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Laird Barron
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in Palmer, Alaska, The United States
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February 2008
With today’s release of Blood Standard, ex-hitter Isaiah Coleridge is loosed upon the scene. Michael Harvey, author of Brighton; and The Chicago Way, put it like this:
Read more of this blog post »“Rendered in icy strokes of prose, Laird Barron’s Blood Standard is a remarkably self-assured crime novel—at once explosive and intimate, with a tightly wound plot and wonderfully realized characters. And then there’s Barron’s he...
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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
— published 2007 — 8 editions |
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The Croning
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Occultation and Other Stories
— published 2010 — 8 editions |
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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
— published 2013 — 3 editions |
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X's For Eyes
— published 2015 — 3 editions |
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The Light is the Darkness
— published 2011 — 5 editions |
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Swift to Chase
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Man with No Name
— published 2016 — 7 editions |
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Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1
by , — published 2014 — 7 editions |
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Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)
— published 2018 — 3 editions |
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Thanks, much. I wonder if this was an isolated printing error. Whatever the case, I'll make sure you end with a replacement.
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Thank you. I'll put up a link later--it's tribute day for a fellow author and a lot of his colleagues are posting little bits like this one.
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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
― Laird Barron
― Laird Barron
“It’s about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It’s about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.”
― Laird Barron
― Laird Barron
“Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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wow.you list of writers is impressive
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