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Mickey Hess
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When I was a sophomore in college, I wrote and self-published a novel, one copy at a time. I printed all my rejection letters from publishers on the back cover. I used a hot-glue gun to bind each copy by hand on the floor of my crappy apartment. It should be apparent that I had no idea what I was doing. I sat in my living room with my burned fingers and a small stack of my books and thought,...
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Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory
   3.82 avg rating — 49 ratings
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2003
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Where Handstands Surprise Us: The Best of the Bean Street Reading Series
by Mickey Hess (Goodreads Author) , Mike Smith 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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2004
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The Nostalgia Echo
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Nobody Likes a Smartass
by Mickey Hess (Goodreads Author), James Franco  4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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2010
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El Cumpleanos de Paco
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2010
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The Novelist & the Rapper
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2012
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Is Hip Hop Dead?: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music
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2007
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Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide 2 Volume Set
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2009
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Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide: Volume 2: The Midwest, the
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Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide: Volume 1: East Coast and West Coast
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Good! Best of luck with the July tour. I'd like to make it to a show, but I doubt I'll be able to due to my summer class, which meets every day during the first half of July.
