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Jim Booth

Goodreads Author

Born

in Eden, NC, The United States

Website

http://www.jimboothauthor.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Music, Young Adult

Influences

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway ...more

Member Since

June 2012

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Jim Booth is Professor of English and Writing at the University of Maryland University College. He holds bachelor and master's degrees from UNC-Greensboro and a doctorate in writing and the teaching of writing from the University at Albany (SUNY).

A former touring rock musician, Jim currently operates his own independent record label, Goat Boy Records.

Jim is a fiction writer and the author of The New Southern Gentleman (Wexford College Press, 2002), Morte D'Eden, or Tom Sawyer Meets the Rolling Stones (Beach House Books, 2003), and Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star (Queen's Ferry Press, 2012). Jim also serves as fiction/nonfiction editor for Scholars and Rogues Literary Journal.

Jim's story "Fat Annie" ...more

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Jim Booth's Blog

Revisiting: Sinclair Lewis Imagines American Dictatorship: It Can’t Happen Here…Can It…?

“More and more, as I think about history…I am convinced that everything that is worthwhile in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system, whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.” – Do

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Average rating: 3.55 · 11 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works

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Jim’s Quotes

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: argument, contraries

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Jim’s Groups

Black Bear Book Club — 13 members — last activity May 31, 2014 08:44PM
An online bookclub to discuss great literature. In-store bookclub meetings are always an option, just let the moderator know.

Queen's Ferry Press — 12 members — last activity Sep 20, 2012 01:12PM
Queen's Ferry Press publishes collections of literary fiction. ...more

Ashe Library Winter Reading Challenge — 32 members — last activity Feb 28, 2013 07:29PM
Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? Do you have a hard time deciding what you want to read next? Are you in a reading rut and ...more

Second Wind Publishing — 538 members — last activity Sep 22, 2013 02:33PM
Second Wind Publishing, LLC, is an independent press that produces quality novels by talented storytellers with readable, distinctive voices. http://s ...more

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