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CharlieBaker

I am here for Serious Relationships

About Me

I'm the writer of the fantasy yearsThe Fantasy Years (1989-2000). A book about modern politics that is not literature but is not not literature, either.

My Interests

Books, music, history, movies--I mean film, art

I'd like to meet:

People who are interested in politics and books. Books and politics. Especially with an eye to current events in America today. Leftwing enthusiasts in rightwing politics. Also pilots, David Berman, and people who know about Hermann Broch and German history

Music:

Silver Jews, Tom Waits

Movies:

Nashville, All the President's Men, Thank you for smoking, Goodmorning, Night

Television:

C-Span, Comedy Central, public access

Books:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972, Time of Illusion, Good Soldier Schweik, The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Bloch,Massimo Carlotto, E. E. Cummings, James T. Farrell, Peter Gay, Thomas Geoghegan, George Grosz, Jaroslav Hasek, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Stephen Koch, David Clay Large, Stanislaw Lem, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, Jonathan Schell, Stendhal, Neal Stephenson, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe

Heroes:

Jaroslav Hasek, Gordon Comstock