ahead with manic energy. With all the fun you're having, you may not be prepared for how much Out of Wedlock will move you. Lockridge is our Voltaire and Out of is his Candide."

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex; MacArthur Fellowship, National Humanities Medal

"Unfiltered by the bonds of matrimony, Larry Lockridge's intertwined couples traverse an impressive range of sexual possibilities, abetted by life in the Village, social media, and Shakespearean comedy. A romp, a puzzle, a meditation on identity and love, this novel shows us canonic English literature relfected int he mirror of an appreciaive, if irreverent, mind."

Wendy Steiner, author of The Scandal of Pleasure and librettist of The Loathy Lady and Bienalle

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The Great Cyprus Think Tank

"Mindful of all kinds of disaster, this is a novel of deep comedy, energy, and chastened joy. I strongly advise you to ride out any tsunami on the backs of Lockidge's sea turtles."

-Maureen N. McLane

The Cardiff Giant

"A pungent satire of human gullibility, this fierce, upbeat novel is a timely restorative in a dark season."

-Malachy McCourt

The Enigma Quartet

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