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Joe’s 2025 Year in Books
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Joe Kraus
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"Wesley Brown writes about jazz like I dance about architecture: fucking fabulously. These loosely interconnected stories feature drop-ins and tight focuses on jazz between the Wars and immediately thereafter. As such, you get a killer's row of earlyi"
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I picked this up because I was so impressed with the skill of co-author Chuck Hogan in his novel, Gangland. I figured if a pro like that were partnering with one of our major directors, the result would have to be really good. Not really, though. I wou ...more |
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If this is the last novel Pynchon ever writes, it’s a pretty good send-off, one that marries his classic Nobel-prize-level work with the looser noir parodies of his more recent years. I’ll confess at the start that I often lose track of the plot in Py ...more |
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If this is the last novel Pynchon ever writes, it’s a pretty good send-off, one that marries his classic Nobel-prize-level work with the looser noir parodies of his more recent years. I’ll confess at the start that I often lose track of the plot in Py ...more |
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I’m part of this anthology, so I’m biased, but I do really enjoy it. What’s more, I love the model that Raconteur Press is following with this and their other releases. Above all, this strikes me as a modern-day answer to the Black-Mask era of the ori ...more |
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This is a bleak, ambitious novel about loss and language, one that earns the glimpse of hope for rebirth that we see only at the very end. It’s also further evidence that Richard Flanagan is probably the most gifted novelist writing today. The Foley f ...more |
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| This one had me at the title. I realized I didn’t know that much about either Bruneschelli or Ghiberti, and that seemed a problem for someone who wants to know as much about the Renaissance as possible. If a feud set much of early modern thought in m ...more | |
“You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?”
― The Ghosts of Belfast
― The Ghosts of Belfast
“"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."”
― Glitz
― Glitz
“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing
1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. ”
― Loitering with Intent
― Loitering with Intent
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