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Louis Arata

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Louis Arata is a writer and actor from the Chicago area, not something he planned in advance but seems to be working nicely for him. He grew up in northern Virginia, just outside of DC, then attended high school and college in West Virginia. The day after graduating Shepherd University, he headed to the Second City.

Various jobs over the years have included selling classified ads, formatting questionnaires, debriefing former gang members, handing out stipend checks, and designing databases.

He is the author of Dead Hungry, a novel about Ghouls in modern-day Chicago. His other work includes two plays: A Careful Wish, a play about Christmas, possible miracles, and other family dysfunction; and Come Undone, about a young man dealing with the ma ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 14 ratings · 11 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Dead Hungry 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 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
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	Never Land 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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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The Top Ten Books (I've Read) in 2024

My local library has shelves featuring recently published books as well as several tables where books are grouped by themes. About 20% of the books I read this year were discovered while perusing these stacks. It wasn’t like I was looking for a book on housecleaning or a novel about a piece of lung which becomes a monster. I didn’t have an eye out for a sci-fi retelling of the legend of Orpheus or

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Sitting with Dogs: Stories of Rescue Dogs Going from Lost to Loved

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Overeaters Anonymous

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Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980

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Louis’s Quotes

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― George Orwell

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