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Dan Riley

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in Springfield, MA, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Humor, Nonfiction

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Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, Bob Dylan, Norman O. Brown, Tom Robbins ...more

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Dan Riley has been writing seriously ever since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 focused his boyish attention on his mortality. Since then, he's edited his school, college and local underground newspapers; written obituaries for the oldest newspaper in continuous publication in the US; and produced ad copy and corporate boilerplate. His five books published with Houghton Mifflin include The Red Sox Reader and The Dan Riley School for Girl: An Adventure in Home Schooling. And his play, Spinelli, was a winner of The Long Beach Playhouse's New Works Competition. His weekly blog, The Nobby Works, is dedicated to keeping the writing of Norman O. Brown linked to the times. He's happy to have lived long enough to see the launch of his first novel, ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 103 ratings · 17 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Red Sox Reader 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virgin Missile Crisis 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yankees Reader by Dan Riley (Goodreads Author), Miro Weinberger (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now Playing Black Panther 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dodgers Reader 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dan Riley School for a Girl: An Adventure in Home Schooling 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Deflategate Conspiracy: A Farce of our Times 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Look Before You Lean 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Recasting James Dean for his Birthday

Me and my James Dean memorial stamp.
First, thanks to soul sister Sheila O’ Malley for reminding me that today would be James Dean’s 91st birthday. I was only 9 when Dean’s first feature East of Eden was shown at our local theater…10 when Rebel Without a Cause was. Seems real young when I think about it, but through those two films Dean made an indelible impression on me, as witness by this pa Read more of this blog post »

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Bob Dylan in America

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“From The Red Sox Reader:
"The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers.”
― Dan Riley

tags: red-sox, yankees

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“From inside Marty LaRosa's home:
"Ahh, nobody's gonna blow up nothin'," Armand declared with a wave of his hand. "The bastards at the top are havin' too much fun screwin' over the little guy to blow it all up.”
― Dan Riley

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“From inside The White House:
Baby food. Dead nurses. Nervous tittering filled the room.”
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“There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body”
― Norman O. Brown

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message 1: by L

Oct 28, 2012 01:32AM

Dear Dan,
Thank you so much for being my friend here on GoodReads. I concider myself extremely privaliged to have had the oportunity of reading one of your brilliant books, hence i very much look forward to reading more of your work in the future. Thanks once again.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x

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