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Ron Hogan

author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/profile/ronhogan

born

June 16, 1970

gender

male

place of birth

United States

website

http://www.ronhogan.net

genre

History, Entertainment

influences

Greil Marcus, Dawn Powell, Jim Bouton, Gavin Lambert, Robert Anton Wilson

about this author

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Ron Hogan is the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, a visual tribute to '70s Hollywood Publishers Weekly called "one of the year's most fun" coffee table books when it was published in 2005. He also contributed to the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning.

In addition to editing (and writing a good chunk of) the literary website Beatrice.com, he writes about the business side of publishing at GalleyCat. And he published an e-book of his "translation" of the Tao Te Ching that is downloaded by more than 25,000 readers a year in various

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avg rating: 4.22 | 18 ratings | 2 distinct works

	The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane! American Films of the 1970s (Hardcover) by Ron Hogan (goodreads author!) avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	View from the Top: Law Firm Leaders Unlock the Secrets of a Successful Legal Career (Paperback) by Ron Hogan (goodreads author!) avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 2005	my rating:

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Ron is currently reading

	03/20 Ron gave to: Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1) by Michael Moorcock, John Picacio bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy	my rating:
	read in March, 2008 Ron said: "Michael Moorcock is one of the secret architects of 21st-century pop culture, and this bleak variant on the sword-and-sorcery epic is pretty much where he started doing it. Elric might not be the first anti-hero in epic fantasy, but he was cetainly o...more " add a comment
	03/06 Ron is currently reading: Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter (Hardcover) by Robert Rummel-Hudson (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: currently-reading, memoirs	my rating:
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July 17
	Ron gave to: Anathem (Hardcover) by Neal Stephenson bookshelves: mindblowing, science-fiction, social-satire	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Ron said: "Think of it as Stephenson's Foundation Trilogy or maybe his Dune: a huge, sweeping story set on an alien world, which is as much about probing a cul...more " add a comment
July 12
	Ron gave to: After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen (Mass Market Paperback) by Suzanne Enoch bookshelves: historical-fiction, romance	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Ron said: "Sullivan Waring is a well-respected (albeit, given his illegitimate birth, socially shunned) horse breeder by day, and a cat burglar by night -- but only because he's stealing back his mother's paintings. He's in the midst of liberating one such when...more " add a comment
	Ron gave to: Duchess By Night (Mass Market Paperback) by Eloisa James bookshelves: crossdressing, historical-fiction, romance	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Ron said: "The latest installment in Eloisa James' "Duchesses" series is the most humorously perverse yet, as the widow Harriet disguises herself as a young man in order to accompany her friend Isidore to the most wicked ongoing house party in England...more " add a comment
July 11
	Ron gave to: A Poisoned Season (Hardcover) by Tasha Alexander bookshelves: historical-fiction, romance, suspense	my rating:
	read in January, 2007 Ron said: "Lady Emily Ashton gets caught up in a series of house burglaries that may be connected to the arrival in London of a pretender to the Bourbon throne, and when one of the victims of those crimes is then murdered, she is persuaded to solve that crime a...more " add a comment
	Ron gave to: A Fatal Waltz (Hardcover) by Tasha Alexander bookshelves: historical-fiction, romance, suspense	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Ron said: "I went to college with the author, so I am somewhat biased in her favor, but this is an excellent historical romance with plenty of suspense elements. This time around, Emily must clear the husband of one of her dearest friends of a classic English c...more " add a comment
	Ron gave to: And Only to Deceive (Paperback) by Tasha Alexander	my rating:
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July 01
	Ron joined the ¡ POETRY ! group.
June 29
	Ron gave to: Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover) by Sharon Waxman bookshelves: art, art-history, cultural-studies, reportage	my rating:
	read in June, 2008 Ron said: "Waxman visits some of the most famous museums in the world AND some of the countries where their most prized antiquities came from to speak with advocates on both sides of the restitution debate. " add a comment
June 22
	Ron gave to: Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Hardcover) by Ben Ratliff bookshelves: biography, cultural-studies, jazz	my rating:
	read in May, 2007 Ron said: "Ratliff isn't interested in Coltrane's biography so much as in the impact of his music on the jazz that came after him. He understands the importance of jazz as a collaborative medium, where playing styles are constantly influenced by interactions wi...more " add a comment

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¡ POETRY ! — 871 members — last activity 3 hours, 27 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more

Murakami fans — 377 members — last activity 3 days ago, 05:02PM
A place for fans of Haruki Murakami or similar writers.

The PRIVATE EXCLUSIVE GROUP — 11 members — last activity 10 days ago, 06:08AM

This group, as you can see, is PRIVATE and also EXCLUSIVE.

DO NOT ASK TO BE ADMITTED, BECAUSE THE ANSWER WILL BE NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO. Serio...more

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from Kevin

03/08/2008 01:27AM

Ron Hogan! Hello!!

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from Jonathan

03/02/2008 09:44AM

What ho, Ron. Good to see you on here.

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