Salon.com > Mike Daily http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mike Daily http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/mikedaily/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/mikedaily/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/mikedaily Mike Daily's novel "Valley" (Bend Press) is a fictionalized chunk of Daily's life in the frankly ordinary San Fernando valley -- a thinly-veiled autobiography, one that was honestly recorded on hours of micro-cassettes and in miles of chaotic scribblings throughout a dozen spiral notebooks, before reaching the end-result as a perfect-bound, 224 page book.

"Valley" is a humorous narrative that darts in and out of literary styles following main character, writer/student, Mick O'Grady, as he ambles through his days in a sort of pot haze attempting to make sense of the numerous mysteries unraveling before him. With "Valley" former BMX-journalist Daily has switched from chronicling the world of BMX, to creating a practically itemized account of everything around him, the mundane included.

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