NEAL THANE BOULTON
Thane & Prose founder Neal Thane Boulton is an editor, book publisher and former Columbia Journalism School Professor.
Neal Thane Boulton’s story
I studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Washington College on the Chester River, and witnessed excellence; there too, I studied fiction with Toni Morrison, and playwriting with Edward Albee, and witnessed the same.
Later, after serving as an Associate Professor at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, teaching the course The Role of Design in Journalism that I created for the school, I worked with George Plimpton and Frank McCourt in New York, and was inspired.
In 2014, after influencing over thirty magazines, newspapers and books, and serving as Editor in Chief to six titles, I founded a literary imprint, Thane & Prose, and searched for writers who did what these men and women did, who pursued the art of storytelling.
Today, my aim has a singular focus, that of literary excellence for the reader, something I strive for every day.—Neal Thane Boulton
THANE & PROSE BOOKS
THE STORY BY DR. MARIO GARCIA
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
“Our habits for consuming news and information have shifted dramatically. Today, we are a mobile society. Where once there was the broadside, now there is the mobile device as the constant companion for pushing not the day’s news, but rather the events of the second. However, in many newsrooms, the way in which stories flow on their way to publication is still as if they were going to appear in a print edition. A dance with Miss Nostalgia, and certain death for the Editor and Publisher of a newspaper. For publications that share the news to survive, transformation must occur, and The Story Volume I, II & III will illuminate how you can evolve—and why you must.”—Dr. Mario Garcia
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
With a foreword by Regis Philbin, In Real Time is a compendium of Kreskin’s most prescient predictions about the disturbing state of our culture, shocking trends in society, the dangers of technology—and the tenuous future of our world.
IOWA BY LUCAS HUNT
IN REAL TIME BY THE AMAZING KRESKIN
LET US IMAGINE LOST LOVE BY ROBERT DAY
In Iowa, Hunt brings his literary
camera closer to the fire within the belly of a boy poised to champion the writer's dream of life in Manhattan. Economic in style, lyrical and determined in voice, Iowa, from its first foreshadowing verse, will prove Ayn Rand right: “The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
LET US IMAGINE LOST LOVE BY ROBERT DAY
LET US IMAGINE LOST LOVE BY ROBERT DAY
LET US IMAGINE LOST LOVE BY ROBERT DAY
Teeming with reminisces of the ugly and beautiful, of youthful misunderstandings and secret longings, in Let Us Imagine Lost Love Robert Day offers us a man’s life as glossy, possible, and vast as a blank book.
THE ART OF THE DOG BY THOMAS PURCELL
LET US IMAGINE LOST LOVE BY ROBERT DAY
THE ART OF THE DOG BY THOMAS PURCELL
The Art of the Dog is a book about coach and athlete, rescue and redemption—and the irrepressible will within each dog to triumph over comical misadventure, and at times, brutal circumstances.
NEW EDITIONS
NEW YORK BY LUCAS HUNT
HOMESPUN BY J. JOSEPH PASTRANA
MAN’S STORY BY JC HOPKINS
The glamour and the ordinary interchange effortlessly in New York, revealing a newly vibrant city as vast with possibility as a blank page ripe for Mr. Hunt’s poetry. With lyricism and an irrepressible beat, New York defines a spectrum of urban experience with a deft hand and simultaneous voices of energy and solace.
MAN’S STORY BY JC HOPKINS
HOMESPUN BY J. JOSEPH PASTRANA
MAN’S STORY BY JC HOPKINS
Man’s Story is a crime-thriller-coming of age novel that takes place in Orange County, California in 1974. The style is reminiscent of writers such as Karl Knaussagaard Ove, Roberto Bolano and Elena Ferrante. It explores the themes of male violence inherent in the culture and how it is imbued in boys at an early age, specifically the two boys central to the story, Manuel and Gerald, who witness the secret lives of their fathers, which includes sex, drugs and murder. It also deals with the gradations of assimilation for Mexican Americans in Southern California.
HOMESPUN BY J. JOSEPH PASTRANA
HOMESPUN BY J. JOSEPH PASTRANA
HOMESPUN BY J. JOSEPH PASTRANA
Tweeds have stories to tell—of toil and privilege, of imagination and sheer will, of fortunes made and empires lost. It’s been fashioned into garments for beggars and Kings. Here are those stories from the men and women, the designers and artisans, whose inescapable destinies have been intertwined with tweed.
COMING 2023
ARTHUR BY BRETT F. BRALEY-PALKO
ARTHUR BY BRETT F. BRALEY-PALKO
ARTHUR BY BRETT F. BRALEY-PALKO
Arthur Croots employs a down-on-his-luck friend, Horace, and a has-been theatre director, Dreisbach, on a comedic caper to save his dogs from eviction—and perhaps steal some cash from the unsuspecting aristocracy of mid-century London in the process.
BADRI BY N. H. SAKHIA
ARTHUR BY BRETT F. BRALEY-PALKO
ARTHUR BY BRETT F. BRALEY-PALKO
In a society corrupted by violence and thwarted by a backlash of postwar Muslim extremism, there is no honest government to turn to. Badri tells the story of the owner of a large estate in Pakistan, with an even larger amount of power, calls for a trial with unspeakable consequences after the son of his servants is wrongfully accused of molesting his daughter. Later, the leader of the town’s largest mosque, renowned for his firebrand sermons and radical Muslim idealism, is called forth to gather the jury, along with a morally conflicted journalist. In this heart-wrenching account of hellish circumstance, the story critiques issues of patriarchy, the mistreatment of women, and a debased Muslim government—all with an insurmountable compassion for its people, the culture, and an unrelenting hope for a better life.