Open Road Press is a new project of the Open Road, starting at the beginning of 2024.
Open Road Press publications need to be consistent with the Mission & Vision of The Open Road. A portion of the profits from sales of our books will be donated to Open Road Press to seed future publications.
Our first publication is The Nonstop Love-In: poems, stories, essays & other writings by Johnny Stallings.
There was a Book Reading & Signing at Belmont Books, 3415 SE Belmont, on April 17, 2024.
You can buy a copy of the book from Belmont Books.
Multnomah County Library has ordered 12 copies. You can place a hold now!
You can order a copy of the book from Open Road Press. Make out your check for $20 (includes shipping) to “Open Road Press” and mail it to:
Open Road Press
4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd., PMB 268
Portland, OR 97214
You can also get a copy by emailing me at:
The book can be ordered from the websites of:
IngramSpark
Powell’s
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
There was a Book Launch on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024, at Ross Island Grocery & Cafe. It was a total Love-In!
From the back cover:
If you know Johnny, you will love this book. If you don’t, after reading, you will want to meet him—by reading this book. Who else can provide such a good-humored, big-hearted, modern Socratic quest into the nature of human happiness, and the myriad paths to finding joy? Johnny lived in India—and in the remote Eastern Oregon town of Ashwood. He’s spent years in prison—as a generous visitor creating dialog circles to bring lively thought to shadowed lives. And all the time he was writing these zesty morsels of insight, poem, story, meditation, and manifesto just for you.
—Kim Stafford, author of As the Sky Begins to Change
peace, love & happiness
Johnny