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If you are in the market for a smart, funny, subversive take on the memoir, do yourself a favor and read John Waters’ Role Models: “a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some … Continue reading
Three Little Nerds
When I started writing, the only other person I knew who loved language as much as me and studied fiction like a nerd like me was my beautiful wife. She and I would sit across from one another at our … Continue reading
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Book List
This year, oh this year, I’ve decided to keep a blog list of every book that I read and include my favorite quotes. When trying to think back on the books that I read in 2011, I had an embarrassingly … Continue reading
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Last New Year Ending
I like endings, but this isn’t how I want to begin. It’s quiet tonight in this apartment in Brooklyn. Our upstairs neighbors have gone out, to celebrate I’m sure. The street is lined with cars, everyone parked and in for … Continue reading
Literary Hide-and-Seek with Terrorist Errors
There is a redundancy in the process of book publishing that can make one feel like they are loosing their grip on sanity, or in this case that the damned zombies will never stop coming. If I were to count … Continue reading
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Paragraph Nights
My cousin, Dominic, is a musician. He lives in Philly and teaches music to folks who want to learn to rock like him. Since I’ve known him he’s been in a bazillion and four bands, each successively better than the … Continue reading
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The Controlled Burn of a Collapsing Man
I woke up this morning with a smile, thinking about the word “collapsing.” The word holds a negative sum–breaking down, folding in, falling, crumbling all around. But the word, for me, means quite the opposite. Collapsing up. Collapsing Man. I … Continue reading
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FDU TLR Reading.
Some exciting news to share: First, I have been invited to give a reading at the launch party for The Literary Review’s Spring issue held in the Orangerie of the Library of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. The … Continue reading
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A New Website
I have a website. http://jrangelella.com Keep on. jra.
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To View Again; Re-view; Review
Thanks to John Madera and his editorial guidance and friendly networking, I have had the luck and pleasure of expanding out into the literary world to review books. This month two of my book reviews have published. The first was … Continue reading
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