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Jon Sindell

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Jon Sindell's new novel, The Pugilist Poets of Venice, launched in October of 2019. This musical vid gives you a feel for the tone and content of the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsCr...

Paperback, ebook, and audiobook editions are available on Amazon.

Jon's long-story collection, Family Happiness—so elusive, so ideal—was published by Big Table in 2016. His flash fiction collection, The Roadkill Collection, was published by the same house in 2014. A specially abridged audio edition of The Roadkill Collection is now available on Amazon, iTunes, and Audible.

Jon writes fiction (quite truthful), humor (intentionally, often), and essays (not graded, thankfully). Many of Jon's shorter works may be seen at jonsindell.com.

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The Mighty Roman

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The Pugilist Poets of Venice

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The Roadkill Collection

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Family Happiness

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"The Dirtbag at the Gym," a short from The Roadkill Colle...

"The Dirtbag at the Gym," a short from The Roadkill Collection about a Facebook pile on, was just nominated for inclusion in Queens Ferry Press's 2015 short fiction anthology.

The Roadkill Collection: forty–nine shorts that leave burning rubber all over the road. Available here.


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“The great thing about baseball is, I've heard a hundred statements beginning, 'The great thing about baseball is.”
Jon Sindell

“I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me a kraut! Do you know what kraut is? It’s sauerkraut, men! Which means pickled cabbage! And no one likes that! And I’m okay with it! You can call me Kraut, for all that I care! I don’t give a god damn! Do you read me, men? Do you? ~ Roman Meister, manager of the San Carlos Coyotes, to three black ballplayers whom he has, cleverly he thinks, nicknamed "Dark Chocolate," "Milk Chocolate," and "Bitter Chocolate." From The Mighty Roman.”
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“It’s funny, Matt, everyone thinks Roman’s a nickname--but it’s not, it's just my name. We've got military names way back in our clan. I've got Great-Granddad Grant and Great Uncle Sherman and Uncle MacArthur and Cousin Audie and Cousin Achilles. No," he mused, "Roman's not a nickname. A nickname would be–oh, I don’t know, something like ... Caesar or something! The mighty Roman! ~ Roman Meister, nickname-loving manager of the San Carlos Coyotes in The Mighty Roman, broadly hinting for a nickname of his own.”
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“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
Mark Twain

“Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
My love should kindle to inflamed respect.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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