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Luke Jerod Kummer

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Website

http://www.lukejerodkummer.com/

Genre

Historical Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction

Influences

Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Richard Wright, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott M ...more

Member Since

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Luke Jerod Kummer’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York, New Republic, The Washingtonian, and The Village Voice. Takers Mad, his new Audible Original, picks up the twisting trail of a real-life crime that transfixed New York during the Gilded Age. His 2019 novel, The Blue Period, depicted the tragic events that led a young Pablo Picasso to paint somber portraits in nocturnal shades, before Cubism turned the artist into a celebrity. Booklist called it “lush biographical fiction” and the debut was featured in American Way, Literary Hub, The Millions, Full Stop magazine and Marie Claire Greece.

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Average rating: 3.6 · 4,099 ratings · 238 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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“Pablo hated school. Why, he thought, learn letters and numbers when there aren’t any in my pictures?”
― Luke Jerod Kummer, The Blue Period

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“But no one had been able to adequately capture the thing about her she herself most admired—how she could say more with her eyebrows than all the books in the Bibliothèque Nationale. She was proud of those prominent crescents and used them to great effect in daily life.”
― Luke Jerod Kummer, The Blue Period

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“Careful, friend,” Pablo warned. “A gun’s like a penis. You never know what somebody might do with one, especially when they’re drunk or in love.”
― Luke Jerod Kummer, The Blue Period

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