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THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

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Bill Wright!

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I’m no dummy.
•Savage Steve Holland, Better Off Dead (1985).

I realize now that…education does not eradicate prejudice, but intensifies it.
•Albion W. Tourgée, letter to Teddy Roosevelt (1901).

The school has been converted into the most dehumanizing institution that I have ever laid eyes upon, each child being treated as if he possessed a memory and the faculty of speech, no individuality, no sensibility, and no s...

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

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John Severin!

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

I also wrote a book for perverts

Back in the ’80s, Piers Anthony was a juggernaut of the SF section. His impressive back catalog and daunting new-release schedule guaranteed him a full shelf or two at your local B. Dalton. A coupl...

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

I write, for a living, books

I reason, that in Heaven—
Somehow it will be even—
Some new Equation given—
But, what of that?
•Emily Dickinson, #301 (c.1862).

God has a special math that doesn’t have anything to do with the mathematical system of the world.
•Jim Bakker,...

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

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George Tuska!

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Perhaps you like books?

The longest snake on earth breaks off after several meters.
Likewise, though at greater length, do fabled snakes.
The series comprising π
doesn’t stop at the edge of the sheet,
it can stretch across the table, through the air,
through the wall...

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Perhaps you like books?

I know I have a reputation as a grump, but I do think that 2004 was a good year for movies. Just think of some of the titles that did not make it on this top ten list—I won’t tire you with a string of honorable mentions, but man, there ar...

(TOMORROW! Noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, The Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton, CT! This is a righteous event, and I will be there and will you??!one!?)

BOOKS! THE KIND PEOPLE LIKE!

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Wendy Pini!

(Upcoming appearances: September 27, 12–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, The Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton, CT | October 16, 4–5, Mid-Hudson Reading Council, an undisclosed location in Poughkeepsie, NY | October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Read these books before The Unraveling*

*(entropic collapse)

Yeh, yeh—If I did no...