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Alex Kudera
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Alex Kudera’s award-winning debut, Fight for Your Long Day, and second novel, Auggie's Revenge offer plenty of laughs and put the adjunct struggle on the literary map. See Bookshop, Goodreads, Amazon, etc.
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It seems to have been Nicholas Klein, not Gandhi.

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The Gandhi was inspired by a trade unionist.
I learned this today.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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#V #ThomasPynchon
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
And the Canon Rap Got Played

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And the Canon Rap Got Played
Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley

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impulse purchase rescue mission
I couldn't resist this six-dollar Exley from the local used store.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
my past life in Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Kafka's Metamorphosis

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bug
I survived mortal combat with a huge bug by the door. It ticked me off when it slithered under my book bag, and so it's fate was to fail to ...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Interview with Michael James Rizza
In 2013, I interviewed Michael James Rizza after he won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction for his debut novel, Cartilage and Skin.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It's worth noting that being inside schools with Title 1 programs can be extremely stressful, and we can't all be Upton Sinclair and get national legislation passed as a result of our literary efforts. Anyway, Hugh was nice enough to review the book.

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Review: The Poor Working Class Poor (A Review of Crown By Evanthia Bromiley)
Because Life is too Short to Read Bullshit
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Follow me on Substack for literary notes, articles, excerpts, asides, and interviews.

#writinglife #American #literature #indie #novel #small #press #survival

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Interview with Michael James Rizza
In 2013, I interviewed Michael James Rizza after he won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction for his debut novel, Cartilage and Skin.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It's up there and certainly better than everything after Underworld.
One of the best things I ever did in my editorial career was to convince Don to let us put AMERICANA back in print in Penguin. It is not his greatest book, but it is my personal favorite.
twenty yrs ago delillo was a lot more popular than now. ‘americana’, his first bk, remains probably one of his lesser known but it is tops
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Between minute three and four, I believe, the news guy calls the deadly leaking gas "a plume"--which is to say that Don DeLillo's White Noise will never die.

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#amreading #American #novel #writinglife #fridayreads
NBC Nightly News Full Episode - Nov. 13
YouTube video by NBC News
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Well, the great thing about American culture in general and book culture in particular in the forties and fifties is that the highbrow -- see esp. Anchor Books -- was as widely available as middlebrow productions. Can we have that time back?
You could argue, though, that the Portable series was in some sense a middlebrow concept. Also I trust none of us is using "middlebrow " as a pejorative!
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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There was nothing middlebrow at all about THE PORTABLE FAULKNER, au contraire. In the brilliance of its editorial selections and, esp., its critical introduction, it holds its brow very very high.
didn't realize that faulkner's career was rebooted by a portable version of his works. score another W for middlebrow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’
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November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM