10 of 24 on the 24th February 2014: We are Alverston & Associates because of Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011).

Paul Auster

Listened to his wife

Extraordinaire

Siri Hustvedt

And edited thousands

Of short stories

“Dispatches” from

The “frontlines” of American

Living

And decided that 179 ought to be

Recorded into a written document

A book entitled

I Thought My Father Was God

And Other True Tales From

National Public Radio’s

National Story Project

Published 2001 by Henry Holt and Co.

And Picador USA the next year.

Each story resonates with equal beauty

None falls short of extraordinary.

Only element shared between each gleam

Into American thinking is the

Commitment of its editor to

Shed twenty-minute intervals on the radio

Every weekend

About a few of the ones that captured

The unimaginable or the commonality

Of our lives in the old and new millennia.

Sophie’s father,

New Yorker,

Very much the Sebastian Junger in precision

And providing a voice to the everyday

Happenings that make this country

A survivor with attention span deficit

And occasional disbelief.

A new standard in literary anthology.

Originally released on Saturday, June 11, 2011 by Alverston & Associates (we are because of Steve Jobs).