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Rodney Phillips

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in Valley City, North Dakota, The United States

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Average rating: 4.18 · 44 ratings · 9 reviews · 3 distinct works

	A Secret Location On The Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980 by Steven Clay, Rodney Phillips (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript 4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exit Moonshine, Enter Wall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)

by Sebastian Barry

bookshelves: bedroom, novels, historical-fiction, booker-prizes, irish, currently-reading, tbr

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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

by Nathan Kernan

bookshelves: currently-reading, a-poetry-poetics, new-york-school-2, biographies, queer

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Books to Die For

by John Connolly (Goodreads Author)

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“Exit, pursued by a bear.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
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