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Mike Karpa

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San Rafael, The United States

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Gay and Lesbian, Fiction, Science Fiction

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August 2013

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Here's my standard bio: Mike’s fiction, memoir and nonfiction can be found in Tin House, Foglifter, Tahoma Literary Review, Oyster River Pages and other magazines. He is the author of Criminals (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GRTWYBF), a literary thriller that was selected for Best Books of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews (starred review), the upbeat scifi romance Red Dot (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GR7PH2B) and contemporary social comedy The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM6L7D73), winner of Best LGBTQ novel at the San Francisco Book Festival! He lives with his husband and dog in San Francisco.

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	Red Dot 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2021 — 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 Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — 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
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	Because Of Course: A Prize-winning Story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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I started out without a lot of expectations, and 10% of the way in I thought it would be a light, breezy, enjoyable read, but by 20% that had already soured under the incessant, insidery name-dropping. I soldiered through to the end, because I was re ...more
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Mike Karpa liked a quote “Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere” ...more Dashiell Hammett
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“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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