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Jonathan Faia

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Jonathan Faia is a writer native to Southern California who came to maturity in the 1990s. Born in Fullerton, California in 1975, he spent the majority of his early adolescence in the arms of the Fullerton and Buena Park Public Libraries. Reading the works that would inspire and shape his life. Growing up in what modern culture referred to as, “Generation X” he spent his formative years in the 1990s attending college majoring in English Literature and honing his love for writing. Combining his “Gen X “ adolescence with his utter infatuation for “Beat Poetry” he authored the books, Wylde Serenity and Love Letters From Barstow. Both books are filled with poems whose elements include the indulgences of love, and the loneliness that comes from ...more

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Jonathan Faia During the writing of my latest book, Love Letters From Barstow I hit some serious writer's block about half way through. It was around that time I re…moreDuring the writing of my latest book, Love Letters From Barstow I hit some serious writer's block about half way through. It was around that time I reread Kurt Vonnegut's, Breakfast of Champions and that book gave me the courage to write again. It reminds that the voices in your head can be constructive.(less)
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Love Letters From Barstow

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Inside the Quiet Storm- How “Nutshell” Became Alice in Chains’ Most Human Confession

Inside the Quiet Storm: How “Nutshell” Became Alice in Chains’ Most Human Confession

Some songs enter our lives loud, undeniable, impossible to ignore. Others arrive the way grief does: quietly, slowly, without ceremony.

Alice in Chains’ “Nutshell” barely even whispers; it exhales. And in that soft, trembling breath, it has spent more than three decades binding itself to listeners in one of the

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