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Jack Saunders
He's an OYBP author whose books are best ordered direct from the OYBP
Link at the OYB homepage, but order from Amazon if you must! : ) All *8*
titles available via OYBP.
Description: In no-holds-barred "Florida writer" tradition, Jack
Saunders writes stories about publishing, academia and everyday life, about
what it's like to work and succeed while being true to oneself and one's
family and culture. He writes honestly and creatively, and that's the understatement
of the year--yet it's accessible, fits like a shoe. Tastes like coffee (being
an acquired taste, a step up). He writes with encyclopedic insight about
how this effort relates to the world around him, other authors, books, movies,
music, Florida, cooking, his life, work, business, progress. In folk vernacular
with local color that won't quit. Jack names names, uses cultural artifacts
in his poetry so superbly you'll be spurred to rent movies, read books,
listen to music that you never would've otherwise. Heck, you'll get new
appreciation for boxing and baseball..and everything else. (Sailing? Farming?)
Folky yet also a linguistic eye-opener. It's that big. It's all about someone
trying to do their best in the modern world, to write honestly. Give it
a try and see where it gets you, is one of his motifs. Each book is a slice
of a larger ouevre (ahem, can you say forklift pallet?)--with letters, memoir,
poetry and essay all playing off each other. In the end, though, "it's
just stories." Jazz and the blues. In the mainstream of American outsiders:
Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Kerouac, Miller, Algren, Thompson, Bukowski,
MacDonald, Willeford, Burke, Hiassen and Finster. As he says, the Cracker
spirit lives on and a country boy will make do. Except for insiders, he
is entirely unknown. But he's been working close, prolific and giving it
his all for 25 years now. Why haven't you heard of him? Find out...
A GENERAL REVIEW: In Jack Saunders our generation is extremely lucky to
have a powerful and determined writer, an honest writer. A Diogenes not
merely of words, but of provocative thoughts. From his hideaway in Florida,
like a super-energized lobster, Saunders lashes out at the sickening hypocrisy
which is deadening our senses and rotting our souls. It is Saunders' adamant,
boneheaded, determined persistence that is his great strength, his great
gift to a society staggering in its own materialistic greed. Saunders is
America at its best. He spells out what spirit is all about. And humanity.
How do we live? When do we really come ALIVE? As we should? And deserve?
America needs writers with such strength and ferocity and independence and
integrity, not all those greedy little wordmongers contemplating their private
parts on every supermarket shelf. Saunders is more than a literary volcano.
He is a live, writhing, crackling wire. Spewing sparks in all directions.
Creating and developing a brighter, newer world. --Raymond Barrio
Screed,
by Jack L. Saunders. Favorite alltime outlaw writer of width and breadth
and daring beyond the pale. All American. The new king.
Forty,
by Jack L. Saunders
Blue
Darter Jack
L Saunders, Jack L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Common
Sense Jack
L Saunders, Jack L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Evil
Genius Jack
L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Full
Plate Jack
L Saunders, Jack L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Lost
Writings Jack
L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Open
Book Jack
L. Saunders / Paperback / Published 1998
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Cormac McCarthy...
Writes about MARGINAL reality; gritty rural realism, with soul and
philosophy intact. CM uses biblical diction and cadence at least as good
as Melville and Faulkner.
All
the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Vol 1) ~ Ships
in 2-3 days Cormac McCarthy / Paperback / Published 1993 ---Teen
runaway cowboys. "Kinda looks like they're trying to fence us in, don't
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The
Crossing (The Border Trilogy, V. 2) ~ Usually
ships in 24 hours Cormac McCarthy / Paperback
/ Published 1995 ---Excellent scenes of teen starvation while riding a horse,
then coming into barebones wateringholes and getting a little tortilla.
Quite a bit of spanish text to make (me) feel I'm in foreign country. Great
wet your whistle scenes. Fine revolution stuff. Super cosmic God digressions
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Blood
Meridian ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Cormac McCarthy / Paperback / Published 1992 ---Scary magic realism cowboystyle,
plus realist grit to beat the band and maybe make you barf. Best Devil yet.
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The
Orchard Keeper ~ Ships in 2-3 daysCormac
McCarthy / Paperback / Published 1993 ---The best old man and old hound
in prose. Plus the best bar ever. Southern setting, 1930's.Our Price: $9.60
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Suttree
~ Ships in 2-3 days Cormac McCarthy
/ Paperback / Published 1992 ---Only depiction of jugfloat catfishing in
literature that I know of, complete with winos and bums. This novel takes
place along Southern riverbanks, bridges and their towns, exclusively. Best
(and only) depictions of 'splo' in lit----moonshine. Great 'benders'. Our
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Jim Harrison...
The #1 writer from Michigan, a crusty outdoor literary genius, cook,
wit, novelist and poet--plus Buddhist Lutheran turmoil. Hi s poetry was
the first to show me big readable power. It's meaty wrasslin' stuff, not
like the affected stuff that turned the world against poesy. Each poem is
like a novel. Great for the hurried reader. Pack it in!
Selected
and New Poems : 1961-1981
Jim Harrison / Published 1989 [Best poetry I ever read, because it reads
like high octane prose. Every 20 pages packs the impact of a novel! Save
time! Love *language* and *essence*. Concrete, too, no mushy stuff...action-packed...poetry
for the poetry-hater.
The
Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems ~ Usually
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Just
Before Dark : Collected Nonfiction ~ Usually
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---Lots of hunting, fishing, eating and walking. Richer than rich. Our Price:
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Sundog
: The Story of an American Foreman, Robert Corvus Strang ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Jim Harrison / Paperback / Published 1989 [The only novel about civil engineering....]
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Warlock
: A Novel ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Jim Harrison / Paperback / Published 1982 [Good rabbit recipes, I hear...]
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Wolf
: A False Memoir ~ Usually ships in
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Woman Lit by Fireflies ~ Ships in 2-3
days Jim Harrison / Paperback / Published 1991 [First depiction
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Charles Bukowski...
A crusty writer and poet, unpublishable except for his drinking, debauch
and Euro fame due to the QUALITY of his writing...after that both NYC and
Hwood had to love him. Quality? What can America do with that? Ignore it
usually works. Buk got in, now he's dead. He was weak anyway. But good.
The weakness was his success. If he didn't drink, he'd be worse off than
JACK SAUNDERS (the new king). But check out Buk anyway, if you haven't...
Ham
on Rye by Charles Bukowski / Paperback / Published 1982 Our Price:
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Post
Office : A Novel by Charles Bukowski / Paperback / Published 1981
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War
All the Time : Poems, 1981-1984\ Ships
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Others...
A
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole. Comic first novel
by writer who was driven to suicide by the publishing establishment due
to his lack of brown-nosing and credentials, despite years of trying to
show this fine book to all and sundry. When someone finally read the first
page (with JT's crying mother sitting before him) it was seen to be a fine,
unique work. An American tragedy. Classic hilarity combined with shocking
pathos, with great examples of ebonics in print. Deadeye accurate yet over
the top caricatures of all types, to beat the band.
Sometimes
a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey. A novel of the curative power of hard
work and breakfast, thru the lives of a lumberjack family, some hippies,
some educated, some not, and how they're all tempered on the anvil of life.
The
Third Policeman ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Flann O'Brien / Paperback / Published 1986 ---Irish blarny at its best.
Joyce has nothin' on it. Mind games and old bikes. Then try 'At Swim Two
Birds' for the tricky take on legendary heroes and purple prose well over
the top. Then 'The Poor Mouth' if you think you've heard complainin'. Our
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The
Bone People ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Keri Hulme / Paperback / Published 1986 ---A kaleidescopic novel with the
seaside, marooned wind of New Zealand in it. A candid look at lost souls
trying to sort it out amidst kelp, lushness and a world which will seem
much different from an American's. A different voice is great to see. Experimental,
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Vagabond
Anthology
John Bennett / Paperback / Published 1978 . A collection of underground
unpublishable writings. Top notch. Our Price: $4.95 + $2.35 special surcharge
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