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Alex Kudera
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Philadelphia, The United States
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Ha Jin, Bharati Mukherjee, Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, Thomas Pyncho
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I could barely pay my bills
"And even then, even with the flimsy and barely present political framework of my youth, I realized that I was bad at the job in part because I could barely pay my bills. And I would spend my day trying to contact people who could barely pay their bills. And I was doing this for a paycheck that was only kind of enough. And I'd walk outside on breaks and look at my phone, and I'd have a missed phon
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Fight for Your Long Day
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2010
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Auggie's Revenge
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Frade Killed Ellen
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2015
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The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity
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2011
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Turquoise Truck
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2015
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| 4.5, Walter Aske's memoir of temp work, is about two hundred pages or half the book. It's very much in the spirit and tradition of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, Bohumil Hrabal's I Served the King of England, Younghill Kang's East ...more | |
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This slim, spare volume is affordable and likely captures what many 20 and 30-something young men are going through these days. See this full-length review: https://dodoeraser.org/2026/09/19/i-w... ...more |
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I'm on page 95. I peeled it randomly off the shelf in poetry, but it's inspiration, self-help, and spiritual guidance. I'm on page 156. There is some good stuff here, but the clichés can overwhelm at times--"intentional," "real," and so on. I'm old en ...more |
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“Save for the fit of bizarre laughter at the end, the man seems so calm, sensible, rational. Duffy wishes he met more like him. A bit paranoid about this terrorism business, but frankly, he might be right. You never know who is around the bend to blow you up, destroy your symbols, set your embassy on fire, shit on your toilet seat, or send anthrax swimming into the subway air and into everyone's lungs.”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD, so they wouldn't feel their own situation was so bleak. If they saw a ten-year veteran adjunct with a PhD, they might lose hope of securing a permanent job. It was the least I could do, as a good American, to remind the young we were an innocent and optimistic country where everyone was entitled to a fulfilling career. To make sure they understood that PhD stood not for "piled higher and deeper" or "Pop has dough," but in fact the degree meant "professional happiness desired," and at the altruistic colleges of democratic America only the angry or sad ones need not apply.”
― Auggie's Revenge
― Auggie's Revenge
“And so his royal Duffleleupagus is seized with the megalomaniacal conceit that he is the contemporary Jesus, the man wandering through the lives of these forlorn people, beaten and broken down by the unbearable thirst of relative deprivation--unless it was all of capitalism, or terrorism, or loneliness, or time. Of course, to compare oneself to Jesus is at least ridiculous, and yet not uninspired extreme narcissism, and although he cannot remember reading it symptomatic of a particularly overt form of latent homosexuality, he could not say for sure he had not read that either. On a cereal box top or as fortune cookie filler? Svevo or Zizek? Soft-core porn spam or in freshman composition?”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.”
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
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