Pete Lit

Writings

• "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"
  Various Microfiction

Writing in Progress

• Wheatyard


• "Sweetheart Blues"


• "Of Quin and Trees"

Reading

• Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim [BIO]

Listening

• Silkworm: "Couldn't You Wait?" [BIO]

More Me

• Self-Deprecating Bio
• Photo Gallery
• Old Home Page
• Email Me: pete_anderson [at] comcast [dot] net

My Women

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• Booga J Reads
• Stamping Online
• Homeschooling Maddie

Friendly Links

• Brown Bear Software
• Gapers Block
• Golden Rule Jones
• Bookslut
• Maud Newton
• Beatrice
• Return of the Reluctant
• Bookninja
• The Millions
• The Angler
• Books for Breakfast
• Chicago: Howtown on the Make
• Murmurings to the Masses
• Southport Squealer
• This Is Grand
• Blood and Thunder!
• bighappyfunhouse.com
• Fading Ad Campaign
• Kirby Gann

Distant Worthies

• Last Plane to Jakarta
• Ben Katchor: Hotel & Farm
• The Onion
• Salon.com
• Center for American Progress
• MoveOn
• Utne
• The Nation
• AlterNet
• TomPaine.com
• NewPages
• Tom Tomorrow - This Modern World
• Ted Rall - Political Cartoon

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Archives by Category

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• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007

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Recent Reads

• Mark Sarvas: Harry, Revised
  Good debut novel about grief, starting over and Dumas.
  

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• Kent Haruf: Plainsong
  Lovely, warm novel of small-town life.
  

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• Paul Fattaruso: Bicycle
  Charming little collection of micro-fictions about, yes, bicycles.
  

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• Aleksandar Hemon: The Lazarus Project
  Magnificent novel of the past and present, longing and belonging.
  

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• Mark Russell: The Superman Stories
  Funny and clever stories about the everyday life of the Man of Steel.
  

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• Hjalmar Söderberg: Doctor Glas
  Masterful novel of longing, fateful decisions and death.
  

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• Nelson Algren: Never Come Morning
  Gripping early novel from the master.
  

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• Billy Lombardo: The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories
  Good collection of coming-of-age stories from Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.
  

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• Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman
  Less than satisfying comic tale of life, death and bicycles.
  

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• John McGahern: The Barracks
  Sensitive, emotionally gripping Irish novel of a distant husband and wife.
  

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• Al Burian:Burn Collector: issues one through nine
  Solid collection of the first nine issues of the great zine.
  

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• Jim Thompson: The Kill-Off
  A uniquely told twist on the conventions of crime fiction by one of the giants of the art.
  

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• Chris Abani: Song For Night
  Powerful and often harrowing novella of war and remembrance.
  

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• E.M. Forster: Howards End
  Great novel about the English social classes, how they interact and what responsibilities they have to each other.
  

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• Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
  Gripping, thoroughly researched account of murder and the dark side of religious faith.
  

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• Calvin Trillin: Travels With Alice
  Warm collection of anecdotes of Trillin's family travels in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
  

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• Verlyn Klinkenborg: The Last Fine Time
  Uneven account of a working-class bar in Buffalo, just after WWII. Has its moments, just not enough of them.
  

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• Rick Kogan: A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream
  Lovely memoir of Chicago's legendary Billy Goat Tavern, by one of its loyal denizens.
  

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• George W.S. Trow: Within the Context of No Context
  Rambling, muddled, murky essay that's likely not worth your time.
  

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• Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
  Charming collection of essays from the late great novelist.
  

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• Richard Warch and Jonathan Fanton (editors): John Brown: Great Lives Observed
  Balanced, non-partisan collection of writings on the legendary abolitionist.
  

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• Ted McClelland: Horseplayers: Life at the Track
  Lively account of a year spent wagering - and mostly losing - at Chicago's thoroughbred racetracks.
  

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• J. Matthew Smith: Jailed by My Father
  Warmly-told collection of autobiographical essays.
  

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• Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
  Dark, bitter, sometimes bitingly funny tale of Hollywood's woeful underclass.
  

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• Ben Tanzer: Lucky Man
  Daring, innovative and emotionally moving debut novel about four troubled friends.
  

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• William Trevor: The Hilll Bachelors
  Yet another excellent collection of Irish short stories from the master.
  

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• Charles D'Ambrosio: The Point
  Solid story collection from the renowned writer, with the tighter pieces being the best of the lot.
  

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• Steven J. McDermott: Winter of Different Directions
  Smart collection of short stories about lost souls and uncertain futures.
  

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• James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
  Sharp, riveting piece of classic noir. The main characters are doomed, just as they should be.
  

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• Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology
  Fascinating poetic exploration of small-town America - but much too long and often repetitive.
  

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• Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
  Brilliantly insightful satire of an upstanding citizen and the unsettling discontents stirring within him.
  

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• Knut Hamsun: Hunger
  Simply put, one of the greatest novels ever written, and the finest I've ever had the pleasure to read.
  

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
  Well written but (sorry) less than classic novel of Jazz Age New York.
  

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• Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
  Wonderful story of a stubborn employee and an excessively patient boss in mid-19th Century Manhattan.
  

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• Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
  Marvelous, wide-ranging, emotionally moving cycle of stories about the lonely and seeking inhabitants of a small Midwestern town.
  

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• Joe Pernice: Meat Is Murder
  Slow-starting but good-finishing tale of a Smiths record on one youngster's life.
  

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• Cormac McCarthy: The Road
  Powerful novel of father and son wandering through a post-apocalypse wasteland.
  

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• Ian McEwan: Atonement
  Magnificent, gripping and emotionally moving saga of small actions and their enormous repercussions.
  

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• READINGS 2001-08
  

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