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Carl Stevens

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in Shelbyville, IN, The United States

Website

http://www.carlstevenswriter.com

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Humor and Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery

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terry pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, John Barth

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Jack London lamented that he had spent his life as a working class intellectual rubbing shoulders with the underprivileged on tramp steamers, in gold mining camps, on wharves and in warehouses while reading extensively and writing books of serious social and philosophical merit only to be renowned for writing about dogs. It irked him yet inspired me decades later. Eighteen-wheelers, psych wards, factory floors and the halls of academia and corporate America may not be perfect matches to London’s, but they have all been part of my own working class adventures. I have lived in numerous careers the fiction that each was intrinsically important while in fact each was merely research for the role of Carl Stevens, Writer.

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This is what I read or watched intentionally as background while I was writing The Canterbury Tales in Neverland.
All thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays and his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. I read or re-read all of them and watched film versions of all the plays in one year of preparation. Several of the characters (Casavero, Timothy, and Horatio most obviously) are i Read more of this blog post »

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	The Time Traveler's Fool: A Psychological Mystery of Literary Survival 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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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	The Charging Bull of Terry County: A Meditation on War and Peace 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	They Call Me Merlin Sherlock it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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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The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time, #5)

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