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Steve Turtell
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Her Name Is George
“All that is prearranged is false . . . . . How do I know what I think until I see what I say,”
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel p. 101
In 1995, I was forty-five, in the MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College, and teaching for the first time in my life. In the single class we had in how to teach basic composition, one of our assignments was a brief autobiographical essay. I wrote about my very
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
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Heroes and Householders
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Portraits and Places
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Letter to Frank O'Hara (ReBound Series, #3)
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| Rosie Schaap's account of coming of age in bars "drinking with men" is a delight. She is funny, wise, and unsparing--of herself mostly, but a few others as well--while not being cruel. There's a tenderness and a warmth suffusing this book, which I wi ...more | |
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"[4.5] A long time ago I was supposed to have studied Venice - or rather I did study it, with no great enthusiasm. I never understood why it was a popular topic, and went on to associate the place with chore-ish dullness, dimly aware it also had some "
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“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch; especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth. It's hard to leave a bookstore any day of the year, though, because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.”
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― William Shakespeare
― William Shakespeare
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
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― American Gods
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How cool that you have gay books and my friend Lynda Mapes' tree book in your list. I met Peter Hujar in the 1970s will look at your book some time soon. You might enjoy my recently published autobiography, "Left, Gay & Green; A Writer's Life." Some reviews and other info on Amazon.com about my book, and others I have done. I'm new on Goodreads. Best wishes to you.
Hi Steve, thanks for accepting my friend request! You have great taste in books.
Cheers, Steve
Allen wrote: "How cool that you have gay books and my friend Lynda Mapes' tree book in your list. I met Peter Hujar in the 1970s will look at your book some time soon. You might enjoy my recently published autob..."