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November, 1963/A modest proposal
"Jack Kennedy’s refusal to support the Bay of Pigs invasion angered certain people.
The gusanos in Miami were angry because Kennedy stood by while their children died on the beaches.
The CIA was angry because the President had castrated their battle plans.
The Mafia was angry because they had thrown their support behind Kennedy at election time. In exchange, they had expected to recoup their Havana hotels, brothels, and casinos after the invasion. Now, there would be no invasion, no overthrow, and little Bobby Kennedy was hauling them into Congressional hearings.
Jack Ruby curried favor with them all." — Gates of Eden http://bit.ly/YHTlcM : a story of resistance, rebellion, and love
The gusanos in Miami were angry because Kennedy stood by while their children died on the beaches.
The CIA was angry because the President had castrated their battle plans.
The Mafia was angry because they had thrown their support behind Kennedy at election time. In exchange, they had expected to recoup their Havana hotels, brothels, and casinos after the invasion. Now, there would be no invasion, no overthrow, and little Bobby Kennedy was hauling them into Congressional hearings.
Jack Ruby curried favor with them all." — Gates of Eden http://bit.ly/YHTlcM : a story of resistance, rebellion, and love
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Fact to Fiction: the author discusses real-life origins of his '60s resistance novels
The Resistance Series
Reinhabitory Institute : The multiple protagonists in Gates of Eden are young people coming into adulthood in the 1960s. The novel captures this time of great changes and especially the political awakening of these characters who come from different backgrounds but who are all swept up in the turmoil and possibility of the times. Can you say something about how you came to create these different characters and why you tell the story this way?
Degelman: In order to set a context for our discussion, let me tell you about Gates of Eden and the characters who inhabit the novel. Gates of Eden follows a handful of young rebels who grow up crazed in the conformist claustrophobia of 1950s America. As they grew into awareness, they begin to notice the injustice and inequity in the society that loved to call itself “The American Dream.” They began to notice that the dream often resembled a nightmare, if not for themselves, then for others. Individually and in groups, they began to share their awareness and joined the trickles and torrents that flowed into the resistance, rebellion, and power of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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Reinhabitory Institute : The multiple protagonists in Gates of Eden are young people coming into adulthood in the 1960s. The novel captures this time of great changes and especially the political awakening of these characters who come from different backgrounds but who are all swept up in the turmoil and possibility of the times. Can you say something about how you came to create these different characters and why you tell the story this way?
Degelman: In order to set a context for our discussion, let me tell you about Gates of Eden and the characters who inhabit the novel. Gates of Eden follows a handful of young rebels who grow up crazed in the conformist claustrophobia of 1950s America. As they grew into awareness, they begin to notice the injustice and inequity in the society that loved to call itself “The American Dream.” They began to notice that the dream often resembled a nightmare, if not for themselves, then for others. Individually and in groups, they began to share their awareness and joined the trickles and torrents that flowed into the resistance, rebellion, and power of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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Author Degelman divulges ALL in last-ditch, 2014 interview
Bookpleasures welcomes as our guest today, writer & editor, Charles Degelman. Charles currently teaches narrative and dramatic writing at California State University, Los Angeles.
Previously, he served as staff writer and editor at a Los Angeles based educational organization while he produced original work for the stage and wrote fiction, screenplays, and political commentary.
In 2010, Charles edited A Voice From the Planet, an award-winning collection of international short fiction, published by Harvard Square Editions.
Recent work includes Gates of Eden, a '60s tale of resistance, rebellion, and love. Gates garnered a silver medal from the 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards. A Bowl Full of Nails, set in the counterculture of the 1970s, was a finalist in the PEN/ Bellwether Competition and will be published by Harvard Square Editions in February, 2015.
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Charles Degelman
Previously, he served as staff writer and editor at a Los Angeles based educational organization while he produced original work for the stage and wrote fiction, screenplays, and political commentary.
In 2010, Charles edited A Voice From the Planet, an award-winning collection of international short fiction, published by Harvard Square Editions.
Recent work includes Gates of Eden, a '60s tale of resistance, rebellion, and love. Gates garnered a silver medal from the 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards. A Bowl Full of Nails, set in the counterculture of the 1970s, was a finalist in the PEN/ Bellwether Competition and will be published by Harvard Square Editions in February, 2015.
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Charles Degelman
