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Jason Irwin

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in Jamestown
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June 2007

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Average rating: 4.76 · 21 ratings · 10 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Watering the Dead
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008
Some Days It's A Love Story
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005
American Society: What Poet...
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4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010

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Summer Scribes Reading Series
July 28, 2013 07:00PM
12 peers theater @ Modern Formations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue , Pittsburgh, PA, US

http://12peerstheater.org/
INHERITANCE is the story of Vinnie Nocito—a paralyzed Vietnam vet—and his younge...more


Book Review, 2 short stories, & 5 poems (Literature & Fiction)
3 chapters   —   updated Jul 30, 2009 06:19am
Description: Transparency of Windows, Days Like Dead Skin, & Stations of the Cross

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date: July 28, 2013 07:00PM
location: 12 peers theater @ Modern Formations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue , Pittsburgh, PA, The United States
description: INHERITANCE is the story of Vinnie Nocito—a paralyzed Vietnam vet—and his younger brother Peter, a crack addict who spends his days looking for drug money and dreaming about the past. Burdened by abusive childhoods and broken dreams, the brothers share what seems to be an unbreakable bond. But Peter’s insatiable drug habit leads to a final, harrowing act of violence.
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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stealing God's Thunder by Philip Dray
Jason rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanaugh
Collected Poems
by Patrick Kavanaugh
read in June, 2013
Kavanagh's early poems, up until and through "The Great Hunger" were wonderful. The later ones, after as he put it he "lost his messianic impulse" did not seem as powerful or immediate.
Jason rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
reading again!

read 3 of the four stories.


Rereading "The Kreutzer Sonata" after seeing the play by Nancy Harris on 6/7
Jason is now a fan of M.J. Fievre
Jason rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
read in June, 2013
rereading a favorite.
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
" Strangely compulsive an experience it was to read so many Houllebecq novels one after another within a month. I hardly know what drew me along. His bracing pessimism perhaps. Or his fearlessness in saying what is often thought but seldom expressed... " Read more of this review »
Jason and 1 other person liked Michael's review of The Possibility of an Island:
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
" It's easy to revile Houellebecq, and I don't think I'd recommend this book to anyone who's not in the market for a depressing trip, without any hopeful rays of sunshine, but that being said, I'm glad I've read it, and I think I'll read more of his... " Read more of this review »
More of Jason's books…
Henry David Thoreau
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Henry Miller
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
Henry Miller

Martin Luther King Jr.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

Elie Wiesel
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
Elie Wiesel

“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”
Peter Maurin




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