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Inthis article, Jeanette Winterson writes:

I had no one to help me, but the T.S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy.

So it was for me. Books saved my life, and gave me a life. I grew up in Mar...

Kill Your Self is currently #23 bestseller in Amazon Kindle's Zen Philosophy category

A bow of thanks to all who’ve bought it.

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Current writing

I seem to be closing in on the the end of the novel I’ve been working on, about a musician in Phoenix who moonlights as an armed robber. I always want to get as close as I can to having a blank page while still having a story, and I think this book might be the closest I’ve gotten so far.

There’s something unique about this one for me: Usually, when I start writing a book, I know what the final scene is going to be, though I don’t know what it means, and I don’t k...

cartoonpolitics:"I am opposing a social order in which it is...

cartoonpolitics:

"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." ~ Eugene Victor Debs

I finished writing The Book of Man 20 years ago today

I woke in the afternoon of the first day of 1994, having slept off the debaucheries of a Scottish New Year celebration. I thought I was a few weeks away from finishing The Book of Man, which I had been working on for two and a half years. I took a walk around Leith in the cold, went home, thawed out, ate dinner, brewed a pot of tea and decided to to do a bit of work on the book. When I went to bed, the book was finished. I couldn’t have imagined the doors it would open for me, and I’m...

NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO HIDE, THIS PROFESSIONAL SKIP TRACE WILL FIND YOU

NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO HIDE, THIS PROFESSIONAL SKIP TRACE WILL FIND YOU:

criminalwisdom:

Gomez, the proprietor of a one-woman operation in Lockhart, Texas, called Unlimited Recoveries, is one of the best skip tracers in the world. A combination bill collector, bounty hunter, and private investigator, a skip tracer finds people and things that have disappeared on purpose. Gomez specializes in “hard-to-locate recoveries”—she prefers cases others can’t solve. To track down the fleet of Cat...

Goodreads: Ask Barry Graham

Goodreads: Ask Barry Graham:

On December 28, 2013, I’ll answer any questions related to my books.

The Buddha sits on a street in Portland, Winter, Year of the...

The Buddha sits on a street in Portland, Winter, Year of the Snake

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city sounds & the willamette