The best thing I can say about the good luck this book brought me is that I didn’t develop my current illness until after reading it and moving on to another.
Author Archives: Matt Borondy
David Levien
“I’m drawn to sub-cultures that have a code, custom, and language of their own. Whether it is underground poker, organized crime, the porn business, law, or soldiering, I am interested in the rules of these insular worlds, and how they mesh and gnash with the greater outside world.”
Posted in Author Interviews Tagged David Levien, Novelists, Rounders, Screenwriters, Swagbelly
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Sheri Fink, M.D.
“When the survivors entrusted me with the stories of the worst days of their lives, telling those stories became my responsibility.”
Posted in Author Interviews Tagged Bosnia, Genocide, Sheri Fink, Srebrenica, War Hospital
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Susannah Breslin
“You know how some people like "feel-good" movies? I like "feel-bad" movies. Same is true for books.”
Posted in Author Interviews Tagged Matt Borondy, Porn, Susannah Breslin, You're a Bad Man Aren't You?
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Comment from Graham Nicholls
Dear Matt, Just came by your site and thought it was excellent, a really refreshing selection of articles and reviews. It’s good to see an edge to the work, something that is rare in Britain at present. All the best Graham Nicholls Video and Installation Artist http://www.grahamnicholls.com/
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Kimberley Snow
“Writing, like meditation, can be a path for developing compassion as well as bringing things up into consciousness. Something about picking up the pen, or letting my fingers just sort of dance over the keyboard, helps to by-pass the normal busy mind and take me somewhere else.”
Posted in Author Interviews Tagged Buddhism, Cooking, In Buddha's Kitchen, Kimberley Snow
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Carolyn Parkhurst
Elise Blackwell
Matthew Derby
Deleted Items (777)
A composite of the 777 e-mails I’ve deleted in the past few days Dear FIRSTNAME (friend), I know you’re very busy so I’m gonna get right to the point. THE INCUMBENT PRESIDENT(CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO) HAS MAPPED OUT SOME STRATEGY TO USE THE COUNTRY’S PETROLEUM MONEY TO FINANCE HIS CAMPAIGN, HE RAISED THE COST OF PETROLEUM […]
The Poetry of Joe Bolton
Joe Bolton was born in 1961 in Cadiz, Kentucky. In 1990, shortly after completing his master’s thesis, he commited suicide. It is estimated that Bolton wrote nearly 500 poems in the 80’s, most of them while attending writing programs at Western Kentucky University, the University of Florida, and the University of Arizona. He published three […]
The Jesus Video
Essentially, the Jesus movie consists of nothing more than a pretty-boy Shakespearean with a prominent forehead wandering aimlessly around Israel and muttering half-heartedly about eternity while a bunch of people with disheveled hair act as if they are in awe of his prowess.
(Emptiness / “Zen, Buddhism” / and wrds)
A sentence is. Is. the packaging of knowledge. Zen is. Is. the attainment of nothing. Nothing. more than “Did I say that?”” What I add is. Is. what I subtract.
