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Keir Graff
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I've been invited to take part in this fun event—hope to see you there, Chicago!
Read more of this blog post »Books and Beer: Holiday Shopping at The Hidden Shamrock
Personalized books are the perfect gift and you won't have to fight the Michigan Ave. crowds to get them.
Stop by The Hidden Shamrock(2723 N. Halsted) where some amazing authors, Jamie Freveletti, Keir Graff, Linda Joffe Hull, and Erika O'Rourke, will be sig...
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The Other Felix
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The Price of Liberty
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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My Fellow Americans
— published 2007 — 3 editions |
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One Nation, Under God
— published 2008 — 3 editions |
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Reference Books Bulletin
by Mary Ellen Quinn , Keir Graff (Goodreads Author) — published 2006 |
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Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock
""Indie rock writing is often a strange mixture of elitism and adolescent overstatement"--well said."
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| A wonderfully assured debut. Gus Carpenter is a great character with a history that keeps feeding the story in interesting ways. And while the mystery itself is well plotted and fully satisfying, what really kept me turning pages, I think, was the ri...more | |
“If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.”
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Donald Harington
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| I read this while vacationing on Sanibel Island--guess why I picked it? A ton of fun, with a great, twisty plot and adventure in exotic (for the Chicagoan) locales. | |
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| Still have the same mixed feelings as I did about the first one--but I read it, didn't I? Whatever Larsson's limitations as a stylist, and despite my discomfort with the way the alleged feminist cred is only earned through a lot of careful descriptio...more | |
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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
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“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.”
― Keir Graff
― Keir Graff
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“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people.”
― Christian A. Dumais
― Christian A. Dumais
“We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”
― Gary Shteyngart
― Gary Shteyngart
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― Leo Tolstoy
― Leo Tolstoy
“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
― Thomas McGuane
― Thomas McGuane
