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Review of my book in Reader's Favorite. It got a 5.

Reviewed By Jon Michael Miller for Readers’ Favorite

Macular Degeneration and Other Stories by Robin Vigfusson is an engrossing collection of 24 stories, any of which can easily be read in one sitting. They are delightful and thought-provoking in their reality and unabashed directness. Although the title suggests the aging process, the subjects, settings, and ideas are widely varied, but each one d Read more of this blog post »
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Monster by John Gregory Dunne
"Kind of wild this got written, pretty boring! The first half is a more or less interesting story of how a movie gets made, and Dunne writes in a dishy enough way to keep the reader interested. But things really go off the rails when he starts getting" Read more of this review »
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Monster by John Gregory Dunne
"This book makes screenwriters look like beggars on the street, but instead of asking for a quarter, they're begging for a quarter-million dollars. Although I think the intent of the book was to show how frustrating the screenwriting process can be wh" Read more of this review »
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Unreadable. Dunne drops names so hard and fast, it's like being pelted with snowballs. You just want to close the book and seek shelter, somewhere. He even drops names of people he's never met, but could have, like Grace Kelly. ...more
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Delmore Schwartz by James Atlas
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This is a decent biography of a very repellent man. Schwartz was a talented poet and writer, but nothing would have been lost if his work had never been published. He was extremely ambitious and felt he never got the recognition or wealth he deserved ...more
Delmore Schwartz by James Atlas
" Still reading, but I completely agree with your assessment of his personality. Makes a bio slow going when the subject is so unappealing. "
Delmore Schwartz by James Atlas
"The definitive statement on perhaps the greatest single squandered talent in 20th century American poetry. Atlas excels in the early and middle sections of the book, immersing the reader in Schwartz's meteoric rise with tremendous detail and an unspa" Read more of this review »
Sontag by Benjamin Moser
"This is a competent and comprehensive biography of Susan Sontag. The fact it won a Pulitzer is of course doing yeoman's work for sustaining awareness of Sontag. It does somehow feel like this biography is somehow, despite its length, light on Sontag'" Read more of this review »
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
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Very, very dreary. This writer was a progenitor of "Magic Realism", but if this depiction of the afterlife is true, I can see why people are trying to live as long as possible. A young man travels to his dead father's hometown to find out about the m ...more
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“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Our death is our wedding with eternity
What is the secret? "God is One."
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the Light of God,
The death of the carnal soul is a blessing.
Regarding him, say neither bad nor good,
For he is gone beyond the good and the bad.
Fix your eyes on God and do not talk about what is invisible,
So that he may place another look in your eyes.
It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such a Light?
Although all lights emanate from the Divine Light
Don't call all these lights "the Light of God";
It is the eternal light which is the Light of God,
The ephemeral light is an attribute of the body and the flesh.
...Oh God who gives the grace of vision!
The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.”
Rumi

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