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Kurt Gottschalk

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Born

in Jacksonville, IL, The United States

Website

http://spearmintmusic.blogspot.com/

Genre

Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Jim Thompson, ...more

Member Since

June 2011

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Kurt Gottschalk moved to New York City in 1993 and earned a Master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. He has written about arts and politics for All About Jazz, Signal to Noise, Time Out-New York, The Village Voice, The Wire and publications in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Russia. He has twice been recognized for "best feature writing" by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalist. He also hosts the Miniature Minotaur radio show on WFMU. ...more

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Another Sentence About "Sentences"

Quirky, humorous, occasionally whimsical and often thought provoking, [Sentences] is both a quick and slow page turner simultaneously, meant in a good way.

- Len37, Ecstasy Mule

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Average rating: 4.42 · 19 ratings · 5 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Little Apples: A Story Cycle 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011	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
	Sentences 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	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
	Burning Ambulance 1: Winter 2010 by Stephen Haynes, Kurt Gottschalk (Goodreads Author), Philip Freeman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	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
	Burning Ambulance 3: Winter 2010/2011 by Kurt Gottschalk (Goodreads Author), Hank Shteamer, Justin Farrar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	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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Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-Binary In Experimental Music

by Fanny Chiarello

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Anthony Braxton – 50+ Years of Creative Music: Special volume of Contributions of New Music from Darmstadt. Edition séparée.

by Timo Hoyer

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Group Portrait with Lady

by Heinrich Böll

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
― John Cage

tags: music

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