About The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street

Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of oppressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall. (Fomite)

Bobby Johnston is a Los Angeles based film composer and multi-instrumentalist. The Saint I Ain't: Stories from Sycamore Street is his first book.

Colleen Dunn Bates is a publisher, founder, editor, and longtime Pasadena resident who started her career by studying journalism at USC. In 2006, she started Prospect Park Books with the publication of Hometown Pasadena. Hometown Pasadena’s first two editions won acclaim from the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and Westways, as well as nominations and awards from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Bobby Johnston and Colleen Dunn Bates discuss "The Saint I Ain’t"