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Abbreviations: KU means Kindle Unlimited and NYP means “Name Your Price” (that’s an option on Smashwords and other booksellers). If you’d like to submit an ebook to me for review or mention in this column, see my instructions here. Here is my article about methods and search queries I use to locate ebook deals.
My 1965 Project articles have been coming slowly. But here’s a long essay about 1965 children’s books. Here’s an “Elevator Pitch” video I did for Alberto Balengo’s Minor Sketches and Reveries (YT). I think it’s my best so far.
Indie Author Spotlight
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Under the Radar
Another One Bites the Past by Vladimir Provorov. A famous rock singer has an odd concert experience in 1973 and meets a mysterious stranger. What is going on? Here’s a nice review.
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture
Yonder Stands Your Opinion by Barry Hannah.
Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs Novel by Matthew Dicks.
Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes (Novel) by Christopher Bram.
Night Garden by Polly Horvath. Newbery Prize author of children’s books.
Well by Matthew McIntosh.
Hot Damn! Alligators in the Casino by James W. Hall. Humor columns.
Crossways by Sheila Kohler.
Gone with the Mind by Mark Leyner
Glimmer by Sam Aleks. Young girl traumatized by a fire dives into painting to assuage her guilt about the death of her brother.
Manual Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fiction by Suzanne Jill Levine
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson.
Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles by Fabio Bartolomei.
Fellow Mortals Novel by Dennis Mahoney.
Forty Days at Kamas Book 5 by Preston Fleming.
The World has changed: Conversations with Alice Walker.
Adventurist: Novel by J. Bradford Hipps.
Damage Control: Stories by Amber Dermont. Rice U. creative writing teacher. Videos: Reading at ABR, Also a 1 hour reading on Vimeo.
End of Alice by A.M. Homes. British tale of sexual dalliance/flirtation between an older man and a way-younger teenage girl.
Stone Fields: love and death in the Balkans by Courtney Angela Brkic. Anthropologist’s memoir of exhuming bodies in Bosnia during the Yugoslav war in the 1990s.
Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America by Barbara Clark Smith.
Sexual Awakening (4 Novellas) by Lucy Xane.
Margo’s Cafe by Tom Milton.
Blink and It’s Gone
Shucks, I dilly-dallied too long and didn’t grab The Mabinogion Tetralogy: by Evangeline Walton when it was still 2.99. There are other translations, but this one is supposed to be highly readable and fun.
Magus by John Fowles. I started reading this 1965 novel but find it awkward to read with glasses. Totally glad I could find the title discounted, though I had to wait a long while.
Tales of the Night by Peter Hoeg. Parallel stories taking place in the same day in 1929.
Library Purchases/Printed books
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Creative Commons/Freebies
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Literary Articles and Essays
Here’s a nice collection of college reading lists. Here’s another and another. Here’s another much longer list.
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Capsule Book Reviews
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Multimedia/Podcasts, Etc
This video (which is also available as a podcast and on YouTube) is hilarious. Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen are two of the funniest people in USA.
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