Ayun Halliday
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Born
Indianapolis, Indiana , The United States
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Spalding Grey, Lynda Barry, Jeffrey Brown, Los Bros Hernandez, Lewis T
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Member Since
May 2008
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No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
7 editions
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2003
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Peanut
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2012
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The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches
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2002
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Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste
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2006
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Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
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2005
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Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo
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2009
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Zinester's Guide to NYC: The Last Wholly Analog Guide to NYC
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2010
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A Sarong In My Backpack
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2005
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Mama Lama Ding Dong - A Mother's Tale from the Trenches
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2006
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Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology
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2012
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I'm usually not too compelled by stories of bourgeois Carroll Gardens in Long Island vacation rentals, but hot damn. This was great. The deer were a particularly nifty touch. The last chapter ... YE GODS! Recommended to anyone who likes a good dystop ...more | |
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I was a theater kid in the 80s, though the training sounds more like my college experience (and my daughter's at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in NYC) It seemed kind of fakey til page 131. PAGE 131!!! ...more |
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"okay, i didn't want to review this before i sent it off to david, because i wanted him to have the surprised thrill of not knowing this book existed. and i know i'm not going to be able to write as disturbing a review as his, so i'm not even going to"
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- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi”
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“As an anonymous letter has recently informed me, a dictatorship is a powerful incitement to the composition of anonymous letters. I have never known a time when so many were in circulation. They are continually arriving at my door. Inspired by passion and enjoying the irresponsibility of their orphaned condition, they nevertheless have one great advantage over legitimate correspondence: they expose their ideas to their ultimate conclusion; they empty the sack.”
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