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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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October 2010
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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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| There are some highlights and poignant lines, but when writers such as Bharati Mukherjee, Roberto Bolano, and Aleksandar Hemon have already done interesting work with borders, customs, passports--see Hemon's The Lazarus Project, for example--you have ...more | |
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August 22: I'm on page 100. August 24: I'm on page 147. It's not the best writing, but it's a fun book. Also, it's intriguing that Rick Steves, seemingly a famous guy in the travel industry now, somewhat lucked out by getting to take this trip in 1978 ...more |
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I'm only on page 17; "Live Rust" on pages 4 and 5 is a great poem. Tonight, I'm thinking that Michael Robbins is the Poet Laureate of Generation X. I wonder if that's been said before or how often about Robbins or any other writer. 12:59 a.m. 8/19: This ...more |
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is starting The Orchard Is Full of Sound: I have a second copy that I could let go at substantial discount (shipping included). A short touching memoir that gets into both Appalachia and the writing life.
The Orchard Is Full of Sound: one author's connection with Breece D'J Pancake: a memoir
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| I'm only on page 22, but an early impression is that what Michael Robbins put together in Alien v. Predator is unique; few if any poets can mimic his combination of language, style, rhythm, etc. in that one whereas many poets write in the manner of t ...more | |
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| It's a short story. It's grim but perhaps hopeful in its own way. I'm trying to compare the mood to that of another writer, and Raymond Carver comes to mind, but it's not exactly like that. It's certainly a good reminder of what life is actually like ...more | |
“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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