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A Nice Review on Amazon for Room for Improvement
From Kevin Quinley from Fairfax, VA: True confessions: my Gmail address is geezerjock@gmail.com Compared to John Casey, author of ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, though, I readily concede my poseur status. Now...
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Former Rowing Coach Responds
John Casey Here I am, browsing at a bookstore in Wellesley, MA with a friend and naturally, I gravitate to the Sports Section. You can only imagine my thrill and delight when I discover that the John...
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first year (2001) of the reading journals of John Casey–following years TK
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard My friend Savi’s pick for a funny novel. I thought it a strange tour de...
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second year (2002) of John Casey Reading Journals
Demon of the Waters: The story of the mutiny on the whaleship ‘Globe’ by Gregory Gibson (sent by Deborah Baker for a blurb) Blurb: The mutiny on the Globe is every bit as exciting as the mutiny on the...
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Miscellaneous Diary 2002-2010: Travel and Daughters
May 3, 2002 Two post-it notes left beside a dead blue jay Julia found on the sidewalk and put in a shoebox on my workshed porch: “Fred, a blue jay, found recently dead, was a good bird. He was a...
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“Rewriting”
This first appeared in HuffingtonPost. When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I’d spend the summer writing a novel. (A bit more than a half-century later, I laugh.) To keep the days...
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Hodie = Today, Mihi = To Me, Cras = Tomorrow, Tibi = To You.
The root of “procrastination.” One of my favorite places in Rome.
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“Beyond the First Draft” up for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award
Beyond the First Draft has been nominated for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award! Visit the Library’s website at http://www.lva.virginia.gov to vote now. In his September 5th, 2014...
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‘The Love Object,’ by Edna O’Brien, reviewed in the New York Times
Read my full review of ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien here, from the June 9th, Sunday Edition of the New York Times. Dwight Garner also wrote a review of the book for the daily edition of the NY...
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