This is the 14th yearly journal by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton that shows him on the cusp of fatherhood as he battles with himself…
Journal 1984: Overcoming Asthma and Changing Careers is the 13th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. While teaching high school English in…
Journal 2014: The Life of an Unknown Writer is the 12th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. The main topics Sutton covered…
Journal 2015: History of One Man is a history of one year in San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton’s life. Religion, Sports, the Universe, the Environment,…
Journal 2001: The 9/11 Attacks is the tenth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Sutton writes of that fatal…
Description Journal 1993 is the ninth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. This journal shows the ups and downs…
Description San Francisco author Joseph Sutton digs deep as to why so many Americans refused to believe that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the…
Description Journal 1990, like all of San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton’s yearly journals, is not only a short history of one year in his life…
Description This book covers the gamut of what goes on in a San Francisco writer’s life and mind. It covers everything about writing, from…
Description Where were you in 2010? What were you doing? What was going on in the country that year? San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton, who’s…
Description This book chronicles the life of a writer, mainly his thoughts on the writing process and self-publishing. It also gives a picture of the…
Description This book is a history of one year in a writer’s life, as well as the country’s life. It’s about what went through Joseph Sutton’s…
This one-year journal is the unfolding story of a writer, walker, husband, father, former teacher, and ex-college football player. It’s the story of…
Description A Beginning Writer’s Journal: 1970-1972 reveals what Joseph Sutton went through to finish the first writing project of his life, a novel about his…
“Joseph Sutton weaves an enchanting and entertaining spell in his selected writings. This is truly Sutton at his best!” —John Rothmann, talk show host KGO-AM…
“Reading Joseph Sutton’s book was very comforting in these strange coronavirus times. Selected writings were taken from eight of his books. The pieces about his…
Oh, it’s so nice to be writing swiftly in my journal again. It’s where I’m free to write whatever comes to mind. There’s no thinking…
“This is a great preview of Joseph Sutton’s repertoire of writing through his 50 year career. I especially enjoyed the part of the book about…
“Anti-intellectualism gives rise to the most extreme, the most morally deplorable, form of sloth. It is to be found in persons for whom the ultimate…
In the Time of My Life: Selected Writings is a collection of Joseph Sutton’s best writing over a period of fifty years. This compilation of stories…
“Enough is Enough.” “Congress: Value kids’ lives more than NRA $.” “The Second Amendment says: A well regulated militia…Well Regulated!” “Ready Aim VOTE”
“If I wasn’t a witness to the events unfolding with Donald Trump as the President of the United States, I would’t believe a word of…
“So true yet so sad about Joseph Sutton’s Trump Times being the reality in America! We Americans are beset with many delusional and irrational people blinded…
Joseph Sutton’s Trump Times is an excellent compilation of the chief features and chief motives that make up Trump’s character. It’s a painful reminder of…
“Sometimes I come across an unexpected gem. My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer is one of them. Joseph Sutton set himself the…
“Joseph Sutton has gone beyond just a criticism of Donald Trump, he has intellectually developed a comprehensive criticism of everything Trump! He has hit all…
“SF Giants Fan’s Journal” is such a cool insider’s view of those three championship years as they were unfolding. I can so relate and am…
“The Bar of Soap is a collection of well-written, poignant stories covering the gamut of human emotions and situations. There are stories of homeless people,…
“As a (not very prolific) writer, I enjoyed the simplicity of the advice in Joseph Sutton’s This Writing Life and the can-do attitude it embodies. There…
“The Life and Death of Abraham Massry and Other Stories is a well-written, engaging account of growing up in mid- to late-20th century U.S.A. Joseph Sutton takes…
“I wished this book could go on and on. Wonderful stories, snippets from a life.” —Delia Moon, Kindle review
“I highly recommend This Writing Life, a gem of a book to anyone who dreams of becoming a writer, who is already a writer, or who…
“I really enjoyed reading This Writing Life. I liked Joseph Sutton’s advice to people who want to be writers that they actually have to sit down and…
This is the third of Joseph Sutton’s books on writing. It’s not your run-of-the-mill writing book. It’s different because Sutton, a writer of almost 50 years,…
Joseph Sutton’s voice comes through on every page in The Bar of Soap: 31 City Stories. I especially loved four stories of his
This collection of city stories covers a wide range of subjects—from homelessness, sex, and sports to school and animal stories.
“I’ve written about the two previous World Series seasons of 2010 and 2012, why not write a third book combining all three championship seasons? And…
I really enjoyed the intertwined tale of the San Francisco Giants’ ‘march to greatness’ seasons and the Joseph/Ray Sutton ‘march to destiny’ life saga.
What caused Bruce Gardner to put a bullet through his temple on the pitching mound at USC with his college diploma in one hand, a…
The cover with Tim Lincecum on the left was about the 2010 World Series season. The cover with Pablo Sandoval in the middle was about…
This final game of the season had a heart-stopping finish to it. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, a man on third,…
I really liked the very personal, intimate, simple details of Joseph Sutton’s life with his son vis-à-vis the San Francisco Giants.
“Joseph Sutton’s San Francisco Giants: A Fan’s Journal is a beautiful love letter to baseball.” —Damon Bruce, radio talk show host, KNBR-AM San Francisco
The life and work of a writer is often a mixture of fact and fiction. Yet for many writers some of the best stories they…
“Joseph Sutton’s “The Life and Death of Abraham Massry and Other Stories” is a one-of-a-kind book. Wow! I wish I had written it. A truly…
This collection of 11 short stories deals with author Joseph Sutton’s Syrian Jewish background.
Joseph Sutton’s Father and Son is a classic of a father-son relationship.
As with all of Joseph Sutton’s writing, he lays his feelings out there, something that not all that many writers do.
Baseball is not just a sport for Joseph Sutton; it’s a way of life. In his new book, “San Francisco Giants: A Fan’s Journal 2010,…
I have never been a person that is particularly interested in sports, but I am deeply interested in the stories that surround them.
Joseph Sutton reading and discussing The Years the Giants Won the Series
Marty Lurie, San Francisco radio sports show host, interviewing author Joseph Sutton about his book, “The YEARS the Giants Won the Series.”
Called a “love letter to baseball” by national radio sports show host Damon Bruce, what inspired you to write about the Giants? Answer: I’m an…
The YEARS the Giants Won the Series
I promised myself I would write an essay each week for a whole year on the writing process. I’m extremely happy that I’ve met my…
In “Week 8 – Why I Write” I wrote down 16 reasons why I write. I’m adding ten more to this week’s entry.
“As a lover of quotations and amateur aphorist, I read Words of Wellness from cover to cover and transcribed many of the wonderful quotations as…
“Joseph Sutton has written a very readable book in Father and Son! His forthright account of the ups-and-downs in a father/son relationship is insightful. I…
“I spent the day reading Joseph Sutton’s new book, Father and Son: Thirty Years of Growing Up Together, and very much enjoyed it. It’s a…
“Joseph Sutton’s Father and Son is an example of how a real man acts and thinks: he is loving, compassionate, honest and tender. Let’s not…