a HISTORY OF HEARTACHE: STORIES
"Patrick Strickland writes with economy, muscle, and beauty, and these stories can both break and warm your heart at the same time. These are outcasts, searchers, lovers, sinners, all grasping to find a place in the sometimes hostile and often lonely world. A History of Heartache is a collection of stories you do not want to miss." — Michael Farris Smith, author of Desperation Road and Lay Your Armor Down
“Easily the best collection of short fiction I've read in years, A History of Heartache not only proves Strickland's skill as a reporter is matched only by his gift as a storyteller — it marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction." — Marya Hornbacher, New York Times-bestselling author of Wasted, Madness, and The Center of Winter
“Meet Strickland’s hard-boiled, broken, and downtrodden — North America’s lost. Read their stories of motel graveyard shifts, single parenting, and drinking. Just know your heart will break.” — Adrianne Kalfopoulou, author of Broken Greek, A History of Too Much, and The Re in Refuge
“Strickland laces his hardscrabble scenes with lyricism … In each piece, grief underscores the characters’ recklessness, imbuing the collection with an unsentimental but tender emotional register. Strickland’s humane depictions of people living on the margins acknowledge the forces that shape them. — Publishers Weekly
“Bleak but clear-eyed, abrasive but thoughtful, these stories show a shadow world existing in the corners of our current moment.” - Southern Review of Books
“Peels back the mask of a worn-out suburbia to reveal stark human tragedy.” - Dallas Morning News
“A poignant and often wicked series of stories.” - Dallas Observer
“Through his vivid, voice-driven prose, Strickland mingles societal crises and systemic obstacles with his characters’ attempts at personal survival or redemption.” - Chapter 16
“Chronicles the struggles of working-class characters leading hard-scrabble lives.” - Houston Chronicle
“Patrick Strickland … is a fiction writer who is here to stay.” - Book Public
You Can Kill Each other after I leave: REFUGEES, FASCISM, AND BLOODSHED IN GREECE
“Dives deep into the world of Greece's far right and monitors the country's political struggle over the treatment of refugees.” — New York Times
“Ten years of reporting have produced a disturbing, keenly observed account of how Golden Dawn evolved from a fringe fascist outfit into the country's third largest political power.” — The New Internationalist
"Star investigative journalist and chronicler Patrick Strickland goes deep into today's Greece and finds an ugly core, an emboldened fascism that provides inspiration to Europe's anti-refugee alliances. This book is a warning that we'd be foolish to ignore." — Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory
“This is one of the best books written about our current political crisis, and it never loses sight of the real struggle for justice happening on the border and in the streets." — Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It
“Veteran journalist Patrick Strickland provides a rigorous, thrillingly written look at how Greece became Europe’s ground zero for resurgent fascism—and at the activists fighting back.” — Molly Crabapple, author of Here Where We Live Is Our Country
“A fine example of good journalism, highlighting those who resisted the rise of the far right.” — Incubator for Media Education and Development
“An intimate analysis of the evolving political landscape and humanitarian issues in Greece and Europe.” - Dallas Observer
THE MARAUDERS: STANDING UP TO VIGILANTES IN THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
“The Marauders is a blistering book, a hard-ass stare into the voracious mouth of the US-Mexico border. Patrick Strickland has done a fine piece of reporting from places we don’t dare to tread.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter
“Strickland crosses the desert of simplistic, hopeless border narratives and finds an oasis: communities resistant to the disease of militant right-wing extremism ravaging the country. An important antidote to the cartoonish border stories that make ‘news.’” — Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
“This vivid, character-driven report spotlights one Arizona town’s efforts to fight back against ‘a flood of extremely dangerous, virulently racist, and heavily armed outsiders’ who have flocked to the US border with Mexico in recent years . . . A fascinating and often harrowing portrait of a community in the crosshairs.” — Publishers Weekly
“A vital reminder that decency . . . has not been entirely obliterated by paranoia-induced, racist rage. Amazingly, The Marauders manages to be appalling and inspiring at the same time.” — Jeff Guinn, author of The Last Gunfight
“Revealing and worthy reading for anyone with an interest in border and immigration issues.” — Kirkus Reviews
“If you’re up for a shocking portrayal of U.S. nativism well told, take on The Marauders. But be prepared for some rude awakenings.” — Washington Review of Books
aLERTA! ALERTA! SNAPSHOTS OF EUROPE’S ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE
“Patrick Strickland is an incisive and relentless journalist who has spent years immersed in the global currents of rebellion, and in Alerta! Alerta! he provides a clear eyed portrait of Europe's anti-fascist resistance that is utterly essential in the era of Trump.”— Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood
“As a fascist darkness descends over Europe, Patrick Strickland uncovers the bars, squats, fight clubs, and street corners where resistance burns brightest. Each page of his journey breathes with the tumultuous struggles of brave anti-fascists who risk imprisonment, assault, and even death to take a stand. Though struggles differ from Germany to Greece, from Slovakia to Italy, all anti-fascists agree that ‘never again’ means sounding the alarm of anti-fascism before it's too late — Alerta! Alerta!"— Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
“As much a warning as it is a report, Patrick Strickland’s Alerta! Alerta! is recommended reading for all those who understand that fascists, white supremacists and Nazis need to be actively opposed, not ignored. In fact, it might be even more important that it is read by those who think Nazis should be ignored.”— Ron Jacobs, author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies