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In the Middle of Nowhere but Not Lost: Eric Chaet’s ‘People I Met Hitchhiking On USA Highways’ Works To Change the Odds

    In the Middle of Nowhere but Not Lost: Eric Chaet’s ‘People I Met Hitchhiking On USA Highways’ Works To Change the Odds

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles I remember the first time I was truly alone. Years ago, far from home and in unfamiliar territory I stood, stretching my legs beside my

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The United States of Air: A Review

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE (editor’s note: I wrote this review at Amazon, and what was supposed to be a quick blurb turned into a short article. It’s not a great review,

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Satyagraha

ERIC CHAET Gandhi dressed as satyagrahi, 1913. Periodically, I write in praise of satyagraha, firmness for the truth, non-violent action. It was the means Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi employed to overthrow

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Loins Heavy With Blood: HST’s Words On the Quest for the White House Still Ring True

    Loins Heavy With Blood: HST’s Words On the Quest for the White House Still Ring True

After watching the candidates circle one another during the second presidential debate, seeing the intensity in their gazes, and being uncomfortable with Mitt Romney’s pushiness toward the moderator, I couldn’t

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Moby Dick’s 161st: It’s Not Just About A-Whalin’

Moby Dick’s 161’s anniversary is today (not the whale’s, but the book’s). If you haven’t read this novel, I highly

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Tiny Little Jewels Of Reality

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles From the Love of Zero, 35mm film by Robert Florey For all of his moments

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Donald O’Donovan’s Orgasmo To Be Dear Dirty America’s First Blogged Novel

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles  (Open Books has published Orgasmo. Posts from the novel have been removed from this blog. Please

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Reading For A Fresh Understanding of Humanity

One man has a Stephen King problem. In describing how much he can’t admire King’s prose, he does shed light

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Humans Like Frogs In Bug Jars

DDA I’m still trying to get a grip on a blog called Confessions of A Former White Hat Operative. The

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Bloomsday, One Day Late

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE North Dakota A hack of a writer wrote a piece about his five favorite lines (and passages) from James Joyce’s Ulysses. Since Bloomsday was yesterday (the 16th

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