Michael Pastore is a novelist and non-fiction writer who lives in Ithaca, New York. His books are published by Zorba Press, and his latest ideas -- about literature, technology, culture, and sustainable living -- are essayed on his blog, Epublishers Weekly.
Pastore has written and edited more than 20 books, all currently available fom the Zorba Press website. His articles, essays, and interviews 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. His latest book, published in March 2009, is == 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Introduction to the Digital Reading Revolution.== |