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Brian Walter Budzynski

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Brian Budzynski earned his MFA from Roosevelt University, where he received the university's thesis award. He has worked for Dalkey Archive Press, Fiction Collective 2, Other Voices, American Book Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a writer and editor in various capacities. He lives in Illinois. ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 24 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Barn and the Castle

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The Remark

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013
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The Manse Calvo

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A Kind of Careful Brightness

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Straight Man by Richard Russo
Straight Man
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Made me laugh more than I expected. Hank does eventually wear out his welcome to some degree in the last 100 pages. I did do some skimming. Buttons up fairly well. The wife character was almost unnecessary, except to be the reason Hank doesn't actual ...more
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The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits
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More like 4.5. The editing and cadence here were interesting. The comma is forcing you to both slow down and consider what was saying, and also consider the way people actually speak as opposed to the careful curation of typical novelistic dialogue a ...more
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To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
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Sadly dropped this around pg. 80, despite it only being 176 pgs long. This is an example of a book very much of its time and unlikely to have ever seen the light of day had the author not already had a deservedly established reputation. It is disjoin ...more
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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This was ok; I suppose I might have been more compelled had I not seen the movie beforehand. I usually say the book is always so much better. But I have to admit there were certain areas here where I felt the screenplay of the movie was simply better ...more
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'Salem's Lot by Stephen  King
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Unbelievable, but I could not finish this. I think my main problem with it is that I didn’t find any of the characters not just relatable but believable. It’s funny because King is usually very good at making his people seem very real, very lived in. ...more
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The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why I have such a hard time with this book. I read Ford’s short stories in college and liked them. I read his memoir of his parents and even though I found it to be surprisingly redundant for less than 200 page ...more
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Monster Spotter's Guide to North America by Scott Francis
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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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This book presents the best and in some ways the worst of Hemingway’s tendencies. This descriptions of the cafés and walking the streets, and the people he ran into were all wonderful. I even liked the last section where they go to Austria for skiing ...more
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