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Nick Holmberg

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http://nickholmbergwrites.com/

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Psychological Mystery, Family Saga, Coming Of Age

Influences

Viet Thanh Nguyen, John Steinbeck

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January 2018

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Nick Holmberg is an award-winning author who grew up in Northern California. He earned his BA in English from SJSU in 2000. While earning a Master’s in creative writing at The City College of New York, he started work on his first novel, The Emergent. Since 2004, he has lived and worked as an educator in his native California, as well as South Korea, Illinois, and Texas. Throughout all of this, he has experimented with content, form, and function on this website and in the novel.

He now resides in Des Moines, where he is currently at work on his next project, a novella and five short stories tentatively titled Anxiety and Other Comedies.

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Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A book for all artists; a book for all humanists. Not sure why it took so long for me to get around to reading this masterpiece, but the timing couldn’t be better as I finish my second novel with many of the same themes surrounding why we create art, why we live.

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Flesh

by David Szalay

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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)

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Hamlet

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As a writer and an author with a published novel, Kuang’s book makes me uneasy. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’ve never read any of Kuang’s other work (fantasy is not, as of yet, my cuppa joe), but in this narrative it is clear that she kn ...more
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Written in 2019, Eggers couldn't have known that DJT would recapture the WH in 2024. But the book ends in a place of prescience. What will become of the US after this nightmare is over? More importantly, what will be remaining for our kids? ...more
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An important and timely book. I appreciate how the authors use anecdotes to try making the technical details more comprehensible. I still think the technical stuff was a little too dense for the layperson.
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