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E.M. Crane

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About Me


Writer of contemporary Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. My debut novel, Skin Deep, will be launched by Delacorte - Random House in 2008. Skin Deep received the 2006 Delacorte Award for First Young Adult Novel. Visit me at www.emcrane.com

Photo credits Gordon W. Perkins and MPC.

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…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars,…and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures. Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 1958

My Blog

Lake Rights

So, if you were thirteen miles offshore this past Saturday afternoon in a 26-foot boat, a hundred feet of water between you and the bottom of the lake, and another boat slides out of the muggy mist an...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Rock On

Time flies. I've said so little.I've been writing and traveling. And now it's good to be home. Good old Sackets Harbor.
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:12:00 GMT