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David B. Lentz
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Woburn, Massachusetts, The United States
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
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Sonnets from New England: Love Songs
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2014
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The Fine Art of Grace
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2016
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The Day Trader: A Novel
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2000
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Bourbon Street: The Dreams of Aeneas in Dixie
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2002
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Novel Criticism: How to Critique Novels Like a Novelist
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2011
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Old Greenwich Odes: Collected Verse
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2010
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Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse
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2015
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The Silver King: A Novel
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1999
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For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel
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THE FINE ART OF GRACE: A NOVEL -- Chapter 1 by David B. Lentz
New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.
On this hot morning before the summer solstice I ride the A Train heading downtown.
The daunting and teeming map of the New York City Subway System is posted to confront me and do you know what I perceive with such clarity?
In the colored lines of the routes crisscrossing this map the veins and arte Read more of this blog post »
On this hot morning before the summer solstice I ride the A Train heading downtown.
The daunting and teeming map of the New York City Subway System is posted to confront me and do you know what I perceive with such clarity?
In the colored lines of the routes crisscrossing this map the veins and arte Read more of this blog post »
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“New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.”
― The Fine Art of Grace
― The Fine Art of Grace
“After vindictive winter, apple blossoms seem all the more heaven-sent.
Among flashing forsythia and budding rose, dogwood and daffodil,
The allure of magnolia, azalea and wisteria to lovers’ dreams are lent.
Resolve is recompense as seedtime’s blush dispenses with the chill,
How sweet-scented is New England now as winter tempests are through.
My darling girl, the divinest bloom in cherry blossom time just happens to be you.”
― Sonnets from New England: Love Songs
Among flashing forsythia and budding rose, dogwood and daffodil,
The allure of magnolia, azalea and wisteria to lovers’ dreams are lent.
Resolve is recompense as seedtime’s blush dispenses with the chill,
How sweet-scented is New England now as winter tempests are through.
My darling girl, the divinest bloom in cherry blossom time just happens to be you.”
― Sonnets from New England: Love Songs
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
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"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― Infinite Jest
“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never by conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
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Majenta wrote: "Hello, David! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and having a great Summer 2017. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes fr..."
Dear Majenta,
Thank you for your abundant good faith.
It is a rare and precious commodity.
Please stay in touch.
Cordially,
David
Hello, David! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and having a great Summer 2017. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thoughtful note from US Senator, Chris Murphy, from Connecticut after spending a day-off with a homeless man in New Haven and reading "Being and Homelessness" by John H. Sibley of Chicago. John and I collaborated on this book together. Here's the letter from Chris Murphy: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wordsw...
Dear Goodfriends,Our "Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time List" is now posted on Listopia for your voting:
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Thanks very much to the many Goodreaders who recommended stage plays for this wonderful list.
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