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Book Review: “The Private Lives of Trees” by Alejandro Zambra

 Rating   Alejandro Zambra is quickly becoming a very well respected writer in his native Chile and throughout Latin America as a whole. Now he’s ready for the English speaking audience and I’m...

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Book Review: “The Possibility of an Island” by Michel Houellebecq

[media-credit id=6 align="alignleft" width="198"][/media-credit] There’s so much happening with this novel, I don’t even know where to begin – so let’s start by saying that underneath the philosophical...

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The Paper Thin Wall

[media-credit id=6 align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit]How one simple “tweet” to a celebrity unleashed a barrage of hate from Right Wing extremists   Who am I? This is the existential question...

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Book Review: “Lazarus Is Dead” by Richard Beard

Europa Editions, 2012 I once saw an interview with novelist Salman Rushdie on C-Span where he discussed his interest in religion, despite the fact that he sees himself as an atheist. He said to the...

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Concealed Narratives

What do we really know?  “Theories are concealed narratives…we should not be taken in by their claims to be valid for all time.” – Jean-François Lyotard Beliefs, theories, ideas: things we grab on to...

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Plays on Assumptions: Garry Crystal’s “And When The Arguing’s Over”

Those of you who have been following my blog for some time now know I don’t keep secret my high admiration of Garry Crystal as a writer. Having published two previous short story collections, “The Last...

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Location! Location! Location! or Does It Really Matter Where You Plant Your Ass?

A recent article in one of The Economist’s blog Prospero concerning the “literary Renaissance” in Brooklyn (something that has actually been going on for nearly two decades now) got me thinking about...

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Andy Warhol Thought Us Strange

1986: It was a typical Saturday night. My bandmates and I did what we always did on the weekends that particular summer – heading down to The Village to drop by a couple of clubs to see who was...

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The Goth Chick of Ludlow Street

1996: It was cold and Max Fish was packed to the rafters with sorted hipsters, artists, college students and frat boys. Outside the snow was falling lightly over Ludlow Street. This was before the...

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The Body

One would think that two decades into the twenty-first century, one’s consciousness would have reached a certain point of enlightenment. After all, 250,000 years, give or take, of man wandering the...

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Way Beyond “The Da Vinci Code”

The whole world knows – or should know – about Dan Brown’s 2003 mega-bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code but in case any of you reading this were either too young to remember it or have been living...

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Letter To My Seven Year Old Self

I see you there, sitting cross legged on the floor next to your little chestnut colored bookcase (believe it or not, you still have it), that all too familiar bright orange Young Student’s Encyclopedia...

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“Leaving London” by Garry Crystal plus An Interview With The Author

One of the ironies about living in a large city is the fact that one can often feel very lonely even though one is surrounded by millions of people. In any major city around the world, whether it be...

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“Hurricane: A Collection of Poems” by Dean Walker plus An Interview With The...

It’s been a long while since I’ve read any poetry so it was with great interest (and pleasure) that I happened to read poet/activist Dean Walker’s debut poetry collection Hurricane: A Collection of...

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“The Dark Cave Between My Ribs” by Loren Kleinman plus An Interview With The...

Poetry – for me – has always been a very different beast from fiction. With fiction, particularly novels, you have a lot of space to breathe, a lot of room to meander a little if you want to, indulge,...

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Bohemia After Dark: Artist Piera Gemelli

I’ve always said that the best thing about social media was its ability to open the world up to amazing, talented artists from across the globe in a way that would have been impossible twenty-five...

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“All Of Us With Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas: Short...

Coming off the heels of his brilliant novel Leaving London, author Garry Crystal presents this new work, a collection of short fiction and plays. Some of these works have been available for some time,...

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An Adventure In Literature: What I Learned Over 20 Years Of Traveling The...

It’s been nearly 20 years since the release of my first official book – a poetry chapbook called Standing On Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion (Alpha Beat Press). That was 1996. Was a very different...

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E.L. James and The Twitter Lynch Mob That Descended Upon Her

Not so long ago, a literary phenomenon took place. Perhaps it was one that many writers and would be writers couldn’t understand but it was a phenomenon nevertheless. A woman wrote some “Fan Fiction”,...

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