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Ron D. Smith
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December 2011
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The Night Budda Got Deep in It
— published 2012 |
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The Savior of Turk
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro
— published 2012 |
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| I’ve waited in line for tickets only once—for a Steve Martin performance eons ago in college. The wait was four hours, which also seemed like eons, but I wanted front row tickets. I loved Steve Martin, but I never expected the same guy who wore rabbi...more | |
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| Gay's seminal novel isn't quite as good as his later work, but that's like saying AS I LAY DYING isn't quite as polished as LIGHT IN AUGUST. The Long Home is still William Gay being William Gay, with the requisite Southern Gothic flavor, damaged hero...more | |
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| Like any baseball fan, I knew Buck O'Neil as a great baseball ambassador, and the man who did the most to keep the memory of the Negro Leagues alive. Until I read Joe Posnanski's wonderful book, however, I didn't know what an impact Buck had on some...more | |
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“He must have started putting away a little money right after he cleaned up his first projectile vomit. It didn’t matter that he was only making a few dollars a day. Here’s the thing you have to understand about most immigrants. They’re experts at stashing cash in their Serta Sleepers. You pay a dude from Ghana or Guatemala a buck and he’ll sock away 90 cents of it. Pretty soon he’s made a down payment on a nice three-bedroom ranch in the burbs just by busing tables during the day and delivering pizza at night. Meanwhile, the rest of us are bitching because our six-figure incomes won’t cover the mortgage on the McMansion.”
― Ron D. Smith, The Savior of Turk
― Ron D. Smith, The Savior of Turk
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
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