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Michael Goldberg

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in Oakland, The United States

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http://truelovescars.com

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Contemporary, Music, Humor and Comedy

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Jack Kerouac, John Fante, Bob Dylan,

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My second novel, The Flowers Lied, a rock 'n' roll coming-of-age story, is now available. It's the second book in the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0990...

"If Lester Bangs had ever published a novel it might have read like this frothing debut..." – Rolling Stone

“Radioactive as Godzilla" – legendary rock critic Richard Meltzer

“Kerouac in the 21st Century.” – Jack Kerouac biographer Dennis McNally

“Penned in a staccato amphetamine grammar…” – Simon Warner, author of "Text And Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll: The Beats And Rock Culture"

“Holden Caulfield meets Lord Buckley?” – founder of The Realist Paul Krassner

And so is my first novel, True Love Scars.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 61 ratings · 24 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	True Love Scars 3.84 avg rating — 31 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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Michael Goldberg's Blog: The Flowers Lied

Simon Warner Reviews 'The Flowers Lied': 'Beat spontaneity meets punk insolence'

Great review by author Simon Warner, who wrote the excellent “Text and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture.”

Beat Spontaneity Meets Punk Insolence

By Simon Warner

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Delivered in a sparky, yet splintered, patois, falling somewhere between Beat spontaneity and punk insolence, Michael Goldberg's The Flowers Lied picks up where 2014’s True Love Scars left off, as the second part of the Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 29, 2016 15:44 • Tags: michael-goldberg, neumu-press, novel, the-flowers-lied, true-love-scars

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