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The 5 Best Kurt Vonnegut Books

by Tony Shea December 18, 2019

Writing 14 novels between 1952 and 1997, Kurt Vonnegut established a legacy as one of the great writers of the 20thy century, crafting a literary style that was utterly unique, fusing science-fiction with satire, as he examined the themes of power and control, free will, determinism, genocide, madness and war. Oh, and he was funny, […]

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Dusty Bookshelf – CRASH – 1973 – J.G. Ballard

by Tony Shea December 18, 2019

Now that I live in New York, I imagine I will have more time for reading, since the Fall and Winter seasons promise to be dark and rainy and cold (thank goodness), as opposed to the perpetually sunny days of Los Angeles that naturally dissuade you from staying indoors with a good book. And since […]

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William Burroughs 102

by Tony Shea February 5, 2016

image via America’s ultimate “Junkie”, William Burroughs would have been 102 today. One of the primo Beat writers along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Bowles, Burroughs was an unrepentant drug addict for most of his life, traversing some truly weird cerebral territory along the way and somehow living to be 83 years old, […]

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Descending Memphis – Interview with Author Robert R. Moss – His Life in Music and Words

by Sean Koepenick September 18, 2015

It’s extremely rare to have a debut novel hit the market and simply defy all expectations. Only a select few authors have managed to do it: Salinger? Kennedy-O’Toole? Well, add another author to that very short list. Descending Memphis by Robert R. Moss is a gritty, action-packed story from page one. The main character-Tommy Rhodeen […]

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Poet Brent Short Releases New Collection – Review – A+

by Tony Shea June 14, 2015

Brent Short has released a new collection of poems entitled The Properties of Light and it’s fantastic. For more than twenty years Short has quietly been going about the business of becoming one of America’s finest poets, honing and refining his craft. You won’t hear his name mentioned in the same breath as Robert Hass […]

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Top 10 Comic Book Series

by Jay Hood December 18, 2014

Superheroes are everywhere these days. Marvel has mapped out all of their superhero movies between now and 2018. DC has done the same for their franchise superheroes. I’m not sure The CW shows anything but superhero shows at this point. With so many caped crusaders flying around both the big and small screens, it is […]

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Fat Drunk and Bipolar – Review – “A”

by Tony Shea December 14, 2014

Lynn Bryan Johnson’s Fat Drunk and Bipolar is a memoir that reads like Dennis Johnson’s (no relation) Jesus’s Son if it were written by Billie Letts of Where the Heart Is fame, which is to say that is a brass tacks “recovery” story that manages to achieve a kind of joy through sorrow, elevated by […]

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The 5 Best Philip K. Dick Books

by Tony Shea August 28, 2014

Philip K. Dick was one of the great visionary science fiction writers of the 20th century, publishing forty-four novels during his highly decorated and award-winning career. Dick was nominated five times for the Nebula Award, won the John W. Campbell Award for his novel Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, as well as a Hugo […]

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We’re Off to See the Wizard – Charles Krauthammer Revealed

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. January 13, 2014

Things That Matter, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer’s latest series of essays, for the most part previously published in the Washington Post, soared to the top of best seller lists in 2013. The collection’s popularity rides on his record of being stylistically engaging, sometimes humorous, and seemingly compassionate, logical, and objective. For admirers like […]

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Top 10 Comic Book Series of 2013

by Jay Hood December 16, 2013

  Let’s kick off the end of the year with an obligatory top 10 list.  This one will focus on something a little different.   This list avoids the big Marvel and DC titles and looks in on some of the non-caped crusaders (though Batman ’66 is a super fun read!).  These didn’t necessarily all […]

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AT LAST! HOW TO BE STEVE MARTIN!

by Eric Hoffman December 11, 2013

HOW TO BE STEVE MARTIN! By Prof. Eric Hoffman™ and Dr. Gary Rudoren© (From the book Comedy By The Numbers©, a how-to manual explaining the secrets of humor and popularity!  Published by McSweeney’s and available here.  Now in its historic 2nd printing.) The 1st EVER step-by-step breakdown of a career that will last a lifetime! […]

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In Praise of Paul Bowles

by Tony Shea November 18, 2013

Today marks the anniversary of the death of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles. While typically not as well known as certain of his contemporaries, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Albert Camus, Bowles surely ranks of one of the best. Bowles straddled a literary fence between the world of the Beatniks and the French Existentialists, […]

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David Foster Wallace – Death is not the End

by Tony Shea September 12, 2013

Today marks the anniversary of the death of David Foster Wallace. One of America’s bright and shining literary stars of the last fifty years, Wallace committed suicide at the age of 46. He’s probably best known for the phone book sized novel Infinite Jest, which you have casually mentioned to friends with literary inclinations that […]

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