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Author Archives: Jim
COME BRIGHTEN YOUR NEW YEAR ON JANUARY 25TH!
yielding a shocking glimpse, perhaps, into one writer’s mind, and how it (sometimes) works! Continue reading
PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION CONCLUDES 24-HOUR GIVEAWAY
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to all those who downloaded the kindle version of my novel, Problems of Translation over the 24-hour giveaway period yesterday. Six hundred eleven people took advantage of this zero dollars sale, from all over the world! … Continue reading
Free Today Only – My Novel, Problems of Translation (ebook edition)
FREE. FREE, FREE! Today only! The ebook of my novel Problems of Translation is free today, December 23, for one day only. Adventure, travel, a love story, and a wild ride — it’s a great holiday read and gift! “One part midlife … Continue reading
Posted in On Books, Problems of Translation -- A Novel, Whatever
Tagged #books, #ebook, #free, #FreebieFriday, #gift, #kindle, #mustread, adventure, fiction, love story, novel, Shelf Unbound
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DREDGING UP THE PAST
Back in the summer of ’89 I earned a month-long stint at the Edward Albee Center at Montauk Point. It was an exhilarating and productive time, with a lot of highlights, including being feted at my birthday dinner by Edward … Continue reading
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Tagged Albee, lamborghini, Montauk Point, novel
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Jim Story & Celeste Baker: May 11th, 6-7:30, Cornelia St. Café
Come join Celeste Rita Baker and me at the Cornelia St. Café for a delightful early-evening reading of new fiction! I’ll be reading from my soon-to-be-completed next novel, The Condor’s Shadow, and from Problems of Translation, my recently published novel, called “An insanely amusing … Continue reading
ZIG ZAG, BIPPITY BUMP: ALONG COMES LUCIA BERLIN
Now along comes Lucia Berlin. Or here she always was, I guess, only I didn’t know it. Poor lady only had a couple of thousand readers, by one estimate. Deserved, deserves many more. Wrote in short, snappy sentences. Black or … Continue reading
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MIA ALVAR’S “IN THE COUNTRY”–HOW DO I LIKE IT? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS…
Each of the nine stories in Mia Alvar’s absorbing first collection grabs you from the start and lingers long after you’ve finished. Scrutinize as you will with your Sherlock Holmes-style magnifying glass, it’s hard to find a bad line or … Continue reading
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ALL ABOARD for Watching VIDEO PERFORMANCES of PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION!
A belated thanks to everyone who came out for my reading a month ago (October 6th) at the Cornelia Street Café. For those who weren’t able to come, videos of that performance are now available not only on my website but on … Continue reading