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Dangling in the breeze, you know, like all the rotten sacks do…
Chinaski, Chinaski, Chinaski. Somebody dig this man up from his grave and slap him across his rotten face, tell him enough with the horse track poems, tell him they’re bad, real bad! They’re real bad, Hank, if I have to … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, books, boxing, Bukowski, chinaski, fighting, future, hank, hankchinaski, journal, life, patrick moore, reviews, the good fight, truth, work, writing
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The Beats are dyin’ away, and I don’t think I can stop em…
I hate to give a dead man a somewhat poor review for one of his books when I can in no way ask him about what was going through his head at the time. But even if I could ask … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, books, Bukowski, Charlesbukowski, death, evolution, hollywood, jackkerouac, Kerouac, life, movingon, reading, thebeatgeneration, thoughts
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Steinbeck never saw this one coming
“New Veronia”, the debut novel from M. S. Coe, is a demented, other-dimensional parallel to “Of Mice and Men”, dipped in a boiling hot vat of skinhead blood, and then fried in whatever baby oil concoction Hulk Hogan uses to … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blogging, books, coming of age, female writers, high school, real writing, reviews, teenage years, truth, woman writers
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“This was the year that I fell in love with a tornado…”
Do stick figures dream of a third dimension? If they do, that dream springs forth from the creative mind-womb of Julian Porter in the form of his debut novella Hibakusha Don’t Eat Pop-tarts. On the surface, which is not completely … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, book review, books, cats, coming of age, girls, growing up, Hibakusha Don't Eat Pop-tarts, journal, julian porter, life, literature, musings, people, review, thoughts, truth, update, whiskey, writing
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Poetry Review-“Coping Circles” by Glen Binger: A Bittersweet Romp Across Gallows, Through Open Windows, Over Bridge Railings, and Along the Edge of a Razor Blade
Glen Binger, Jersey poet and author of “Thing’s You Don’t Know”, “ENJoy: Stories by the Sea”, and others, slams readers in the face and in the gut with a handful-sized helping of poetry this time in the form of semi-autobiographical … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, blog, blogging, book review, books, buy this book, coping circles, glen binger, journal, life, new book, now, poems, poetry, review, thoughts, truth, writing
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Poetry Review- Scott Laudati’s “Camp Winapooka”: A Nostalgiamageddon of Honest Stitchery and Confluence
My reading relationship with Scott Laudiati is still of a fairly young age; I’ve read Bone House while staying in downtrodden motels for work trips and fell in some kind of love I can’t yet describe. So like any curious … Continue reading
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