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Rob Dinsmoor

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Born

in Martinsville, Indiana

Website

http://www.talesofthetroupe.com

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Memoir, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Hunter S. Thompson

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I grew up in a university town called Bloomington, Indiana. It is a pleasant enough place, but I couldn't wait to get away from the small-town small-mindedness. I went to Dartmouth and then moved to New York, where I worked in publishing by day and wrote and performed with the comedy troupe Chucklehead by night.

Chucklehead gained some notoriety in the mid- to late-1980s but never really went anywhere. I moved to Massachusetts with my wife, but we split up. I was so saddened about the comedy writing I had left behind that I wrote a book called Tales of the Troupe. It was published in July. The troupe members are starting to hear about it, and everyone who has read it so far really liked it.

I wrote another collection called The Yoga Divas an ...more

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	Happy Holidays Anthology by Andrew Christie (Editor), Laura M. Baird (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dean Baker (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 26 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
	You Can Leave Anytime 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Yoga Divas and Other Stories 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 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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I know this is a Luddite's way of dealing with GoodReads but I just don't know any better. Read my interview with Lisette Brodey's character, Molly Hacker, by following this link:

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“Just because I choose to live in the light, that doesn't mean I can't see in the dark.”
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“Procrastination has been a boon to my sobriety. I keep thinking I'd like to go out and get really trashed some night--but not tonight. It's really a variant of "One Step at a Time.”
― Rob Dinsmoor, You Can Leave Anytime

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“Just because I choose to live in the light, that doesn't mean I can't see in the dark.”
― Rob Dinsmoor

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“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

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