- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (20 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595386156
- ISBN-13: 978-0595386154
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,321,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A man falls in love with a woman who exists only in his dreams.
A young couple walks the same street day after day, the husband always talking and the wife-doing what?
An artist sits sketching in the cemetery of a mental hospital, and wishes he'll someday be buried there.
A hopeful businessman opens a shop in a location that is doomed.
A vampire craves, not his victims' blood, but their personalities.
Eighty-nine blog posts, the best of the author's first year in the blogosphere.
Eighty-nine glimpses of life imagined, experienced, felt, cherished, and above all, clearly seen. Here are stories of people yearning for companionship, parables of the unwittingly enlightened and the unknowingly benighted, landscapes of desolate beauty, moments of everyday tenderness and of sudden comic recognition, transcending the line between fiction and nonfiction.
As up-to-date as the blogosphere, yet reaching back for its roots to ancient Taoist tales and medieval Japanese pillow books.
Another step forward in the evolution of 'a spectacular writer, a distinctive voice to be heard" (*The Detroit News*).
About the Author
Richard Lawrence Cohen is the author of critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and a creative writing textbook. He was raised in the Bronx and has also lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Married and a father of four, he now lives in Austin, Texas and works in educational writing.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Connections
10 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
Quite a long while ago, I happened upon Rich Cohen's blog. It was an accident, although as time has gone on there seem to be a hundred connections in things we've seen, other blogs we read. But this very first day, I read some post --- not even sure which one --- and thought "Wow, this guy can write." I sent it on to Roger Simon --- who agreed and linked Richard's post.
Rich has made a book of some of the best posts from his blog, mostly small fictions, little scenes that seem to go nowhere until you take a second look. Like this:
"He hocked his guitar for gasoline a hundred miles ago. Far from the first time he'd had to do that. It used to bother him a lot--he's loved every guitar he's ever held--but now he thinks of it as like sending his kids off to college. Some local boy will pick up a Guild twelve-string he couldn't otherwise afford and play it for pretty girls on the lawn of a dorm building."
That's picked randomly, on a bet with myself that anywhere I opened the book I'd see a paragraph that I wanted to bring out and highlight. I won the bet.
This guy can write.
Rich has made a book of some of the best posts from his blog, mostly small fictions, little scenes that seem to go nowhere until you take a second look. Like this:
"He hocked his guitar for gasoline a hundred miles ago. Far from the first time he'd had to do that. It used to bother him a lot--he's loved every guitar he's ever held--but now he thinks of it as like sending his kids off to college. Some local boy will pick up a Guild twelve-string he couldn't otherwise afford and play it for pretty girls on the lawn of a dorm building."
That's picked randomly, on a bet with myself that anywhere I opened the book I'd see a paragraph that I wanted to bring out and highlight. I won the bet.
This guy can write.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
MUST READ
8 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
Richard Cohen's novels are completely lovely. His book of short stories, Pronoun Music, is terrific. In this collection of essays he originally wrote for his blog, he shows us just how smart he is: very. Every writer or aspiring writer, in particular, will learn from his essays about writing. Every reader, in general, will find here a sharp eye and discerning intelligence.--Kelly Cherry
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