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Ward Howarth

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Ward Howarth is the author of the novels River City Blues and Shine A Light. He was voted 'Best Local Author With A New Book' for River City Blues in Richmond Magazine's 30th Annual Best & Worst Issue, August 2017. A television professional by day, he's also a passionate cinephile and coffee devotee. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. ...more

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Ward Howarth I'm going to be reading quite a few things over the summer: Marge Piercy's GONE TO SOLDIERS, which might take me awhile; Don Winslow's THE FORCE, can'…moreI'm going to be reading quite a few things over the summer: Marge Piercy's GONE TO SOLDIERS, which might take me awhile; Don Winslow's THE FORCE, can't wait for that one; some poetry collections, my pal Joshua Poteat's THE REGRET HISTORIES and SELECTED POEMS by William Carlos Williams, edited by Robert Pinsky; and, if I still have time, OUT OF SIGHT by Elmore Leonard.(less)
Ward Howarth I treat it like something I don't have time for. I keep a notebook with me at all times, and I'm constantly keeping story notes/ideas, so that when I …moreI treat it like something I don't have time for. I keep a notebook with me at all times, and I'm constantly keeping story notes/ideas, so that when I do have time to write, I've always got something to write about.(less)
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What an extraordinary book and treatise! My therapist loaned me his copy and I'm glad he did. I'm at a point in my life where I could use a re-think on meaning and suffering and there are lot of takeaways from this book I find useful, principles I ca ...more
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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James Ellroy
“Tell me anything.
Tell me everything.
Revoke our time apart.
Love me fierce in danger.”
James Ellroy, White Jazz

Tim O'Brien
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

William Carlos Williams
This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold”
William Carlos Williams

Leonardo Padura
“He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.
--Havana Red”
Leonardo Padura

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