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L. Lambert Lawson

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in Mountain View, California, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Short Stories

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Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Chuck Palahniuk, Raymond Carver ...more

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L. Lambert lived and worked as a teacher of English with the Peace Corps in Ukraine from 2005 to 2007. When he wasn’t learning Ukrainian or observing pro-democracy political rallies, he was writing about his experiences.

His most recently published work, Running in Place: A Year in the Life and Letters of a Prisoner, is a collection of found poems culled from a year's correspondence L. Lambert had with a pen pal of his who is serving time in a federal penitentiary.

L. Lambert’s non-fiction work about his Peace Corps experience was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. As well, an excerpt of When a Lobster Whistles in the Mountains: A Peace Corps Honeymoon in Ukraine, will be published in Peace Corps at 50, a four volume collection of stories ...more

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	Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, wvthcomp (Narrator), Roger Clifton (Narrator) 3.68 avg rating — 32,101 ratings — published 1604 — 887 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
	Bronies: For the Love of Ponies 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	At Year's End 4.33 avg rating — 9 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
	Running in Place: A Year in the Life and Letters of a Prisoner 4.86 avg rating — 7 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
	Bards and Sages Quarterly Volume 6 Issue 2 April 2014 by Julie Ann Dawson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Buhmann, Michael Dunlop Young it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Bardic Tales and Sage Advice (Vol. 7) by Julie Ann Dawson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Thaxson Patterson II, Jamie Lackey (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
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“what animorph did you want to be? i wanted to be the boy who turned into the bird limp in the dog’s wet mouth, holding me toward his human saying, i made this for you.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

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