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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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Alex Kudera @alexkudera.bsky.social · Oct 22
short stories

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Short Stories by Alex Kudera
"A Day's Worth,"   Eclectica Magazine , July 2025 "Chinese Sun," Meniscus , Volume 12, Issue 2, pages 139 to 146, November 2024 "Going to...
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It looks a little bit, if not a lot of bit, like the author.

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James Baldwin
Beauford Delaney's Portrait of James Baldwin  is on temporary display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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pelicans of ponte vedra

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pelicans rearrange
I got some good feedback on the unpublished, "My Old Man," and that got me back into the general area of "remembering Dad"--something I'm su...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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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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available as an audio book and trade paperback

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Alex Kudera's review of White Mythology
5/5: I finished the longer of the two novels--a novel of about 335 pages and a novella of about 120, I think--and highly recommend it. The book includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at ti...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:10 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…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Herman Melville

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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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"Christmas in New York" from Alfred Kazin's journals

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12/20/1963: Christmas in New York
"All those new office buildings of glass were lit up. [Park] Avenue was sparkling with Christmas lights, and the effect was stunning in its ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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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
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a reader got me back to number twelve in free humorous literary fiction

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The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity
The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity - Kindle edition by Kudera, Alex. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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a thousand to get started in new york city

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to free me from their grief
"The summer that my brother died, I moved home to be with my parents, until one day in August my mother told me to leave, to 'go and live yo...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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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
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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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Follow me on Substack for literary notes, articles, excerpts, asides, and interviews.

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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
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We're almost arrived again at "A Thanksgiving."

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A Thanksgiving—Alex Kudera—Eclectica Magazine v25n3
Fiction by Alex Kudera, Eclectica Magazine v25n3
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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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
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line editing

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"A great line editor is a miracle. . ."
In literature class, I'm teaching Kate Braverman's "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta" and Jayne Anne Phillips's "Home," so that sent me sea...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Vietnam War Memorial
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Vietnam War Memorial
Last November, we had a chance to walk the wall in Washington, D.C.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Follow me on Substack for literary notes, articles, excerpts, asides, and interviews.

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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
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Dr. Ed

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Dr. Ed
"Dr. Ed decided to walk the rest of the way to the hospital. This took 20 minutes more, but further lateness seemed a small price to pay for...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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It's up there and certainly better than everything after Underworld.
ghoward1950.bsky.social Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 11d
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.
jsief.bsky.social Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 11d
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
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Interview with Mark SaFranko
In 2025, I’ve had a chance to read Mark SaFranko’s Nowhere Near Hollywood and reread The Suicide. At the same time, a series of author interviews I placed at When Falls the Coliseum are no longer visi...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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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NBC Nightly News Full Episode - Nov. 13
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Chinese Sun

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"Chinese Sun"
My most recent publication, "Chinese Sun," begins on page 139 of Meniscus , Volume 12, Issue 2; the journal is the creation of the Australa...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:26 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?
doctorsyntax.bsky.social DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 15d
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.
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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