By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that, of course, the keeper’s lifelong Hemingway adulation is stirred by the Ken Burns PBS series now playing, and, of course, he—the keeper, recalls a long ago visit to Key West and a talk with Captain Tony, proprietor of the former Sloppy Joe’s, where Hemingway liked to …
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Category:Writing
Thicker Than Water Virtual Book Launch
August 26th at 7pm on Facebook Live See details here: Thicker Than Water Virtual Launch Event Be there for the virtual launch of the new novel, Thicker Than Water by Geoffrey Carter, an environmental thriller set in Northern Wisconsin. The event will include live music, a short reading, a Q&A session, and prizes. Click the …
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Hands I Cannot See
Artwork by Michael DiMilo This last Saturday, I installed myself at a table at the Authors Market at the Southeast Wisconsin Book Festival to hawk copies of my novel, The P.S. Wars: Last Stand at Custer High. A lot of people stopped and engaged me in some very interesting conversations. We talked about everything from self-publishing, …
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Giant Steps
Giant Steps Toni Morrison, one of America’s great visionary authors, passed away last week. We lost not only a supremely talented writer, but also a woman of profound courage, incisive vision, and sublime sensibilities. As an African-American woman, her writing enveloped and embraced the marginalized in our society—her society. Novels like Sula, Beloved, The Bluest …
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I Walk the Line
Artwork by Michael DiMilo When I first started writing this blog, I informed my family over dinner one night that I was planning to post one semi-lengthy piece every week and that I was not going to restrict myself to a any specific subject area or genre. I was going to go where the keyboard …
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