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James Goertel
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I like to kick the weekend off early, which means my literature blog for Randy Becker's NexTv Entertainment out of Hollywood, ALL 'LIT' UP, has a brand new installment of the ever-popular LOST WEEKEND 6-PACK. This holiday weekend's is extra special being that I tapped "Spent" author Antonia Crane out of L.A. Antonia 'serves' up her 2 books, 2 movies, and 2 drinks here: http://alllitup-jamesgoer...
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Carry Each His Burden
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Each Year an Anthem
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2012
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With No Need for a Name
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David Abrams is a magician. With one hand, he's teasing, making ruthless fun of the characters in his book. For readers, the types he sends up may be new: the public affairs officer with a perpetual nosebleed, the company commander with stockpiled...
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James Goertel is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure ...He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently. Goertels... " Read more of this review » |
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| This has been a slow read - but a rewarding one thus far. I had always been aware of Hamsun, but had never read him. I love the simple style, but also the fact that it isn't written in an impenetrably antiquated style which sometimes happen with book...more | |
“King was a celebrity in this dump and carried himself accordingly across the sticky floorboards to the bar and a lineup of patrons who seemed to be wearing mug shots for faces.”
― James Goertel, Carry Each His Burden
― James Goertel, Carry Each His Burden
“King was a celebrity in this dump and carried himself accordingly across the sticky floorboards to the bar and a lineup of patrons who seemed to be wearing mug shots for faces.”
― James Goertel, Carry Each His Burden
― James Goertel, Carry Each His Burden
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
― Jim Harrison, The Beast God Forgot to Invent
― Jim Harrison, The Beast God Forgot to Invent
“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”
― James Dickey
― James Dickey
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