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Mark Stevens
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John Doe and Tom DeSavia, “Under the Big Black Sun”
I lived in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1980. I saw X on the roof of a UCLA dorm before they broke big. I knew that they were good and wild and intense. I saw The Plimsouls. I saw The … Continue reading →
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The Fireballer
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Antler Dust (The Allison Coil Mystery Series Book 1)
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2007
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Buried by the Roan (Allison Coil, #2)
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2011
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Trapline (An Allison Coil Mystery, 3)
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2014
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Lake of Fire
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2015
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The Melancholy Howl (Allison Coil Mystery #5)
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2018
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| I lived in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1980. I saw X on the roof of a UCLA dorm before they broke big. I knew that they were good and wild and intense. I saw The Plimsouls. I saw The Plugz. I saw The Clash at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium but that hardl ...more | |
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Black Hornet was first published in 1994, seven years before James Sallis published the biography Chester Himes: A Life. But Sallis was already into Himes’ work. In 1993, Sallis published Difficult Lives, a series of essays about Jim Thompson, David G ...more |
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| In the opening of All The Sinners Bleed, Charon County Sheriff Titus Crown wakes up, drinks coffee, chats with his father, dons his uniform, and gets a call from his dispatcher. Sheriff Crown hears “sheer hopelessness” on the other end of the line. T ...more | |
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The Emerald Mile is about so much more than a daring ride through the Grand Canyon on high, fast water. Much more. It’s about managing water in the arid west, it’s about Edward Abbey, the Bureau of Reclamation, Lake Powell, John Wesley Powell, Lake Mea ...more |
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| “Betty grew up in the golden age of Hollywood, back when movies were Broadway on film, so her idea of music is ‘singing as entertainment,’ and you can’t call what I do singing or entertainment. I hiss and yell and wail. Sometimes I make seagull noise ...more | |
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The author (of this review) is stalling. The author (again, of this review) doesn’t quite know what to write. When reading Vanishing Point, the author (of this review) would occasionally hear his wife say, “are you still reading that quirky little nove ...more |
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Easily a Great American Novel and also one of the greatest baseball novels ever because, of course, it’s not a novel about baseball. Except when it is. Ambitious, outsized, Underworld touches on the major events of the second half of the 20th Century b ...more |
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| I’m not a fan of time travel stories—I think. It’s all the jumping around. It feels so random. My head doesn’t go there; it wants to fight the logic. And there’s inevitably the whole discussion of manipulating the past to change the future. Yawn! Doe ...more | |
“If I hadn’t come back today to check on you boys, which one of you would have taken this puppy apart?” she said. “I was going to wing it,”
― Antler Dust
― Antler Dust
“Baseball can’t guard against any of those wrinkles or the delicate psychology of these precious athletic minds. Baseball is a humbling game, they say.”
― The Fireballer
― The Fireballer
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.”
― The Fireballer
― The Fireballer
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| Nora Roberts Grou...: A - Z Author Challenge | 11 | 20 | Jan 01, 2023 01:55PM | |
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| Turn of a Page: February's Readathon | 78 | 91 | Feb 14, 2023 06:27AM | |
| A Million More Pages: * February 2023 Word Hunt | 32 | 56 | Feb 27, 2023 01:37PM | |
| A Million More Pages: * February 2023 Cover Hunt | 28 | 52 | Feb 28, 2023 07:20AM |
“The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“I didn't offer to help him carry any of his stuff. That's the unwritten code between cabbies and movers.... It's his punishment for tricking the cab driver into playing Mayflower, because he knows he's not going to give you a tip, and so do you.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
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Jan 25, 2023 05:50AM
Phil -- Try Mark54.Stevens@gmail.com I gotta head back to Mancos on Friday morning, the 3rd. Head back early .... Alas. What about Tuesday the 31st?
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Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of..."Coffee sounds good, would have come to see you at TC but going to a concert that night. Friday AM the 3rd? Is there a way to PM on here? Last email I have for you is dpsk12.org ;-)
Philip Chip wrote: "Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! ..." I would love to. I am actually going to be in Denver next week (we live in SW Colorado now). Event at Tattered Cover Thursday night (McGregor Square) for The Fireballer ... 6 PM on Feb. 2. Let me know if you have time for coffee during the week?
Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! Regards, rega..."
I'm doing great! Should grab a drink sometime and catch up. I will give one of those two a read, maybe Fireballer since opening day is just around the corner. Go Rox, sigh ;-)
Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! Regards, regards. Well I think The Fireballer is a different flavor, but seems to be doing pretty well. Maybe take a look and see if it might be up your alley? Otherwise, book two in the mystery series is Buried by The Roan. Hope you're well!
Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?
Good early morning Mark, thanks for the welcome and have a great weekend too!
Not me, Sherrie -- no MFA in my pocket. I would have loved the chance to pursue one, but it's not me. Cheers !Mark
Hey, finally someone I know! Well, sort of. You are the Mark Stevens who got his MFA from NU in CW, right?
Thanks much for including me among your goodreads freinds, Mark. Want to wish you the very best in all.Namaste, jesse
Nice to find someone else who thinks highly of Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities. :^)
Nice to find someone else who thinks highly of Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities. :^)
Hey Mark... It's good to be with you on Goodreads...Terry
Hi Mark,Thanks for befriending me here as well as in real-life!
- Beth
