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Paul Gleason

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born

September 14, 1973 in Milwaukee, WI, The United States

website

http://www.ctzine.com

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Entertainment

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B. Wilson, Coltrane, K. Shields, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Kierkegaar...more

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March 2012

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Paul Gleason received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, where he worked as managing editor of the D.H. Lawrence Review. He has published essays on major modernist and postmodernist writers, including Beckett, DeLillo, Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, McElroy, Nabokov, and Vollmann. Understanding T.C. Boyle is his first book.

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Understanding T.C. Boyle

4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009

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Paul Gleason is currently reading:

The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

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Paul Gleason is now friends with Diana
May 30, 2012 09:01am
Paul Gleason made a comment on their review of The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel "It was excellent but had the feel of a creative-writing exercise. The NY Times loved it. "
May 24, 2012 05:19pm · see review
Paul Gleason made a comment on their review of The Art of Fielding "Please do. Thanks. "
May 24, 2012 05:18pm · see review
Paul Gleason is currently reading: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace	My rating:
May 24, 2012 05:15pm
Paul Gleason gave to: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach read in May, 2012	My rating:
Harbach's novel is standard American realism - nothing to write home about. Some of the sentences are extremely pretty - I can HEAR but not FEEL Updike once in a while - but, the problem is, the plot isn't adventurous and has parts that are laughably...more
May 22, 2012 02:40pm · see review
Paul Gleason gave to: The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary Mason (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Paul Gleason marked as to-read: The Dream Songs by John Berryman	My rating:
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Paul Gleason marked as to-read: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry	My rating:
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Paul Gleason marked as to-read: Touching from a distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by Deborah Curtis	My rating:
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Paul Gleason gave to: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe	My rating:
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