Anatolian Days & Nights

By Angie Brenner and Joy E. Stocke

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About Anatolian Days and Nights
"By the time the wise woman has found a bridge, the crazy woman has crossed the water."
Turkish Proverb
In our fast-paced cultural journey, we embark on an extraordinary friendship and take to the Turkish road less traveled. From vibrant Istanbul to the heart of Mesopotamia, we demystify stereotypes and bring secular, Muslim Turkey into focus. Along the way, we share our thoughts and feelings about love, marriage, foreign men, sex, Muslim taboos, and Western and Eastern prejudice, in the context of the rich, often painful, history of secular Muslim Turkey, one of the world’s most fascinating and misunderstood countries. 

 

Angie, a single writer and former travel bookstore owner; and Joy, wife, mother and writer, take  readers on an unforgettable journey of discovery, dispelling the myth that adventure travel is only for the young. Using intuition, experience, and a bit of serendipity, we find excitement, friendship, and love in the most unlikely places.

 

While our journeys began in a small village on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, we have found that publishing our memoir is equal to any challenge encountered on the backroads of Turkey.  Whether you are a traveler, reader, writer, or all of these, come join us on our journey.

Joy E. Stocke and Angie Brenner at Hasankeyf in southern Turkey on the Tigris River

Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor in Chief of the online magazine, Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey, as well as religion, ancient and modern. She is the author of a bi-lingual book of poems, Cave of the Bear, translated into Greek by Lili Bita; and a novel, Ugly Cookies, co-written with Fran Metzman.


She is author of the memoir Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses and Saints, co-written with Angie Brenner will be published in March 2012 by Wild River Books. Her essay - Turkish American Food - will appear in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.


An experienced editor, Stocke works with many of the writers who appear in the pages of Wild River Review, as well as clients from around the world. She has interviewed Nobel Prizewinners Orhan Pamuk and Muhammud Yunus, Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Muldoon, Roshi Joan Halifax, anthropologist and expert on end of life care; Ivonne Baki, President of the Andean Parliament; and Templeton Prizewinner Freeman Dyson among others. She is currently working with Harriet Mayor Fulbright, widow of Senator J. William Fulbright and President of Harriet Fulbright College, on Mrs. Fulbright's memoir.


She is on the board of the Princeton Middle East Society , and a member of the Turkish Women's International Network.


A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. In 2009, she became a Lindisfarne Fellow.


EMAIL: anatoliandaysandnights@gmail.com
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/joy.stocke
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Angie Brenner is West Coast Editor for the online magazine, Wild River Review.  Her many interviews include Nobel Prizewinners Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, artist James Hubbell, journalist Stephen Kinzer, and writers Pico Iyer and Elif Shafk.


Brenner has traveled extensively through Turkey, Eucador, Africa, and Vietnam bringing back hair-raising and humorous stories. In addition, she facilitates travel literature reading groups and presentations at bookstores and libraries in Southern California and Oregon.

 

In 1997 she closed her own travel bookstore to write and travel; and teaches yoga near her home in Julian, California. She is author of the travel memoir, Anatolian Days & Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints, co-written with Joy E. Stocke


EMAIL: anatoliandaysandnights@gmail.com
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/angie.brenner