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Tucker Lieberman

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Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, 2022).

He also wrote Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty (2020), Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains (2018), and Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption (3rd ed., 2024). His bilingual poetry book, Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está (2021), inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, was a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books poetry contest and nominated for a 2022 SFPA Elgin Award.

His essays and stories are in anthologies including Instant Classic (That No One Will Read) (2023), It Came From the Closet (2022), the 2021 Lambda finalist Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, the 2012 Lambda finalist Letters for ...more

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	Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty 4.92 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Most Famous Short Film of All Time 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2022 — 3 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
	Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está: An Origin Myth of Grief / Un mito de origen de la pesadumbre 4.26 avg rating — 23 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
	Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Pokerface 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018	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
	Wild Mushrooms: Poems of Change really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Instant Classic: That No One Will Read by Tucker Lieberman (Goodreads Author), Ryszard I. Merey (Goodreads Author), Zilla Novikov (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 12 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
	Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018 — 3 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
	A Gobbling Miracle Happened There 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Thoughts and Prayers Corporation 2.67 avg rating — 3 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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‘Now Departing From Track 1’: Introduction to ‘Ten Past Noon’

Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty, published in 2020, is Tucker Lieberman’s hybrid nonfiction work about “war, racism, gender, time, mortality, free will, money, argument, information architecture, and why a writer might not finish a book.” Now, you can read the introduction, which explains what fuel the train runs on. I’m pleased to share the introduction online, and I hope you’ll be curious

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Transexualidades. Otras miradas posibles

by Miquel Missé

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Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

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“One can begin “being” one’s true self and end up “doing” quite a lot, but what one does with one’s true self may not be what the boss asked for.”
― Tucker Lieberman, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption

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“Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

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“I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.”
― Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

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“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you”
― Amiri Baraka

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“She'd wanted the attention, she'd wanted more people to know her gift, as if the more people who knew, the more real it would be.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

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“He said he would have a program running in the background to monitor the game. If my true name is ever spoken aloud, the dungeon will smite me even if he’s not paying attention. … You’re not the one being monitored by some kind of auto-smite program.”
― Studio Dongo, Vanishing in a Puff of Logic: The Tediously Charmed Life of RegretMeNo(t) the Elven Wizard

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