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Mitchell Hagerstrom

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Places I've lived have supplied the landscapes for my fictions, such as the small towns of Texas, or the warrens of our Tokyo neighborhood, or the beaches of Hawaii, or the wilds of Southern California, or the middle west of Missouri, or the exotic islands in Micronesia, or the streets and alleys of San Francisco, or rural Louisiana.

Writing became a daily habit during my late teens and early twenties. I honed my skills with letters to my family and friends (snail mail in those days), and a creative writing degree in college.

Since childhood I have been an avid reader. On a trip to the library in the 1990s, I wandered the stacks, unable to chose, when I realized what I wanted to read was the book I was writing.

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THREE GENERATIONS


Two books, three generations: a grandmother, mother, and daughter, all strong women who work hard, all stubborn women who quietly live as they believe they ought. Ordinary women, not saints.

The first generation, and the second generation as a tiny person, appear in Miss Gone-overseas, a tale set during WWII on a Japanese-held island in the Western Pacific. During the years I lived on the same Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.0 · 57 ratings · 13 reviews · 3 distinct works
Miss Gone-overseas: Karayuk...

3.81 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Gathered Pieces

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
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A four-hundred year-old mystery! Well-written, well-researched. I had read about the possibility of the Earl of Oxford (Edward der Vere) being the actual William Shakespeare back in the '90s and it seemed quite plausible. However, I did not entirely ...more
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A four-hundred year-old mystery! Well-written, well-researched. I had read about the possibility of the Earl of Oxford (Edward der Vere) being the actual William Shakespeare back in the '90s and it seemed quite plausible. However, I did not entirely ...more
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
"I came into this read with no background knowledge on the debate and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Winkler is an excellent writer, and this reads like a clever, literary wander through the most obscure Internet forum debates from the early " Read more of this review »
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
"An absolutely brilliant overview of all the theories surrounding the author of Shakespeare's plays and who they were, without pushing any one theory over the others, and making it clear that while nothing seems to be known for sure, the reason there " Read more of this review »
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
"This fresh, entertaining investigation into the Shakespeare Authorship Question is remarkably clear-eyed, considering the assault Winkler withstood from the Stratfordian community in 2019 when she published The Atlantic article on the subject. Her re" Read more of this review »
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The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison
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Two novellas. I give the first one four stars, the second two stars. -- so, overall it gets a three from me. I was unable to even finish the second one. The first got off to a shaky start with a creepy main character who I eventually warmed to. The w ...more
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"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson
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P.S. Didn't know Cicero had such good sense! I'd add a big friendly dog and a couple of cats though.


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