Hugh Blanton's review of Fight for Your Long Day

Hugh Blanton's thoughts on Fight for Your Long Day arrive after his consideration of Auggie's Revenge.

#fridayreads: 9/11 edition

Fight for Your Long Day is more of a War on Terror than 9/11 novel, but I'm sure that the good folks at interlibrary loan would want you to access a copy. If purchases are more to your pleasure, then shipped paperback copies of Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day remain available at reasonable prices. There are also affordable copies of Auggie's Revenge at Apple Books, on eBay, and for Kindle as well as at Bookshop and Smashwords.

#fridayreads redux

Shipped paperback copies of Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day remain available at reasonable prices. There are also affordable copies of Auggie's Revenge at Apple Books, on eBay, and for Kindle as well as at Bookshop and Smashwords.

beach reads

Enjoy the sun with a novel or two unless an eclectic mix of poetry and fiction suits you.

This is not the signed copy linked to above.

Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day at affordable prices

Why pay less when spending more is so easy and free? Right. In other words, if anyone would like a shipped paperback copy of Auggie's Revenge or Fight for Your Long Day, the internet may be able to deliver. There are also affordable copies of Auggie's Revenge at Abebooks, Apple Books and for Kindle, as well as at Bookshop and Smashwords, too.

two for one

I'm excited to announce that this fall, Rick Harsch's Corona\Samizdat Press will publish as one volume the corrected version of Fight for Your Long Day and the sequel to my debut novel. What further adventures await Cyrus Duffleman? Is our adjunct hero even alive?

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affordable copies available online

At eBay, we found affordable new copies of Auggie's Revenge as well as fine or near fine copies of the first edition of Fight for Your Long Day. Other sellers offer new and used copies of each novel.

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the American Dream

"For what we get in Fight For Your Long Day is a very much street-level view of Duff’s (and Kudera’s) much beloved and fretted-over hometown of Philadelphia circa 2000-and-something, and while the picture is hardly a pretty one, it is a keenly-felt one for all that. Our man Duff really does worry about the many of its citizens who somehow fall several (or more) rungs below him on the various, supposedly meritocratic, but shyster-led-and-bred ladders of the American Dream."

Everything

"One important Other Thing about the Duffler is his intense, even completely nutso, levels of self-scrutiny: it’s as if he dictated the entirety of auto-scrutor par excellence Ignatius of Loyola’s notoriously fastidious Spiritual Exercises to himself in a brief chat in some under-the-tracks diner somewhere in the heart of Philly’s supposed no-go (or, for the Duff, don’t-go-gently) zones, for our Man is nothing in this novel if not self-conscious in every dimension imaginable—and usually quite guiltily so as well, as if his entire life were this one Platonic Long Day (which it very much is, avec initial caps as in the novel), and that Day’s spiritual forebears were the Jewish family of Annie Hall gathering on some perpetual Day of Atonement not because anyone but themselves has told them to, but because they simly, unavoidably feel unspecified, pervasive, transcendental Guiltand—and so simply are somehow guilty of, well, Everything."

a new review

Consider W.D. Clarke's review of Fight for Your Long Day.

first edition

A few "as new" copies of Fight for Your Long Day's first edition appear to be floating around the web.

"Funny as hell"

In fact, dear reader, hell is no laughing matter, and we may need to protect the masses by censoring your words.

the nine who like you will tell one

My experience has been that the old adage from sales very much relates to current ratings and reviews of books. For every ten customers, the nine who like your product will likely tell one person each whereas the one person who dislikes your goods or services may well tell ten people. For ratings and reviews, readers often react in a similar manner although online visibility can lead to far more distortion than word of mouth. It is not only for this reason that I am grateful for last week's five-star review.

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American Book Review

"Kudera's intimate understanding of the stressors placed on adjunct faculty members on any day, but especially their long day, is powerful. Throughout the development of the novel, Duffleman takes on many different identities as he puts on the hats of different universities, deals with the demands of the students, and faces the unplanned situations that happen on a college campus."

Internet Archive

I already feel more archived and lent.

"a poetic love letter"

Another review of Auggie's Revenge awaits your attention.

Amazon reviews

Amazon has new reviews of Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day: "Kudera is a darn fine writer, worthy to be read on the level of the sentence."