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Jeffrey Luscombe
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Hamilton, Canada
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March 2011
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https://www.goodreads.com/jeffreyluscombe
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Shirts and Skins
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2012
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To Refrain from Embracing
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Truth or Dare
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2011
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"DNF. I got to 41%. Usually if i get this far with a book I finish but I was just tired of wasting my time on the mindless drivel which made up for “content” in this book. The main character basically answered any question by saying “okay.” Sometimes,"
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"As Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Love this because Zola is one my favourite authors and I’ve been called Zolaesque (one of my best compliments) because of how I use naturalism, specif
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"Beautifully written with lots of intertwined stories of damaged working class people in the 1970s Hamilton, ON. Made me quite angry at times as many characters seem to deliberately make the wrong choices. All the time. From the day they were born… As"
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Hi Janet! Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to write a review! That’s a great question about Hamilton streets and naming of landmarks lik
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― The Awakening, and Selected Stories
― The Awakening, and Selected Stories
“Resist much, obey little.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
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Seems to have been while since I posted. I have a new novel, To Refrain From Embracing. It's been getting some good reviews. To Refrain from Embracing
Started reading Jonathan Franzen's Purity. Been waiting a long time for this! 
I dumped my underpants for a naked bookclub.
Read my full Globe and Mail article here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/f...
Thanks for becoming a friend on GR. Have a wonderful weekend. :)
There is still a few more hours to enter my SHIRTS AND SKINS giveaway!
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Here is my latest Xtra Magazine article on travel/reading/half naked men. Yes, I did find someone reading my novel, Shirts and Skins, on board :)
Click here for article: http://dailyxtra.com/travel/the-atlan...
My novel, Shirts and Skins, made the top of the list of 'hottest reads for summer'.
Read full list here: http://digital.hotspotsmagazine.com/i...
Here I am at the top of the list in this weekend's CBC article on Hamilton literature. Read full article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilto... #HamOnt #Pride #ShirtsAndSkins
Just chatting with the CBC about using Hamilton, Ontario as a setting for my novel. Here is a list of Goodreads books set in Hamilton. You can vote on your favourites (like mine, Shirts and Skins) ;)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
J.P. wrote: "Hey, Jeffrey. I was very happily surprised that your book Shirts and Skins was on my new cart at the library where I work (Lexington, KY) today. Very excellent! Can't wait to read it! :)"Hey J.P.!
I'm really excited that my book is available in KY. Let me know what you think of it.
Jeffrey
What's the matter with Kansas? Nothing! Now that my novel, Shirts and Skins, is in the Wichita Public Library! Can marriage equality be far behind now, Kansas? 
In Chicago? Yep, my novel, Shirts and Skins, is in the Chicago Public Library now too! Thanks to those who are suggesting it to their local libraries! http://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/it...
Jeffrey Luscombe In Philadelphia? Yep, my book, Shirts and Skins is available at the Philadelphia Public Library now too! Thanks to those who are suggesting it to their local libraries! 
This is a first. Was recognized in the steam room of my gym by a guy who had been to one of my Shirts and Skins readings.
There is still a few more hours left to enter a chance to win a copy of my novel, Shirts and Skins!!https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Nice to see Shirts and Skins is now in the Sacramento and Nashville Public Libraries. A big thanks to those who suggested it to their local libraries!Shirts and Skins is now in the Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver, Ottawa, Brantford, Thunder Bay, Halifax, Sacramento, Nashville, Dallas, San Francisco and Delaware OH Public Libraries!
Looking forward to your reviews and gifs, Marco!Marco wrote: "Thanks for the friendvite, Jeffrey!
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My interview with Greg Ross of Hamilton Life about my novel, Shirts and Skins. See full interview here: http://youtu.be/gL4ryRn8JI8
Can you see what this cruiser (with great taste in literature) is reading? Yes, it's my book, Shirts and Skins. #AtlantisCruise #ShirtsAndSkins 
You can see me discuss my novel, Shirts and Skins, with Hamilton Life TV show.http://youtu.be/gL4ryRn8JI8
Just finished a really fun chat about my book, Shirts and Skins, with Richard Ryder at Proud FM in Toronto. 
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year! All the best for 2014!
Jeffrey
A few photos from Saturday's "Hot Authors and Warm Drinks" signing at Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto. They have a few copies left if you are looking for stocking stuffers! 
Me last night at the Hamilton Literary Arts Awards.
Richard wrote: "Hey Jeffrey, I will be waiting to see how everything turns out. BTW, one of the other novels shortlisted is A Private Man which I recommended to you, and which also talks about th..."
Thanks, Richard!
Hey Jeffrey, I will be waiting to see how everything turns out. BTW, one of the other novels shortlisted is A Private Man which I recommended to you, and which also talks about the Evelyn Dick case! Who'd a thunk it?
The competition seems fierce, but I wish you lots of luck!
Looking forward to the Hamilton Literary Arts Award ceremony tomorrow where my novel, Shirts and Skins, was shortlisted!
http://hamiltonartscouncil.ca/blog/20...
At last Sunday's Palm Springs Pride Festival signing books with Lori Duron, author of the brilliant "Raising My Rainbow, Adventures in Raising A Fabulous, Gender Creative Son".
Planning on being in Palm Springs next weekend for Pride? I will be at the Author's Village selling and signing books. Come by and say hi! 
Great news! My novel, Shirts and Skins, is a finalist for a Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award.http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/...
A few photos from my hometown reading of Shirts and Skins last week!
TONIGHT!
Jeffrey Luscombe comes home for his first HPL reading of Shirts and Skins, the critically acclaimed novel of a young man's coming out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms with his family and fate in the east end of Hamilton during the 70's and 80's.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Kenilworth Branch
103 Kenilworth Avenue North
L8H 4R6
http://www.hpl.ca/articles/author-jef...
All set for tomorrow's reading of Shirts and Skins at The Kenilworth Branch of The Hamilton Public Library in #HamOnt!
Me chatting with Margaret Atwood today about my reading this Thursday to a hometown crowd. She suggested I read "Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame" 
Luscombe comes home for his first HPL reading of Shirts and Skins, the critically acclaimed novel of a young man's coming out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms with his family and fate in the east end of Hamilton during the 70's and 80's.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Kenilworth Branch
103 Kenilworth Avenue North
L8H 4R6
http://www.hpl.ca/articles/author-jef...
Just a few more hours to get in on my Shirts and Skins giveaway! http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Signing copies of Shirts and Skins at the Fierté littéraire booth at Montreal Pride! 
A couple of photos of my Montreal Pride reading of Shirts and Skins at Argo Bookshop. Thanks to all who came!
This will be a busy Saturday in Montreal! I will be signing copies of Shirts and Skins at the Fierté littéraire booth at Fierté Montréal Pride this Saturday Aug17 from 1-4pm. Then my reading is at Argo Bookshop at 7pm.
I will be doing a reading of Shirts and Skins at Argo Bookshop in Montreal for Fierté Montréal Pride next Saturday August 17th at 7pm. Come by if you're in town!
Hamilton-born author Jeffrey Luscombe comes home for his first Hamilton Public Library reading of Shirts and Skins, the critically-acclaimed novel of a young man’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms with his family and fate in the east end of Hamilton during the 70s and 80s. The author will also hold a question and answer session after the reading. Copies of Shirts and Skins will be available for purchase. Kenilworth Branch, Hamilton Public Library
103 Kenilworth Avenue North
Hamilton, Ontario
L8H 4R6
Thursday, 19 September 2013
7:00pm-8:00pm
My Provincetown reading. A great time and a great turnout! 
Jeffrey meeting Armistead Maupin in Provincetown
Jeffrey and Jeffrey in Queen's Park. Read the article here: http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/...
Jeffrey wrote: "Today's piece about my novel Shirts and Skins (and me) in today's Hamilton Spectator:http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/..."
Jeffrey, I read the article! It was well written, with no typos! :)
Today's piece about my novel Shirts and Skins (and me) in today's Hamilton Spectator:http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/...
Happy birthday to French writer Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922). Those who have read Shirts and Skins may have notice I payed homage to Proust (specifically the narrator meeting Robert de Saint-Loup in the barracks at Doncières in Guermantes Way) in my own novel. — 
Photo from yesterday's signing at the Eaton Centre Indigo. A big thanks to all that came by!
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