An Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire (Paperback or Softback)

Norton flexes his literary muscles and takes on an impressive breadth of topics in these gritty, passionate tales. He turns genres inside out, has a hell of an ear for dialogue and knows how to tell a good story.

Dean Monti, author of The Sweep of the Second Hand

Greg Norton's stories resonate with the reader like the rumble of a glass-pack muffler off the hard Chicago streets many of his characters ply. Norton's alter ego, Peter MacNaughton, is one part Philip Marlowe and one part Joe Hill and real as the Hawk in January, no matter what situation he finds himself in. Guns, drugs, the down and out, union activists, and everyday people, Norton brings them all to life with amazing clarity. Great reading!

Jim Chandler, Editor, Thunder Sandwich, Author, Parallel Blues

Fast-paced and sometimes furious, these linked Chicago stories involve burnt-out radicals, women in flight, workers that get away with things while searching for self-respect. There a few old-style labor battles too, and for once the union rep actually wins an argument with the company guy. It's worth a read in times when even partial victories are hard to come by.

John Crawford, Editor, West End Press

Norton's work is strikingly original and highly inventive, but perhaps more importantly, possesses a strong sense of political relevance.

Fred Schepartz, Editor, Mobius: A Journal of Social Change

Greg Norton's fiction gives an accurate and vivid portrait of some of the most important currents of rebellion in working-class life. Very few writers today have a clue about this paramount question in American life. His novel There Ain't No Justice, Just Us and some of the stories in this collection, notably "Factory," open a vista of the possibilities of revolt for the working-class majority against the capitalist parasites. They are inspiring.

Tim Hall, Editor, Struggle Magazine

Norton has been an activist in the civil rights, peace, and labor movements. He served as an organizer and newspaper editor for the United Steelworkers and has served in other unions as well. Before moving to Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, his family came from Pays des Illinois, specifically that part of Old Upper Louisiana around Vincennes, Indiana. Born into the Vincennois community, he is a French American writer with relatives on both sides of the Atlantic. "For artists living in the United States, I think one of our responsibilites is to try to understand the socail decay occurring all around us as the Psychotic Atomik Empire continues to decompose. As in the days of the decline of the Roman Empire, we see wonderful roads being constructed, permanent imperial warfare, strange new apocryphal religions arise, outrageous public corruption, and a growing sense among people that it's all going to end badly," says Norton. "I like art that tries to look at society in terms of social class mediated by a variety of other social phenomena such as race, gender, age, and nationality. When that analysis is tempered by an interior psychological exploration of personality, then, rich, meaningful, art seems to be produced. So, what is psychosocial art? I think that it's art that examines a human society splintered by social class, gender, race, and nationality. It's the kind of art that investigates the driving forces deep within the human psyche. And it's art the mediates between the outer and inner worlds of the human being."