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Keith Taylor was born in British Columbia in 1952. He spent his childhood in Alberta and his adolescence in Indiana. After several years of traveling, he moved to Michigan, where he earned his M.A. in English at Central Michigan University. He has worked as a camp-boy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. For more than twenty years he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then he taught in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at the University of Michigan, and directed the Bear River Writers Con ...more

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	Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Keith Taylor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Kasischke, Steve Amick 3.51 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	If the World Becomes So Bright (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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
	The Bird-While (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — 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
	Marginalia for a Natural History 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	What Can the Matter Be? (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — 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
	Guilty at the Rapture 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	All the Time You Want 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	Life Science and Other Stories 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	Let Them Be Left: Isle Royale Poems 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	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
	Ecstatic Destinations 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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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Keith Taylor rated a book really liked it More Than Enough by John Fulton	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
Fulton has kept at it, and this early book feels a little overwrought now. Still, the story sticks in my mind, and its view of the family still rings true. Here's a thing I wrote many years ago: John Fulton is on a roll. Last year, just out of the U-M ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book really liked it The Flounder: And Other Stories by John Fulton	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
A memorable collection of short stories that ranges widely across different locations and through different lives. Perhaps most of them deal with men coming to terms with the inevitable issues of their roles in families, even in societies. I did find ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book it was amazing Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos (Goodreads Author)	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
Both jacket copy and some of the reviews here like to use the word "haunting." That doesn't seem quite right to me. Someone else used the word "day-dream," and that seems closer. But I think a better word to describe the atmosphere of this good read ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book it was amazing The Patient Body: A Personal Narrative in Pieces by Sebastian Matthews	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
This is the third volume of short prose pieces that deals with the author's recovery from a horrendous automobile accident, one where he and his family almost all died. But this is different. The earlier volumes dealt with the physical pain and the h ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book it was amazing Inferno (A Poet's Novel) by Eileen Myles	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
Sure it's a grab-bag of Myles' life in a particular moment, and a picture of the post-punk years in the arts community of NYC -- the sexual and literary adventures. But that's what I was looking for, and I found it an easy read into that world. She j ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book it was amazing What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	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
Not that this novel needs my support to find its audience, but I want to add my voice to the chorus of praise for it. McEwen has never been afraid of the big ideas, and here he takes on several. Climate change, apocalyptic planetary change, what hist ...more
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Keith Taylor and 1 other person liked Ava Butzu's review of Flashlight: "On the surface, "Flashlight" seems to be a straightforward story of an unhappy family of three. Serk is an ethnic Korean who was raised in Japan and emigrated to the United States as an adult. His future wife, Anne, is a bit hard-boiled on the surfac" Read more of this review »
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Of course, Greenblatt has to speculate about Marlowe, because there are so few records. He recognizes this in his notes, and confesses to all the times he has to use "perhaps," even "Maybe." But that's OK. He does a great job getting down a sense of ...more
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Keith Taylor and 1 other person liked Ava Butzu's review of Let Us Descend: "It was more than 700 miles. That's how long the main character of "Let Us Descend" had to walk in captive ropes from a North Carolina rice plantation to the notorious slave market in New Orleans. And even then, the horrors of descending are only half" Read more of this review »
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Keith Taylor liked Vicki's review of Appleseed: "In Matt Bell's Science Fiction tale, the planet has become hostile to human life. Greed and overuse are both issues in this story as well as in our current world. An interesting mix of science and fiction, along the topics of recycling, work farms, a" Read more of this review »
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