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Jason Irwin
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in Jamestown
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About this author
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Watering the Dead
— published 2008 |
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Some Days It's A Love Story
— published 2005 |
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American Society: What Poets See
by David Chorlton , Robert S. King , Jason Irwin (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology
by Renee Alberts (Goodreads Author) , Connie Amoroso , Kristofer Collins (Goodreads Author) — 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
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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)
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Transparency of Windows, Days Like Dead Skin, & Stations of the Cross
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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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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...
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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...
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“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
― Henry Miller
― Henry Miller
“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.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”
― Elie Wiesel
― 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
― Peter Maurin
