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Timothy Gager

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Bestselling Author, Timothy Gager has published 20 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his fourth novel, Shadows of the Seen, and his most recent book of poetry, Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 19 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio.

In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 175 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager.

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Say "Hi" to me in Baltimore, Philly, and NY

 Next Three and where I'll be at AWP in Baltimore, then Philly, then NY. Old friends and Dire acquaintances, I will have time to hang out!




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“Don't waste life's time.”
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“There are no birds in a formation to cut the wind, so when you fly on your own, the struggle is yours alone and you must be stronger than those in a flock. The wind blows hard. Fly.”
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“And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing. That's my spiel.”
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“Don't waste life's time.”
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“There are no birds in a formation to cut the wind, so when you fly on your own, the struggle is yours alone and you must be stronger than those in a flock. The wind blows hard. Fly.”
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

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Timothy Carly wrote: "Hey Famous Author-I would LOVE a review from you on here. Consider adding my new memoir to your reading list! Seconds and Inches by Carly Israel"


Of course, I will


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Carly Israel Hey Famous Author-I would LOVE a review from you on here. Consider adding my new memoir to your reading list! Seconds and Inches by Carly Israel


Timothy Lea wrote: "Thanks for the invite -- nice to meet you!"


Nice to meet you too!


Timothy Lavinia wrote: "popped your comment cherry! I feel special. And a little guilty. ha. kidding.

If you win that book, that means the planets would have aligned."


I always wonder what happens after the planets align?


Lavinia Ludlow popped your comment cherry! I feel special. And a little guilty. ha. kidding.

If you win that book, that means the planets would have aligned.


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