“Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
Michael Pastore is a novelist who lives in Ithaca, New York. Disenchanted by the Publisauruses (mega-publishers who ignore the value of literature as a humanizing element in culture) — and convinced that they were (or should be) heading for extinction — Pastore founded Zorba Press. Zorba currently publishes more than forty books, audio books, and ebooks.
He has written and edited more than a 20 books (11 paperbacks, and 10 PDF ebooks), many about working caringly and creatively with children, all currently available fom the Zorba Press website. Pastore's articles, essays, and interviews — about literature, sustainable living, children and childhood, and humanizing technology — have appeared in more than two dozen print publications nationwide.
As an expert in electronic publishing and the Internet, Pastore's words and photo were featured in an article in the New York Times newspaper on April 9, 2001. During the summer of 2000, he was contracted by a leading technology corporation to lead a team that developed a comprehensive online examination about the world of publishing: books, magazines, newspapers, and ebooks. In Spring 1999, one of his books was mentioned in the prestigious Times Literary Supplement.
Pastore lives in Ithaca, New York, with his library of more than 7,000 of the world's best books. About the importance of literature he writes: "Why read? ... The best books give us timeless hours of portable joy, expand our empathy and imagination, remind us of our past, bring hope to our future, caution us to live wisely, empassion us to seize the moment, show us ideals embodied in heroes and heroines, inspire us to be great lovers and rebels, give us courage to dare to be ourselves, corroborate our most sublime feelings, and point the way to deeper meaning in our everyday lives."
Pastore has recently completed a 100,000-word novel for adults (a comedy titled A Glorious Existence), and is now working on a new novel, a short book about Erich Fromm, and longer nonfiction works about Creativity and Love.
Copyright © 2007 by Michael Pastore.
