Scott C. Holstad's Blog

• "The Continual Condition" - Bukowski's New Book

  November 15, 2009

  • I have long been a huge fan of Charles Bukowski.  Indeed, I've rarely -- if ever -- met a bigger fan, although I'm sure such exists.  I have a number of books, and a Bukowski t-shirt, he personally autographed for me when he was alive and we were corresponding.  When he died in March 1994, I was deeply saddened, although I'd known he'd been in the hospital, was in his 70s and his health was ...
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• My Favorite Bookstore

  November 6, 2009

  • My favorite bookstore.  Gosh, where to start?  I guess I’ll start at the top (my top, at least).I grew up admiring the Beats.  I seriously dug Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and the others, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti especially spoke to me.  Thus, as an avid reader, I read about Ferlinghetti opening his own bookstore in San Francisco a number of decades ago.  It was called City Lights.  City ...
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• My Wife's Illness

  October 6, 2009

  • I last wrote about my wife, Jennifer, and I celebrating our sixth anniversary in Asheville, NC.  That was close to a month ago.  I ended the blog post about my wife getting a giant migraine, thus ending the fun times on a difficult note.  Well, read on.My wife got worse, if that's possible.  Her headache pain was on a scale of 10/10.  She developed nausea and threw up regularly.  Her joints ...
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