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GK Stritch is the author of CBGB WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL, a former contributor to BEATDOM.com (a literary journal devoted to the Beats—please visit Author Archives), and freelance writer with a background in English literature and publishing. New manuscript complete, but no place to go: ESCAPE FROM RED BANK. (Ms. Stritch enjoys drawing pets.)

"--great books, even halfway great books, even good books, even halfway good books, being so exceedingly rare . . . . if there was anything the human race had a sufficiency of, a sufficiency and a surfeit, it was books. When I thought of the cataracts of books, the Niagara of books, the rushing rivers of books, the oceans of books, the tons and truckloads and trainloads of books that were pouring off the pre ...more

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Cbgb Was My High School: A Rose Comes of Age on the Razor's Edge

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