Buddha Was a Cowboy

A Novel

By: Junior Burke

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Paperback | 27 October 2022

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A progressive, alternative university is targeted for takeover by conservative forces in this satiric tale.

Aaron Motherway is a Hollywood screenwriter who, while recovering from a traffic accident, is tapped to run the arts program at Parami University, located in Pearl Handle, Wyoming.

What Aaron doesn't know is that he is being set up to fail by various duplicitous forces, and he finds himself immersed in a culture war infused with sexual misconduct, embezzlement, political opportunism, and potential mass murder, played out in a climate of comedic dysfunction and absurdity.

His charming and able assistant has his back, fending off a demented poet and venomous colleagues. And he gains the loyalty of some very challenged students-a murderer, a lobster wrangler, and an apostate.

But there are surprises in store for Aaron before the story reaches a dramatic conclusion.

Buddha Was a Cowboy is a metaphor for many of the issues engulfing and dividing America today, and a darkly humorous take on the current cultural landscape.

Industry Reviews

"Author and songwriter Burke's . . . portrayal of academic arts administration is both good-natured and razor-sharp. Enthusiastically recommended for fans of Julie Schumacher (Dear Committee Members; The Shakespeare Requirement), Jane Smiley (Moo), and Tom Perrotta (Tracy Flick Can't Win)." -Booklist

Praise for the author's previous novel, The Cold Last Swim

"Burke's narrative is a whirlwind escape."-PopMatters

"Set in an alternate-timeline version of golden-age Hollywood, it kicks off with James Dean shooting Ronald Reagan during a live TV broadcast in 1954 and gets stranger from there."-Chicago Reader

"Entertaining and surprising all the way to the end."-Alex Cox, director-writer of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, and author of The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald

"Smartly noirish rhythms and a cast of colorful, quirky characters."-Lorraine Devon Wilke, author of The Alchemy of Noise and After the Sucker Punch

"A joy from beginning to end."-June Skinner Sawyers, co-editor, Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

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