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A Secret Location On The Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980
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The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript
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1997
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Exit Moonshine, Enter Wall
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2012
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Rodney’s Recent Updates
"My favorite book of all time. Loosely based on Mozart's Requiem and chock full of social commentary. Innovative in the way it switches literary formats along with story lines. Intelligent, twisted and captivating."
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"Quite astonishing. On a par with the finest Sorrentino, but with a more devastating moral beauty. It's a "documents" novel structured around a Catholic Mass for the Dead that takes a scathing look at modern moral degeneracy. Like the finest experimen"
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"It's not hard to rate this, but it is hard to summarise it. Post-modern I suppose, in that there are lots of interrelated vignettes with recurring characters or themes, but unlike most po-mo books, this is light rather than dense, easy to read and im"
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"Curtis White is badass. There could be other things that I could say, other expletives that I could use, but badass pretty much sums it up. In "Requiem", he tries to convey and understand that there is something in human nature that we set ourselves "
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“Exit, pursued by a bear.”
― The Winter's Tale
― The Winter's Tale
“You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.”
― A Map of the World
― A Map of the World
“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
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“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
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