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Michael

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My Interests

Wise Owl Books has departments devoted to fiction, non-fiction, biography, literature and contemporary poetry. We also have sections on politics, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and science for the general reader. We carry a large number of journals specializing in the arts, poetry, politics, and the contemporary American scene. And we have unique Florida gifts, for friends, relatives, or you! Our eBay store sells publisher's overstocks, remaindered books, used books and audio books.

I'd like to meet:

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ~William Faulkner

Music:

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Then again, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis.

Movies:

High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen

Television:

What is television?

Books:

Right Now: *Against the Day* by Thomas Pynchon; *The Outlaw Bible of American Literature* by Alan Kaufman, Barney Rosset, Neil Ortenberg; *Bitchfest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine* by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler; *A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing* by T Cooper and Adam Mansbach; *A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America* by David Griffith; *Before the Dawn* by Nicholas Wade

My Blog

John Ernst Steinbeck II

  John Steinbeck tribute on Cannery Row, Monterey, California.   Steinbeck in Hollywood   Seventeen of his works were made into Hollywood films, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940) &a...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST