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- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World [BIO]
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- "One Son Resists"
(Green Lantern Press) - "Clean and Bright"
(Joyland) - "Button"
(Shoots and Vines) - "Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues"
(Shoots and Vines) - "Moonlight"
(decomP) - "Quit These Hills"
(Big Pulp) - "Mercy Day"
(RAGAD) - "Deep in the Northwoods"
(Wheelhouse Magazine) - "Howard Holds Court"
(Birmingham Arts Journal) - "Waiting On a Train"
(RAGAD) - "Power"
(The Clarity of Night) - "Guaranteed"
(Spillway Review) - "Big Question"
(Boston Literary Magazine) - "This Time"
(55 Words) - "Immortality"
(THE2NDHAND) - "Freewheeling"
(Dogmatika) - "The Fixer"
(Gapers Block) - "Ralph's Last Call"
(The Angler) - "Can't Be Happy Today, But Tomorrow"
(Skive Magazine) - "Mighty Casey"
(Zisk) - "Ectoplasm"
(Storyglossia) - "Captions Without Photos"
(Gapers Block) - "Blown"
(Writer's Resource Center) - "Have A Pleasant Commute On Metra"
(This is Grand) - "The Retreat"
(monochrom) - Published Here:
"The Copper Responds"
"One Evening in St. Paul"
"The Lovely Miss Underwood"
"Insomnis"
"We Do Not Approve"
"The Ghoul's Evening Visit"
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Recent Reads
- George Orwell: 1984
Brilliant, compelling, sobering. Orwell’s masterpiece is every bit as relevant today as the day it was written. -
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Truly great narrative on simplicity, self-sufficiency and communing with nature. -
- Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Wonderful narrative of a year spent farming one's own food, eating locally and saving the planet. -
- Muriel Miller Branch: The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People
Informative account of the Gullah culture of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. -
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Compelling discourse on the critical need for freedom and privacy for women fiction writers. -
- Ander Monson: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments
Inventive essays on the writer's intriguing past and mundane commonalities of his everyday life. -
- C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed
Lewis recounts his battle with grief and loss, somehow emerging with hope. -
- Michael Harrington: The Other America: Poverty in the Untied States
Passionate 1962 study on the state of poverty in the richest country in the world. -
- Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
Purported classic with a fascinating premise which doesn't quite deliver. -
- Patrick McCabe: Winterwood
Promising but ultimately disjointed and disappointing story of love, kin, home and myth. -
- William Trevor: Death in Summer
Lovely, understated novel of loneliness and a quest for belonging. -
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Charming collection of Old World tales, of life and piety and death. -
- Budd Schulberg: What Makes Sammy Run?
Devastating portrait of ambition and success in 1930s Hollywood. -
- Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House on the Prairie
Classic account of 19th Century pioneer life. -
- Charles Simmons: Wrinkles
Innovative and fascinating telling of an otherwise ordinary story. -
- Pär Lagerkvist: The Dwarf
Powerful and furious novel of war, religion and humanity. -
- Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts
Odd, bitter, angry - might be a classic, but I'm not quite sure. -
- Stona Fitch: Give + Take
Offbeat caper novel of crime and philanthropy. -
- Erich Origen and Gan Golan: Goodnight Bush
Quietly brutal satirical sendoff to the worst President in U.S. history. -
- Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down
Four strangers consider suicide but together somehow find reason to go on. -
- READINGS 2001-09
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