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Evan Mandery
Goodreads author profile
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born
June 11, 1967
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
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Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Nelson Burton Jr.
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Q: A Novel
   3.26 avg rating — 286 ratings
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2011
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First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
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2010
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Dreaming of Gwen Stefani
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2007
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The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton, And The Race To Be Mayor Of New York City
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1999
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Eyes On City Hall: A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare
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2001
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Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Explanation
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2004
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"Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well."
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In Q, Mandery writes with equal measures of wit, irony, and poignancy--all tinged with a certain existential angst and philosophical reflection--that is characteristic of his other novels
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"Q" is really funny. And smart.
The author made a great choice, because the best way to avoid making the reader think or question about the paradoxes and impossibilities of time travel, is with humor. It doesn't matter (that much) the accuracy of... " Read more of this review » |
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"it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them."
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I found this book on the librarians recommended table at the central branch of my my local library system. I have picked many books from this selection and have most often found nothing to my liking, not to say there are not probably many good boo...
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“I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.”
― Evan Mandery, Q: A Novel
― Evan Mandery, Q: A Novel
“I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Time Travel: June/July 2012: Book Club Nominations | 12 | 35 | 11 hours, 57 min ago |
“I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.”
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― Evan Mandery, First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
Evan Mandery Q&A
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A question an answer session of how to be funny in the face of overwhelming evidence of the pointlessness of everything.
