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Peter Anderson
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Daddy Cool
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Wheatyard
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On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work
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Where The Marshland Came To Flower
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I can’t really fault a book for not being what I wanted it to be, so I’ll still give this book four stars because it’s well-written and well-argued. But I wanted this to be much more about the New York milieu of the midcentury Abstract Expressionists
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Another excellent overview of the Expressionists—this has better narrative than Norbert Wolf’s book, but not as many color images, so it’s a tossup between the two. This one did give me a stronger sense of who the Brucke artists were, versus the Blau
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Funny as hell in spots, though it loses steam at the end. (Stones jokes are timeless, but Pulp? Hardly.) I also would have preferred only half as many jokes about Bowie, Eno and Morrissey (all fishes in barrels), though admittedly one of the funniest
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“The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
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The Next Best Book Club
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Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more
Word Riot Press
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For fans of online literary magazine Word Riot and its small press extension Word Riot Press
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The Underrated Authors Project 2013
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Now, I am not sure if this has been done before, so I apologise if this already exists (I'd be surprised if it hasn't). I wanted to make a group dedic ...more
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Alternating Current Press
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Apr 22, 2013 12:02PM
Hi Pete. Please consider reading/rating my new memoir The Astor Orphan. Thanks, Alexandra
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Jason wrote: "Welcome, Pete. What took ye so long?"No good excuse, really. It's not like I'm at all averse to online pursuits that distract me from my work.