Thaddeus Rutkowski
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Tricks of Light
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2020
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Roughhouse
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1999
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Haywire
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2010
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Tetched: A Novel in Fractals
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2005
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Safe Colors: A Novel in Short Fictions
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Guess and Check
2 editions
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2017
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Border Crossings
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2018
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Violent Outbursts
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2015
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Your Impossible Voice #2: Your Impossible Voice Journal
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Basic training
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The stories in "My Third Half" are sharp, witty, and full of life. Vogt crafts his tales carefully to tell us about various people we might know--people in the city and in the suburbs, living mainly in the present day. We see ourselves in his charact ...more | |
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What I like about this book is its poetic voice and the knowing quality of the stories about Stan, a school janitor who learns much from the library. Bruce Piasecki is an expert on business and environmental issues, and his interests range widely--ac ...more | |
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Glad I finally read this book. I thought the family here would be more like my family (Chinese mother, American father), but here the family stays together, and the various members do their best to support each other. What is said and what is thought ...more | |
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This is my favorite quote from the book, about midway through: "I hear the cadenced wail of an ambulance stuck in traffic. How hard it is to find the lyrical mode we've devised to accompany our cities to their nostalgic doom." I can relate to the sir ...more | |
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I enjoyed reading these brief, strong, lyrical poems by Gabor G. Gyukics, a poet and literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. Many of the pieces refer to elements of nature--the moon, wind, rain, sun, and trees--to evoke a sense of "harmony wit ...more | |
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All of these poems, inspired by the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, offer something to ponder and/or savor. For instance, in the poem "Love is Colder Than Death," Pisarra lays out the ingredients for a good dramatic thriller: "Beat petty criminals ...more | |
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I bought this hardcover at The Strand for $2.95 years ago. I though I'd read it now and recycle it to the public library. But the stories were engaging and grew more engaging toward the end. The last story in the book is "The Book of Sand," about a b ...more | |
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The title of this book, "Stopped by Trains," is apt, because it contains layers of meaning. On one level, trains cannot be stopped. We might imagine an oncoming train, and our best move would certainly be to get out of its way. But, on another level, ...more | |
"Short, terse vignettes paint a profound and moving portrait of a life."
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