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David David Katzman
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Good news: I was fortunate to receive a nice review from Midwest Book Review this week—a not-for-profit website of unpaid reviewers who focus on small press books. They’ve been around for about 11 years and seem to have a particularly strong relationship with acquisition librarians. Here are the highlights: [When] we see something unusual, we rarely expect it to be the tip of the iceberg. A Great...read more »
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Death by Zamboni   3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Greater Monster 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Author appearance, February 29, 2012 06:00PM — 341 people invited
After-Words Bookstore, 23 E. Illinois St. , Chicago, IL, US
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Author appearance, February 29, 2012 06:00PM — 341 people invited
After-Words Bookstore, 23 E. Illinois St. , Chicago, IL, US
https://www.facebook.com/events/249138688501304/
A lovely bookstore in downtown Chicago has invited me to read from A Greater Mon...more
Music Review: Shpongle (Arts & Photography)
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Live concert: 5/14/11, Congress Theater in Chicago
The Scallion (Humor)
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My homage to (and audition for) The Onion
What I learned in Canadia (and Portland), eh? (Travel)
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a brief summary of what i learned in Canada (and Portland.) Eh.
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This book masquerades as a psychedelic romp that upstages Hunter S. Thompson crossed with William S. Burroughs. It masquerades as one, but is not limited to that realm.
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I found Cloud Atlas to be less a novel than a series of short stories. And on top of that, I found the quality of the stories varied wildly. Furthermore, the differences in style and tone of the various stories jarred me.
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1/27/12 - Another lovely review, this one from from Reader Views critic Paige Lovitt. Full review is here. Last paragraph reads: Intelligently written and displayed, A Greater Monster is truly like no book I have ever read before. While visions of Al...more |
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A GREATER MONSTER redefines the concept of the graphic prose novel.
This story is a psychedelic journey with no limitations and infinite possibilities. David is a master of words and uses them not only to tell his story but to illustrate it... " Read more of this review » |
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What a long stange trip it's been...
To me, this one was more than just a book, it was an intense experience. This one read like prose poetry at it's finest. Full of word play, font experimentation,and even a few elements of bizarro thrown i... " Read more of this review » |
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Lonely Werewolf Girl (Kalix MacRinnalch, #1)
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Beautiful anorexic depressed teenage runaway werewolf drug addict self-cutter. Do you even need a verb to sell a concept like that?
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| Jen Knox has written a short story collection that unveils the souls of its characters through simple vignettes and everyday experiences. She finds a kind of painful poetry in the mundane choices we make, or the paths we find ourselves stumbling down...more | |
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Fever Chart
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| I have a love-hate relationship with this book. At first, it charmed the pants off me. Then I experienced flashes of intense frustration and irritation with the main character. By the end, I found it so outlandish that I couldn’t decide if it was a c...more | |
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Kraken
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The most fun you can have with a giant squid this side of Japanese octopus porn. I take that back. It’s the most fun no matter which side of octopus porn you’re on.
This is the first China Miéville work I’ve read so I wasn’t tainted by any of his pr...more |
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“It makes sense that your response to a bad break-up line would be to set someone on fire," I responded. "Fire is magical to us because it embodies the passage of time. We can never grasp time because it is invisible, unreachable and continually slipping from our grasp. Do we live in the present? How can we? The present is infinitesimally small. It can't contain human action. We teeter on the brink between our assumed future...where we will be in moments to come...and our memory of the past...where we think we just were. The present doesn't exist in a comprehensible way. Similarly, fire is something we can neither grasp nor touch, yet it has a clear effect...the decay and collapse of life, the acceleration of entropy. Thus when we stand mesmerized by fire, we are actually mesmerized by our own mortality.”
― David David Katzman
― David David Katzman
“My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.”
― David David Katzman
― David David Katzman
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Happy Holidays David! If you have a chance you should youtube "Fruitcake" by The Superions. It's bizarre and hilarious so I think you'll like it. Destination Christmas is the album name and I'll be listening to this throughout the weekend :) CHEERS to you and yours!
That's great! I tried to browbeat some of my arts & letters friends into attending, but I think they were having deadline panic.
I'm so excited that your kickstarter project is get such recognition! I cannot wait to read A GREATER MONSTER and see what the cover art will look like! I feel like a kid in a candy store - just wanted to let you know that :)
Take a look at Charlie Courtland's blog: Bitsy Bling Books: http://bitsybling.blogspot.com/2011/07/t...My book was featured along with a brief interview.
it ain't easy!man, goodreads needs to work on their commenting interface... SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A LETTER!
i certainly have read them! what do you take me for, a cretin??? i didn't like them as much as the other two though... for some reason i like o'brien more when he's being more realistic, which i know is odd, given my usual taste... :)
hi david! it's not very often i meet someone who likes alfred bester AND jeanette winterson!! pretty cool.
Thanks for the friendship-Your review of iZombie really makes me want to read it-I not a zombie person.
let me know what you find out because I know many people who pre-ordered through there, and I worry now why it hasn't come...
what medium did you order it through? Barnes and Noble is usually faster than Amazon. I'm surprised it hasn't come yet.
don't know how to look just at your reviews, all the books I click on under your ratings don't have reviews
by the way, am I the only one totally not interested in the Justin Beiber (or however it's spelled) movie?
I accidentally clicked "flag" when I meant to hit "mark as unread."Whoops! I hope the spam police don't come parading through town.
just tell them it's my fault.
-L
oh my dear, I have been to hell and back. no that's melodramatic. I will get to your emails soon, been off the internet grid for over a week. don't think I've forgotten you! cause that would suck. cause I haven't!
-L
oh darling, what would the world do without your long detailed messages? Give me time, I'll get to them! Some of us don't type as fast...
: )
-L
so I'm already in the process of ordering/buying yours so....
Hey, I gotta get to work. But take care, and I'll get to that email soon.
-L
did I ever tell you that in your profile pic, you look like something out of the american psycho movie?
haha ok I get it So what happened was that I tried to change it, so I hit delete, but then every time I try to upload a new one, it won't stick. so I'm like faceless, like the missing kid on the milk carton.
ha ha, thanks for the well wishes. I'll be happy if 1 person buys it, and isn't in some way related to me.
-L
Just got around to watching the Smithfield footage... and just received the news on Xmas eve that one of my brothers now works as a Smithfield meat inspector. :/
Cairo, to be precise. I've given up trying to hide it - those wretched statistcs make it impossible.
Zoë Adele is such a beautiful name and the pics of her sleeping in all of her cute and snuggly outfits are just wonderful. Congrats and I can't wait to see more pictures and hear all the fun parenting stories. I'm sure there will be many of both throughout the years :-)
Thanks David for your comment on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's nice to know there are others out there that didn't care for it either. I seriously thought there was something wrong with me for not being able to "get it" whatever "it" is in this case that has so many people enthralled.
How are things with the little one? The pic you have up is just way too cute.
