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Marcus Schantz

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in Springfield, The United States
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Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Fante, Bukowski, Lawrence, Anderson

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Marcus is a retired Chicago felony criminal trial attorney. He has published two novels, '.40 Cal Sayulita' and 'Concealed Carry.' He currently resides in Austin, Texas.

Marcus holds a Juris Doctor from the Northern Illinois University College of Law, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Marcus Schantz Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky; because of the destructive power of their love. In my book, Mexican Salmon, I tried to show that love on one hand can…moreAnna Karenina and Count Vronsky; because of the destructive power of their love. In my book, Mexican Salmon, I tried to show that love on one hand can be the best thing in life, but on the other hand love can destroy. Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky's love was so strong that through their love, they unalterably changed not only their lives, but others as well, such as Anna's son. Anna kills herself; Vronksy tries to kill himself--all because of love. (less)
Marcus Schantz When I get to a point in a story and I don't know what comes next, I usually go for a run or do something else other than write so that my subconsciou…moreWhen I get to a point in a story and I don't know what comes next, I usually go for a run or do something else other than write so that my subconscious can work on its own. (less)
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.40 Cal Sayulita

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Concealed Carry

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Mexican Salmon

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A Saturday in September

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A Mother's Son

         “You want to do what?”         “Rob this grocery store,” she said.          “Why? Are you hungry?”         “Nope, not at all,” she said and then lit a cigarette.          “Then why do you want to hold up a damn grocery store?”         She exhaled to her right, out the window, away from me. She knew the smoke bothered me. Just another little way she showed me that she loved me. “No one rob Read more of this blog post »
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Leo Tolstoy
“He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin. "But”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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