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Alan Kaufman "Unusual, profound, simple, brutal, idiosyncratic"-David Mamet/ "Wonder and awe"--Hubert Selby Jr.

Alan Kaufman's Blog

How I Came To Write The Novel 'MATCHES'
February 4, 2008
- Many readers who know me only as a poet and memoirist may be rather surprised to learn that my first full-length fictional effort is about Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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On Hubert Selby Jr., The Greatest Post-War American Writer
February 4, 2008
- "God and the Devil are struggling for the soul of man," Dostoyevsky wrote, "and the battleground is the human heart." That could well summarize the oeuvre of Brooklyn-born Hubert Selby Jr., who died i
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A Brief Note On Beat Gravitas
February 4, 2008
- Irreverence, not piety, seems like the perfect sentiment to characterize the Beats.
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Media

A novel that artfully and viscerally conveys the emotional toll of contemporary warfare's random terror.

Meet The Author/Alan Kaufman on his novel 'MATCHES"

Published Works


Matches	Jew Boy	The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
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Published Reviews

From BOOKLIST by BOOKLIST
From Publishers Weekly by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Saved By The Word by Front Page San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Outlaws Get Poetic Justice In Anthology: 'Bible' Mixes Beats with Lesser known Poets, Writers by San Francisco Chronicle
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature"The Rebel Establishment by Cover, Sunday New York TImes Book Review
For Love Of Another Country by Front page of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review