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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Anatolian Days and Nights:A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses and SaintsFor Immediate Release – Media Contact: Amy Constantine EMAIL: anatoliandaysandnights@gmail.com TELEPHONE: 856-786-2243 Wild River Books Announces the Release of a Timely, Deeply Moving and Entertaining Memoir of Friendship and Travel through one of the World’s Most Fascinating Countries: Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints
When Angie Brenner and Joy Stocke meet on a balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, little do they know that their lives are about to change. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature, and begin a ten-year-odyssey through one of the world’s most fascinating and misunderstood countries. From vibrant, cosmopolitan Istanbul to the heart of Mesopotamia, Brenner, single and a former travel bookstore owner; and Stocke, wife, mother and writer, take their readers on an unforgettable journey of discovery, dispelling the myth that adventure travel is only for the young. Using intuition, experience, and a bit of serendipity, Stocke and Brenner find excitement, friendship, love, and answers to questions about the roots of religions and politics in the most unlikely of places. Anatolian Days and Nights is an intimate, clear-eyed view of a fascinating country. Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner have captured the contradictions of modern day Turkey, while exposing the complex web of history at the heart of our human story. This book will make you want to grab your bags and hop the next flight to Istanbul. — Alan Drew, author of Gardens of Water In their touching, often humorous memoir, Anatolian Days & Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner write vividly about their journeys through one of the world’s most vibrant countries. The landscape and people slip beneath your skin until you are no longer sure whether you’ve become a part of Turkey or whether Turkey has become a part of you. As a frequent visitor to Turkey, I applaud Stocke and Brenner for skillfully weaving a tale that leaves me yearning to return. — Harriet Mayor Fulbright, President of Harriet Fulbright College, and Widow of Senator J. William Fulbright, Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Program Authors are available for book signings, lectures, and book club groups (in person and via SKYPE) to discuss a variety of subjects: - The Anatolian Days and Nights Journey: An intimate portrait of a country as experienced by women who travel “where angels fear to tread.” - How women travel differently than men: The rewards of traveling with women friends. - Traveling in a Muslim country after 911. The unexpected warmth of Anatolian culture. - Turkish Highlights: Rituals of the Turkish Bath 21st Century-style, Romance on the Bosporus, A Link to 15th Century Spain in the Grand Bazaar, Children with Ancient Bones new the World's First Church, A Kurdish poet on the shores of Lake Van. - Ethnic Turkey: The cultures of the Ottomans - Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Kurdish. - Search for the Mother Goddess: Religion’s earliest roots and how those stories resonate today. - Turkish Cuisine: Into Turkish kitchens. Recipes that make Turkey one of the world’s top three cuisines. - The Whirling Dervishes: And their roots of Sufism and the vision of mystic poet, Rumi. For more information and booking arrangements, contact: Amy Constantine, 856-786-2243 Wild River Books: P.O. Box 53, Stockton, NJ 08559 Contact: anatoliandaysandnights@gmail.com Authors' Website: www.anatoliandaysandnights.com Angie Brenner: angiebrenner@gmail.com Joy Stocke: stockey@mac.com Joy Stocke, WRR Editor-in-Chief  Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor in Chief of Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey, as well as religion, ancient and modern. She is the author of a bi-lingual book of poems, Cave of the Bear, translated into Greek by Lili Bita; and a novel, Ugly Cookies, co-written with Fran Metzman. Her travel memoir, Anatolian Days and Nights, based on ten years of travel through Turkey, co-written with Angie Brenner was published in March 2012 by Wild River Books. You can visit the book's website at: Anatolian Days and Nights.com. Or order Anatolian Days & Nights by clicking here: ADN. Her essay, Turkish American Food, appears in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (OUP, 2012).. An experienced editor, Stocke works with many of the writers who appear in the pages of Wild River Review, as well as clients from around the world. She has interviewed Nobel Prizewinners Orhan Pamuk and Muhammud Yunus, Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Muldoon, Roshi Joan Halifax, anthropologist and expert on end of life care; Ivonne Baki, President of the Andean Parliament; and Templeton Prizewinner Freeman Dyson among others. She is currently working with Harriet Mayor Fulbright, widow of Senator J. William Fulbright and President of Harriet Fulbright College, on Mrs. Fulbright's memoir. In 2006, along with Executive Editor, Kim Nagy, Stocke interviewed scientists and artists including Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman and Dean of Faculty, David P. Dobkin for the documentary Quark Park, chronicling the creation of an award-winning park built on a vacant lot in the heart of Princeton, a park that united art and science and community. She is on the board of the Princeton Middle East Society , and a member of the Turkish Women's International Network. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. In 2009, she became a Lindisfarne Fellow. EMAIL: jstocke@wildriverreview.com JOY STOCKE IN THIS EDITION: » View all articles by Joy Stocke |
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