Mike Palecek: 15 books

The field notes of Mike Palecek from years of walking in the woods of Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota in search of Bigfoot.

Guests of the Nation pulls no punches... . “I loved it! I think GOTN is a timely published 9/11 story, a quick and easy read for our too busy lives, and one that just might sink into the American people’s consciousness, finally.  I wish it could be placed for sale on every store’s ‘impulse’...

Mike Palecek's novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient? How did this incident affect these three when they grew up? Did they ever meet another alien? To find out, read Speak English.

Where we find that Robert S. Thompson has sat on his bench on main street and written a letter to the editor talking about war and about how a local boy has died for mostly nothing. We find Nona The Waitress musing about the lack of democracy in the good ol' USA, and Tommy on his bike remembering his brother, who they say died for freedom, but Tommy doesn't believe that, not at all.

Again we join the adventures of Tommy, Nona The Waitress and Robert S. Thompson in The Great American Westerly Midwest. This time we follow Tommy around town as he and his friend, Johnny, try to solve the great mysteries of religion; whether God exists, and if so, where is He? In the park? In the...

Again we join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona The Waitress, in The Midwest, the Westerly Midwest, of America — as they follow The Swarm on their little bicycles zooming around town, and the activities of Moon Walking, the head librarian, as she fights the city fathers, who have demanded that everyone put up a fence in town, to keep everyone safe, from all sorts of terrible dangers.

Join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona the waitress as they work to solve the mystery of the kidnapping of baby Sweat Sox and watch their little town try to fight global warming by making everyone wear sweatpants, while standing atop the street corner bench to watch the flood, while the old people toughs fight it out in the parking lot.

The fall is a beautiful time of year. Some say, the best. For some it's time to die, at the hands of dumb guys out in the woods. For some, killing is how they have a good time, "enjoy the outdoors." Robert S. Thompson heard one time about some hunters getting killed by another hunter and one hunter going to jail. Well, that's a good start, says Robert.

Mike Palecek's new novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient? How did this incident affect these three when they grew up? Did they ever meet another alien? To find out, read Speak English.

A modern retelling of 1984, set not in some distant future but rather as a reinterpretation of our current moment. It is as if the magic x-ray glasses advertised in the back of the comic book actually worked, but when we put on Mike's x-ray glasses, instead of seeing through ladies underwear, we are...

Bigfoot is real. But the text in the 10,000 sophomore history textbooks at the bottom of 10,000 lockers is based in popular myth. That’s the truth. To find the truth about America, about 9/11, the Boston bombing, Sandy Hook, you need to go Looking For Bigfoot.

The American Vision. The American Journey. Land of Liberty. The Commies are Coming. The Commies are Coming! The Criminals Are Coming! The Terrorists Are Coming! Big Bees! It’s that time of year again. Time for the release of the new sophomore textbook,                   American...

A Liberal revolution is about to begin... In Iowa where corn grows tall and families gather for apple pie, a murmur of dissent echoes across Town Square. Plans to build a federal prison on Liberal soil divide a town and family once united. Newspaper editor Tom Blue stands at the forefront of...

The Battle of Bumfuck, Iowa is over. The paper mache lions’ heads and farm house are smoking. The holsteins are lying dead and the gold finches hum "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill ..." Lara, Kaitylyn and Jim have been captured and put in prison, and now Korey, trying to get them out, is also...