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J.S. Kuiken

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November 04, 1983

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James Joyce, Brian Jacques, Romanticism, Realism

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J. S. Kuiken is the author of numerous short stories, essays, poems, plays, and novellas. He is currently at work on a novel. He has published in an assortment of magazines, including Cactus Heart, |tap|, Bosie Magazine, and Foglifter. He earned his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow.

A queer trans man, he lives in Colorado, where he works as a content writer. He has a passion for ancient history and archaeology, watches liberal amounts of television, and keeps his cat, Beatrice, in continual supply of wub-wubs.

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	Foglifter: Vol. 5 Issue 2 by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Goodreads Author), J.S. Kuiken (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Aura: A Collection of Transmasculine Erotica by Shaun J. Phree (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Madeline Elayne (Goodreads Author), J.S. Kuiken (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’m doing research for my novel on the history of music and I found this quote via Wikipedia (I know, Wikipedia bad, blah blah). I’m quite taken with this quote so I’d thought I’d stick it here in order to save it.

But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language u

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