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David B. Lentz

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Woburn, Massachusetts, The United States

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http://www.wordsworthgreenwichpress.com

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College. He is a member of the Center for Fiction in New York, the Royal Society of Literature in London, the Academy of American Poets and the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He has published six novels: "For the Beauty of the Earth", "AmericA, Inc.", "Bloomsday", "Bourbon Street", "The Day Trader" and "The Silver King." In addition, he has published two stage plays, "Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy" and "AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play", as well as a volume of poetry, "Old Greenwich Odes." He introduced a new model of critical literary theory for reviewing novels in his book, "Novel Criticism." Selected excerpts from his collection of literary works among his novels,...more

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Launch of "Best of All Possible Worlds: A Novel" by Gary Anderson

Thank you for joining us on the Launch Page for "Best of All Possible Worlds" by critically acclaimed literary novelist, Gary Anderson, who revisits Voltaire's masterpiece, "Candide."

You may preview the Book Trailer here: http://youtu.be/p_848noeBhY

Gary speaks about his new novel on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/0AsPJsJ20N4

The Goodreads Profile of "Best of All Possible Worlds" can be found here:... read more »

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Books by David B. Lentz

Average rating: 4.33 · 30 ratings · 17 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Bloomsday: The Bostoniad 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Novel Criticism: How to Critique Novels Like a Novelist 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	AmericA, Inc.: A Novel in Stream of Voice 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Day Trader: A Novel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Old Greenwich Odes: Collected Verse 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	America, Inc.: The Stage Play 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Bourbon Street: The Dreams of Aeneas in Dixie 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:

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David Lentz liked Ian Graye's review of The Fatal Bodice: " Do It Yourself Erotica Part 2 Rodney finished his coffee, waved goodbye to the waitstaff and ran away from the café without paying. Nobody called out, nobody chased him, nobody phoned the police. He felt so good, so invigorated. He didn’t stop runni... " Read more of this review »
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David Lentz made a comment on his review of The Partisan "Dear Terry, Thank you for your valued advice on reading Ben Cheever, which I gratefully accept. I certainly appreciate, as well, the opportunity to meet...more "
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David Lentz liked Christine Palau's review of The Recognitions: " Like many others, this wasn't the first time I started “TR.” I bought it 10 years ago after reading a Franzen piece: http://adilegian.com/FranzenGaddis.htm What could be so difficult about a book? Back then I couldn't get past page 31. From time to t... " Read more of this review »
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Quotes by David B. Lentz

“Maybe, life is a kind of waking dream.
Maybe, it's a double-dream with a false awakening.
Maybe, the dream only becomes lucid and truly luminous given the fuller perspective of life after one's own wake.
Maybe, the pictures never stop.
Doesn't the existence of dreams and higher consciousness during the years of blackouts of a lifetime, whether longer or shorter, give us a valid premise to hope that another highly spiritual state may await our passing?”
― David B. Lentz, For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel

tags: dream-state , dreams , luminous-dreams

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“God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.”
― David B. Lentz, Bloomsday: The Bostoniad

tags: bloomsday , bostoniad , david-b-lentz , mother-tongue

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“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: agnosticism , dogs , dyslexia , humor , insomnia , pain

139 people liked it

“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never by conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

12 people liked it

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books , infinite-jest

1,838 people liked it

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict , fighting , inspirational , trial

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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

tags: drinking , drunken-behaviour , humor

493 people liked it

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