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David Biddle

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in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

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My novel, OLD MUSIC FOR NEW PEOPLE, was published in December 2021, published by The Story Plant. Short stories and flash fiction published with numerous literary publications both online and in print.

Adopted at 9 weeks. Raised well by university professors. Brother is international consultant. Sister is anthropologist living in Australia. Have loved baseball and writing since 1966. Went to Reed College (1976-1980). Graduated with degree in anthropology. 30+ years as environmental consultant. Married, divorced. Married again (in love now for over 30 years).

Part-time freelance writer through it all. Discovered I'm mixed race -- African and Irish -- at the age of 45. My three adult sons still find me somewhat amusing. ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 69 ratings · 33 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Old Music for New People 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Will of God: A Jill Simpson Mystery 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trying to Care it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Implosions of America: Nine Stories 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sound Effect Infinity: A Novel of Mind Control, Altered States, and Music liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Jenna's Mother: A Short Story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Deep-Fried America Dispatches

Flat Branch Press is posting Deep-Fried America dispatches from me on a weekly basis at their website. You might-maybe should check it out. I’ll leave a link at the bottom. Here’s the first dispatch posted a few Wednesdays ago. The Magic Inside Music How a summer night in 1968 sparked a lifelong search for the […]

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Music, Language, and the Brain

by Aniruddh D. Patel

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The Souls of Black Folk

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Some Trick

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David Biddle wrote a new blog post Deep-Fried America Dispatches Flat Branch Press is posting Deep-Fried America dispatches from me on a weekly basis at their website. You might-maybe should check it out. I’ll leave Read more of this blog post »
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David Biddle rated a book liked it Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
So hard to read all the way through. Painful. But just so everyone knows this is one of the best written heartbreaking love stories I've ever read. Lish is likely our best fiction writer. ...more
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“People generally don't like feeling life is complicated and strange.”
― David Biddle, Old Music for New People

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David’s Quotes

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

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“The solution which I am urging is to eradicate the fatal disconnection of subjects which kills the vitality of our modern curriculum. There is only one subject-matter for education, and that is LIfe in all its manifestations. Instead of this single unity, we offer children--Algebra, from which nothing follows; Geometry, from which nothing follows; Science, from which nothing follows; History, from which nothing follows; a Couple of Languages, never mastered; and lastly, most dreary of all, Literature, represented by plays of Shakespeare, with philological notes and short analyses of plot and character to be in substance committed to memory. Can such a list be said to represent Life, as it is known in the midst of living it? The best that can be said of it is, that it is a rapid table of contents which a deity might run over in his mind while he was thinking of creating a world, and has not yet determined how to put it together”
― Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays

tags: active-learning, curriculum, education, life

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