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Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jacob Wren
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Whistle Blower
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"There is a Whistle Blower that wanders with us, sleeps alongside us in the great outdoors. Perhaps we are here to protect them but, either way, I often fear for their life. The corporation they exposed to criticism would certainly like to see them dead. We, on the other hand, want them to continue living."
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever on my Patreon. The above Read more of this blog post »
"There is a Whistle Blower that wanders with us, sleeps alongside us in the great outdoors. Perhaps we are here to protect them but, either way, I often fear for their life. The corporation they exposed to criticism would certainly like to see them dead. We, on the other hand, want them to continue living."
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever on my Patreon. The above Read more of this blog post »
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Polyamorous Love Song
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Rich and Poor
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2016
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Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed
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2010
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
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2024
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Families are Formed Through Copulation
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2007
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If our wealth is criminal then let's live with the criminal joy of pirates
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2015
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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART
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2018
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Unrehearsed Beauty
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“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
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“If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world.”
― Rich and Poor
― Rich and Poor
“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees of pain. Hard work is also a factor. When I abandoned poetry there were so many questions lost to me as well. It remains astonishing to me the degree to which poetry has lost all value and meaning within the conditions of what I loosely refer to as corporate capitalism. Absolutely amazing.”
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
“And my theory about professional artists was as follows: artists are not necessarily the most creative or inspired individuals in any given community. Instead they are those individuals most willing to exploit their own creativity and inspiration, most willing to gain personal profit from their unconscious and its emanations, those with the most missionary zeal for the dissemination of their own idiosyncratic perspectives. Questions of pure creativity clearly lay elsewhere.”
― Polyamorous Love Song
― Polyamorous Love Song
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“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”
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“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
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“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.”
― American Genius
― American Genius
Q&A with Jacob Wren
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— last activity May 05, 2020 12:15PM
Feel free to ask Jacob any questions you might have and he will answer them at his leisure.
Coffee House Press
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— last activity May 10, 2010 09:05AM
A place for fans and authors of Coffee House Press.
Neglected Writers Forum
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— last activity Dec 21, 2014 06:02PM
A forum for sharing information about great but obscure fiction by writers who are too little known and/or whose books are mostly out of print.
Hyperstition
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— last activity Dec 15, 2009 01:52PM
Useful distinctions from the Hyperstition Blog: One difference is that superstitions don't necesarily involve a becoming-real. It's true that superst ...more
Historical Tour de Genre
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— last activity Aug 25, 2016 06:16AM
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge Sometimes the title 'historical' sounds stuffy, or boring and stiff, but it doesn't have to be. Actually, the gen ...more
Black Oceanographers
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— last activity Dec 14, 2010 12:38PM
This group is designed to discuss books published by Black Ocean, receive updates on publications and get news on author events. All are welcome, only ...more
Authors Lounge
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A place for authors to exchange ideas and share information on Goodreads. Or otherwise, unwind, relax and meet other authors. This is our place where ...more
Red Lemonade
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— last activity Sep 18, 2013 05:44PM
Red Lemonade titles and other Alternative Literature books.
A Short Course on Resistance
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— last activity May 08, 2012 11:06AM
“We refuse the general alternative proposed by infinite representation: the indeterminate, the indifferent, the undifferenciated or the difference alr ...more
The Melville House Group
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— last activity Feb 22, 2022 05:26PM
We rather like our books. Just a bit, maybe. A little. Naturally, we want to talk about them with fellow readers. Join us in discussing our books or ...more
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Pamela
Jan 22, 2011 12:48PM
Hey Jacob...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
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Thanks for the friend request. It's great meeting fellow Montreal writers.
HI, Jacob :)Thanks for inviting me.. Nice to know you
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Thanks Jacob for inviting me :)Happy reading ;)
Jacob, thank you for befriending me. I like performance art. I'm interested in seeing what your work is like. You're definitely creative with your book titles! LOL
Hi Jacob,Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!
Thanks for adding me, Jacob. I see you're in Montreal, a city I visit frequently (and love) because my son lives there.
Thanks for the add. Jacob. I find your profile fascinating. I'll have to search out some of your books. I love works skewed towards performance art. Cheers.
