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Reviews I've Written

  • Armies of the Night

    March 4, 2008
    Armies of the night, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and/or On the Campaign Trail '72 are all enduring books, capturing the 1960's period from ground level, with insigh

  • Oswald's Tale

    February 21, 2008
    Norman Mailer was a long time supporter of a conspiracy theory as catalyst for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

  • A Beat in Review

    January 14, 2008
    Many of these poems I have not seen before, or, perhaps, having seen years before have forgotten.
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Comments I've Written

  • Magic in writing

    Our earliest literature is intertwined with magic. I would think this would include cave paintings and petroglyphs.

  • State of the Art

    Lest we forget, publishing is a business, and, as in many businesses, the product doesn't necessarily come first. Maxwell Perkins and Malcom Crowley are long gone.

  • Spelunking

    A good metaphor. Writing can certainly be compared to tunneling. But a writer - one as accomplished as Tobias Wolff - generally is wise enough to bring the proper tools along with him.

  • Outsider Poetry - Charles Bukowski?

    Bukowski was gifted - or lucky - in a limited way. He possessed the gift of gab, but reading his work I often feel as though as I'm reading the same piece over and over again.

  • Considering the role sex plays not just in our live but-

    throughout the world, and most likely the universe, and if there's a God then in it's existence, how could one possibly be bored by the topic.

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