Books by Kenny Bass
If Not for the Blast is a deliberately compressed memoir; A Marine’s Disposable War is an artist photobook drawn from the Iraq archive; and Atlas & Friends is a children’s story about working dogs, disability, empathy, and respect.
All three remain unpublished. No publication date has been announced.
The mercifully short memoir
This is not simply a compressed memoir. It is a memoir about compression.
War, invisible injury, identity, Atlas, fatherhood, service, and the unexpected life built from circumstances Kenny never would have chosen.
Manuscript complete
Artist photobook
Digital edition complete; awaiting printing funds
Fifteen photographs from one disposable camera Kenny carried as a young Marine infantryman in Iraq in 2003. The sequence became a completed digital book more than two decades later.
The 11 × 8.5-inch landscape hardcover awaits funding for a physical proof, printing and self-publication. No publication or shipping date is set.
A children’s book
Helping children understand working dogs—and the people beside them.
A warm school-assembly story about service dogs, guide dogs, therapy dogs, working K-9s, emotional-support animals, and pets—built around empathy, respect, and clear distinctions.
In development
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