It was only weeks ago that I'd retrieved my copy of Erik Erikson's Young Man Luther from my storage space; at that point, I'd been separated from the mass market paperback by seventeen years. This past week, thusly, when I ran across a sighting of it on page 173 of Across My Big Brass Bed by Gary Amdahl, I felt reunited again with Erikson's psychoanalytical portrait of a young man; it was one of my favorite assigned readings during my first year of college, one of the greatest reading years of my life. Other writers on that year's history list included Herodotus, Thucydides, Peter Laslett, Karl Marx, E. P. Thompson, and Edmund Wilson. Wilson's To the Finland Station remains one of the most gripping books I've ever read.
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
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In theory, a book isn't alive unless it's snuggled comfortably in the reading bin in the bathroom at Oprah's or any sitting Pres...
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Reading Little White Duck: A Childhood in China led me to Wuhan, China, a large sprawling city dissected by a huge river that Chairman Mao ...
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And Duffleman has the nerve to think he has problems! Is he a homeless man breaking into and reopening a bar? No. Is he earning over $10K a...
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I've been reading Zone by Mathias Enard, tired sometimes and spacing out, but always some vivid description or series of incisive fused...
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I stumbled upon a couple articles on Atlantic City's current casino "contraction," here and here , and it sounds like the bea...
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It's always a bit disappointing to see these somewhat simplistic articles get a shiny new website when my more developed and nuanced n...
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" Frade Killed Ellen " is featured at GoodKindles today and received a full review at Goodreads earlier in the week. Look ... -
Two articles on retail work in America recently caught my eye: here and here .
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Marcus Hayes, along with the comments that follow, pretty much sums up the brutality, angst, glory, forgiveness, sin, exploitation, joy, pai...
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Lavinia Ludlow's Single Stroke Seven drops on March 1, and I had a chance to ask her questions about the writing life, unaffordable ho...