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Jeff Giles

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in Denville, NJ, The United States

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Nonfiction, Biography, Fiction

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For the last 30-plus years and counting, Jeff Giles has been a pop culture writer of mild renown, with bylines at an array of publications including Paste Magazine, the Village Voice, American Songwriter, Ultimate Classic Rock, and Rotten Tomatoes. The founder of beloved aughts online zine Jefitoblog, he also co-founded Popdose and is the author of three books: "Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live," "Uncle John's Beer-Topia: A Heady Brew of Beer Miscellany," and the supernatural comedy "Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane." ...more

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	The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice (TED Books) by Zak Ebrahim, Jeff Giles (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 4,186 ratings — published 2014 — 35 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
	Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live 4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Winona Ryder by David Wild (Introduction/Contributor), Barbara O'Dair (Preface), Leslie Van Buskirk 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 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
	Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — 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
	Les âmes perdues, Tome 02: Le Monde du Haut by Jeff Giles (Goodreads Author), Emmanuelle Urien (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	The Edge of Everything (2 Book Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	O Limite de Tudo 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Newsweek meet the Beatles (again) (with Race & Politics, The O.J. Effect, October 23, 1995) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Silence, her mother liked to say, could heal you or it could make you go crazy. It all depended on how you listened to it.”
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“They all believed they were innocent, no matter what they had done.”
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“Being with Zoe always quieted everything in X. It unclenched and unfolded him. This was all X wanted - moments likes this, a lifetime's worth all strung together.”
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“Writing’s a pathology,” I say. “I’d pack it in tomorrow, if I could.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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“We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen? Not”
― Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

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“Right now the Seiko claimed it was sixty-two minutes past forty on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday in both December and March.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

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