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Adam Bregman

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Los Angeles, The United States

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Adam Bregman's debut novel is Angelino Heights. He has written extensively for the L.A. Times and L.A. Weekly, covering every aspect of the city. He has also contributed to more than 40 publications including the Stranger, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix and OC Weekly. He was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ...more

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Adam Bregman rated a book liked it The Town (The Snopes Trilogy, #2) by William Faulkner	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
17 years after publishing The Hamlet, Faulkner, near the end of his writing career, came out with the second book in the Snopes Trilogy, The Town. Having now read more than half of Faulkner's work, I'd say my favorite of his novels is The Hamlet, so ...more
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This felt like something I might have had to read in high school. I was curious about James Joyce, as other writers I like, Thomas Wolfe for one, were nutso for him. My wife suggested I start with The Dubliners before tackling Ulysses. But these stor ...more
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Rather than reading all of Baldwin's essay collections individually, it's not a bad idea to pick up this volume, which contains the bulk of them. I'm fortunate that my daughter is planning to study several of them for her public high school lit class ...more
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Last year, I read Woolf's To the Lighthouse and was floored by its sumptuous prose and profound examination of loneliness and time's passing. Jacob's Room, written five years earlier, in 1922, is quaint at best. This very English novel, perhaps more ...more
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