GLENN ROCKOWITZ, RODEO IN JOLIET

Rodeo in Joliet is a psychological memoir of Glenn Rockowitz’s ongoing struggle with cancer that offers a vivid glimpse into the landscape of a mind when it is faced with the constant threat of death. It is an emotional journey that is by turns heartbreaking, painfully funny, misanthropic, loving, and ultimately heroic.

Glenn Rockowitz is a comedian, filmmaker, and advertising copywriter. He is the founder of Keep Your Receipt, a wildly irreverent line of greeting cards sold nationwide. The profits fund The Best Medicine, a nonprofit that provides comedy performances for AIDS and cancer patients in the last weeks of their lives.

You must, must, must read his guest post at the Village Books Blog.