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Bob Fingerman
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Michele and I did a reading (I'd say performance, but that seems a little grandiose) of a small section of FROM THE ASHES at Brooklyn's Book Court, a lovely independent bookshop.
You can't see it here, but she wore her TRASH shirt, proving I didn't make it up.
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Pariah
   3.59 avg rating — 357 ratings
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2010
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Bottomfeeder
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2006
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Beg the Question
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2005
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Recess Pieces
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2006
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Minimum Wage Book One
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1997
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From the Ashes
by Bob Fingerman (Goodreads Author), Marc Maron 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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2010
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Minimum Wage
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1998
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Winter's Dregs and Other Stories
by Bob Fingerman (Goodreads Author), Kelley Jones 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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2005
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You Deserved It
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2005
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Connective Tissue
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2009
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"I have yet to really immerse myself in Rosenkranz's no-doubt thorough text (what I've read so far is his usual excellent work), but I am delighted that largely unsung underground comix creator Rand Homes has finally merited a monograph. This thick bo...more
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For some reason I *want* to only give this book three stars but that would be a lie; I didn't just "like it", I actually "REALLY liked it".
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That's not a very poetic title, I know. But neither is the tone of Bottomfeeder - a novel that lingers refreshingly with me right now writing these words. Having just completed it, the positive effect of the book is instantaneous: with this paragr...
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God bless you, Bob Fingerman, in this era of pastiches and rom-zom-coms for bringing the good old postapocalypse back to zombie fiction. Granted, there's not a lot of actual apocalypse here - things have seriously gone to shit before the narrativ...
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| The all-time greatest comic strip about what it is to be a child, ever. Insightful, hilarious, poignant and dripping truth from every panel, "Nuts" is, was and ever will be in my pantheon of most life-altering reads. When first exposed to it back in...more | |
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| Bee has a great gift as a performer and a writer. This collection of autobiographical snapshots of her life from childhood on is smart and snappy from start to finish. Some truly wince-inducing material, all told with wit, humility and verve. More pl...more | |
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“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
― Bertrand Russell
― Bertrand Russell
“There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.”
― Marc Maron
― Marc Maron
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
― Walt Kelly
― Walt Kelly
“God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.'
'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.”
― Philip K. Dick, Our Friends from Frolix 8
'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.”
― Philip K. Dick, Our Friends from Frolix 8
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