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cal godot
read and liked
brian's
review of Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook):
"1) viva susan sontag! bolano is the 'it' writer of the moment - and my rebellious and bratty self wanted to hate him. or just not read him. then i saw sontag's seal of approval and knew i had to. holy shit, this woman might have the best taste ever. ...more " | |||
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Tosh's
review of The Society of the Spectacle:
"It only took 154 pages to change our world. Guy Debord's manifesto/book length essay that is truly a masterpiece of political writing that borders on the poetic. It is also a crystal clear view how culture is formed in the 20th (and of course the...more " | |||
cal's favorite quotes
"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
— Joseph Campbell
— Joseph Campbell
"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will."
— Aleister Crowley (Magick in Theory and Practice)
— Aleister Crowley (Magick in Theory and Practice)
"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."
— Jonas Mekas
— Jonas Mekas
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
— Christopher Morley
— Christopher Morley
cal's writing
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I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.
Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.
-Jeremy :)
P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.co...
Thanks for sharing some of your favorite books/authors with me. Slaughterhouse-Five is also one of my favorite novels.
Thanks very much for the feedback and the interest in my book. Your words honor me. Carrying my novel would be awesome. I live about two hours from LA--so the local support would mean a lot to me. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.
-Jeremy :)
Favorite novel? It's an impossible question for me to answer. Even the plural is tough for me. Favorite novels: Gravity's Rainbow. Slaughterhouse-5. Wonder Boys. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
Favorite novelists is a much easier question. Vonnegut. Margaret Atwood. Pynchon. Philip K. Dick. Joseph Heller.
Lately I've been reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Fun stuff, well-written and somewhat deeply philosophical literature for young adults.
I'd like to read your novel. Your writing style is snappy and vibrant. It feels like each word is actually there. I'm a bit of an old-timer - started writing decades ago on an old manual typewriter (still use a battered 1948 Royal to compose some poems). Sometimes words written on a computer don't seem to really be there the way words on a page, hammered into place by physical mechanics and force of will.
I'm also a manager at an independent bookstore in LA, and handle the ordering for our science fiction titles (as well as graphic novels). I'd be interested in carrying the book, as you appear to be a California (i.e. local) author.
Thanks for the friendship, cal!
If you don't mind sharing--I'm curious, what's your favorite novel(if you have one)?
Some of my favorites--1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Clockwork Orange, and The God of Small Things.
Also, I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to click here:
http://www.hauntedhousedressin...
Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous fates, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.
-Jeremy :)
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats. -Jeremy :)
P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.co...
Thanks for sharing some of your favorite books/authors with me. Slaughterhouse-Five is also one of my favorite novels.Thanks very much for the feedback and the interest in my book. Your words honor me. Carrying my novel would be awesome. I live about two hours from LA--so the local support would mean a lot to me. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.
-Jeremy :)
Favorite novel? It's an impossible question for me to answer. Even the plural is tough for me. Favorite novels: Gravity's Rainbow. Slaughterhouse-5. Wonder Boys. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.Favorite novelists is a much easier question. Vonnegut. Margaret Atwood. Pynchon. Philip K. Dick. Joseph Heller.
Lately I've been reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Fun stuff, well-written and somewhat deeply philosophical literature for young adults.
I'd like to read your novel. Your writing style is snappy and vibrant. It feels like each word is actually there. I'm a bit of an old-timer - started writing decades ago on an old manual typewriter (still use a battered 1948 Royal to compose some poems). Sometimes words written on a computer don't seem to really be there the way words on a page, hammered into place by physical mechanics and force of will.
I'm also a manager at an independent bookstore in LA, and handle the ordering for our science fiction titles (as well as graphic novels). I'd be interested in carrying the book, as you appear to be a California (i.e. local) author.
Thanks for the friendship, cal!If you don't mind sharing--I'm curious, what's your favorite novel(if you have one)?
Some of my favorites--1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Clockwork Orange, and The God of Small Things.
Also, I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to click here:
http://www.hauntedhousedressin...
Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous fates, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.
-Jeremy :)
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