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Gray Snyder, in the shadow of bluffs
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Snyder’s Shadow-Bluffs

Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

Had a new realization today about one of my favorite lines of poetry: In the shadow of bluffs I came back to myself,To the real…

Michael Des Barres
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Here’s To The Also-Rans!

Posted on February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

Every kid grows up thinking they’ll be a star. It seems inevitable when you’re coming up, when all the parents clap wildly after the school…

Stoner by John Williams
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Stoner

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

John William’s Stoner is one of the best novels that you’ve never read, probably never even heard of. It tracks the career of a farmboy…

Four Hour Body
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A Little Less Of Me: The Slow-Carb Diet

Posted on January 25, 2021January 27, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

I’m back on a diet. It happens to me every few years, when I groggily step on the dusty, cobwebbed scale after my morning ablutions…

Johnny Marr Set The Boy Free
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Johnny Marr: Set The Boy Free

Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

In 2018, I became a fan of Johnny Marr. It only took thirty years. Three decades after dubbing my buddy’s Queen Is Dead cassette, after…

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Derek Sivers: Your Music and People

Posted on December 27, 2020January 1, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

Dug into a new little book recently, Your Music And People: Creative and Considerate Fame, by Derek Sivers. You may or may not know his…

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The War of Art

Posted on October 16, 2020October 17, 2020 by Grant Wentzel

Let me introduce you to my new friend: Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. Short book. Easy Read. Steven Pressfield is a screen-writer and novelist,…

Virginia Woolf - Guns N Roses - Grant Wentzel
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Patience, Virginia

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Grant Wentzel

Pursuing another self-imposed deadline, I plowed through Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. (Keeping up with a book club often calls for such bouts of efficiency.) Thus,…

Tom Wolfe Kingdom of Speech
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Tom Wolfe & The Theory of Everything

Posted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 by Grant Wentzel

Say what you will about his white-suited schtick, Tom Wolfe wore it well. As he’s elaborated many times, the whites were his in-plain-sight camouflage —…

10 Albums That Changed My (Later) Life.
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10 Albums That Changed My (Later) Life

Posted on July 5, 2020August 3, 2020 by Grant Wentzel

I knew I’d get tagged by some chum sooner or later. There’s another one of those “10 Records That Changed Your Life” Facebook memes going…

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