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Hemingway's Demons
Curtis DeBerg’s 2024 Wrestling With Demons: In Search of the Real Ernest Hemingway, is appropriately titled. Beset by physical injuries,...
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A Book Review by Rod Haynes
- Feb 14, 2017
- 5 min
BUILDING THE AGRICULTURAL CITY: A HANDBOOK FOR URBAN RENEWAL
By Robert Wolf Ruskin Press, Decorah, Iowa, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9741826-4-3 Robert Wolf’s BUILDING THE AGRICULTURAL CITY: A HANDBOOK FOR...
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Rod Haynes
- Nov 17, 2016
- 5 min
Bruce Springsteen's New Memoir: BORN TO RUN
A few days ago a short clip in the newspaper reported a chance encounter between a local American Legion motorcycle club and a scruffy...
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Rod Haynes
- Aug 21, 2016
- 4 min
A Review of James Still's RIVER OF EARTH
I am more and more drawn to learning about the people, culture, and history of Appalachia. My paternal heritage is connected to the...
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Rod Haynes
- Jun 6, 2016
- 4 min
CITY ON FIRE: A Review
CITY ON FIRE By Garth Risk Halberg Alfred A. Knopf, NY 2015 ISBN # 978-0-385-35377-9 Book Review by Rod Haynes ...
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Rod Haynes
- May 22, 2016
- 1 min
Literary Quotations
One of the things I like to do with my writing is to maintain a journal where I capture quotes from books, bumper stickers, or anything...
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Rod Haynes
- Apr 29, 2016
- 5 min
A SALUTE TO THE LATE JIM HARRISON
This past March America lost a prolific novelist and accomplished poet, whose literary fame was greater abroad than here at home. A...
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Rod Haynes
- Apr 19, 2016
- 2 min
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI: An Excerpt
"One cannot see too many sunrises on the Mississippi. They are enchanting. First, there is the eloquence of silence; for a deep hush...
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A Book Review by Rod Haynes
- Apr 3, 2016
- 4 min
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans by Gary Krist
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans By Gary Krist Crown Publishers, NY 2014 ISBN 978-0-7704-3707-7...
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Rod Haynes
- Mar 19, 2016
- 4 min
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER: A Literary Comparison
I recently read Carson McCullers’ The Heart is A Lonely Hunter for the first time, the same week that literary icon Harper Lee, of To...
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Rod Haynes
- Feb 18, 2016
- 3 min
Sarah Vowell's MARQUIS de LAFAYETTE
Book Review LAFAYETTE IN THE SOMEWHAT UNITED STATES by Sarah Vowell Riverhead Books, NY, 2015 ISBN 9761594631740 How does an author...
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Rod Haynes
- Feb 4, 2016
- 2 min
Gettysburg 1863: Seething Hell
A BOOK REVIEW by Rod Haynes Has there been more than enough research and discussion focusing on the battle of Gettysburg over the past...
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R.S. Haynes
- Dec 9, 2015
- 1 min
BEFORE THE SCRAMBLE is Now On Kindle for $2.99
I am pleased to announce the revised edition of BEFORE THE SCRAMBLE is now available for purchase on KIINDLE under my name, at...
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Rod Haynes
- Nov 12, 2015
- 1 min
On Marketing Books
I recently read that a good tactic for authors lacking wide readership is to give away copies of their work. Over the past two months I...
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