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Eddie Vega

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Born

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

Book of Job, Ernest Hemingway, Celine, Arthur Rimbaud, The Beats. ...more

Member Since

January 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/eddievega

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A former merchant seaman, Eddie Vega is a Cuban-born writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous news and literary venues, among them The Washington Post, The New York Law Journal, Parnassus, Little Havana Blues, and Cool Salsa. His poem "Translating My Grandfather's House" has become a standard reading assignment in many primary schools across the U.S. and is showcased on the Web site of the Philadelphia Historical Society. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Columbia University in English literature, creative writing, and journalism. He lives in New York City and currently serves as head editor of Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime Fiction. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 232 ratings · 31 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Noir Nation No. 1 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Awake Now, Sailor 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Noir Nation No. 2 by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Nette (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.78 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
	Noir Nation No. 8: International Crime Fiction Journal by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), Ava Black (Goodreads Author), Erika Nichols-Frazer 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	A Marine at the Door 3.50 avg rating — 6 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
	Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime Fiction No. 6: The Jazz Issue by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), Gary Phillips, J.C. Hopkins 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	Noir Nation No. 7: The Golden Fedora Poetry Prize Issue by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), Deborah Pintonelli, J.J. Toner (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Jihad and its Metaphors by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), George Beck, Bianca Bellová 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Noir Nation No. 4: International Crime Fiction by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Sturak (Goodreads Author), Marina Perezagua really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Noir Nation No. 7: The Golden Fedora Poetry Prize Issue by Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author), J.J. Toner (Goodreads Author), Barbie Wilde (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust, and brutality--how did it happen that, from all of this, there should come Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede, the Moralia of Gregory the Great, St. Augustine's City of God, and his Trinity, the writings of Anselm, St. Bernard's sermons on the Canticles, the poetry of Caedmon and Cynewulf and Langland and Dante, St. Thomas' Summa, and the Oxoniense of Duns Scotus?

How does it happen that even today a couple of ordinary French stonemasons, or a carpenter and his apprentice, can put up a dovecote or a barn that has more architectural perfection than the piles of eclectic stupidity that grow up at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campuses of American universities?”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

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