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Ben Granby gained some notoriety in the late 1990's
for managing a troupe of guerilla theater performers
and running for county coroner in Madison, Wisconsin.
He received 33% of the vote on a platform against
zombification. While intermittently working as a
banquet waiter in the midwest, he blew his
savings on unusual trips overseas, posturing himself
as a war journalist with fake credentials. He has
traveled through the Balkans, Iraq, Colombia, Lebanon,
the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Syria.
He has also spent time with Albanian guerillas in
Macedonia, American soldiers in Iraq and Palestinian
militias.
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Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel
An Account of Life in Palestine with Descriptions of People, Places and Incidents
by Ben Granby
46 black & white photos
isbn: 1891053515
design by Karen Ocker
217 pages, softcover, nonfiction
$12.95
Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, backroads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 2002. His motivation? To throw himself headlong into other people's problems.
"Throughout the book, shades of classic Granby -- a dark sense of humor, a burning irritation with injustice, a willingness to side with unpopular and sometimes downright unpleasant protaganists on the losing side of a hard struggle -- shine through."
--James Norton, Flak Magazine
"Ben Granby presents a penetrating look at life in the Palestinian territories. Through his eyes we encounter Palestinians as people -- their dreams and their anguish. We see the resilience of people living under trying circumstances and their love for a land called Palestine."
--Ambassador Edward Gnehm,
The George Washington University
"Ben's writing is disarming and humanistic. He avoids the grating activisty jargon that tends to drive a reader away and just describes what he sees around him."
--this much i can say is true
Listen to Ben Granby on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of Common Folk Illustrated Journal, Best of Temp Slave, For Here or To Go, Living Lost, Ivan Petrov, From Campus to Combat, New Orleans City Guide, Guinea Pig Zero, Little Tenement on the Volga, Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, Voice of Leningrad and What the Hell Am I Doing Here?
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