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Alex Kudera’s award-winning debut, Fight for Your Long Day, and second novel, Auggie's Revenge offer plenty of laughs and put the adjunct struggle on the literary map. See Bookshop, Goodreads, Amazon, etc. https://x.com/kudera/status/1481067507633041414

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a brief introduction

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06.12.2025 08:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
YouTube video by Hogan Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

Until tonight, I did not realize that the title of the book review is based upon this music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ1hx88nz9M

06.12.2025 06:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense In the middle of my insomnia, I stumbled upon an informal but engaging review called " Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense " and written by Blac...

kudera.blogspot.com/2012/01/teacher-dont-teach-me-nonsense.html

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06.12.2025 05:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
calling out well I'm one of those weird ones who shows up; I can't remember calling out sick in sixteen years of teaching, and the only unplanned absence I c...

back when I used to be a blogger who blogged

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05.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alex Kudera's review of White Mythology 5/5: I finished the longer of the two novels--a novel of about 335 pages and a novella of about 120, I think--and highly recommend it. The book includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at ti...

available as an audio book and trade paperback

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

26.11.2025 01:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It was the age of ignorance,

It was the age of "Oooh, snap."

04.12.2025 23:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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04.12.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#booksky #writingcommunity #writinglife #awp #mfa

04.12.2025 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
brief note on White Mythology I finished the longer of the two novels included in W.D. Clarke's  White Mythology,   and I highly recommend it. The  novel I read is about...

White Mythology by W.D. Clarke

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/11/brief-note-on-white-mythology.html

#writinglife #canadian #postmodern #novel #fiction #fridayreads #booksky

04.12.2025 05:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Citywide Lunch simple – just like the drink. flash only. 2400 max. it used to be 2000 but the cost of three citywides usually cost about 24 bucks, so I figured the limit of the story is the limit of the lun…

Support South Philly by submitting to Citywide Lunch--2,400 words or less (but see me if you'd like to talk sobriety).

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03.12.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
the literary scene Emily Sipiora's Victim Radio presents Mark de Silva on the literary scene.

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03.12.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mark de Silva Discusses "The Logos" Art and The Visual Texture of Contemporary Life

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02.12.2025 21:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On is primarily a short, satisfying novel of Korean American experience in South California, but it also...

Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong

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#writinglife #realism #American #Koreatown #LosAngelesCA #Columbia #activism #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

02.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#cybermonday #indie #smallpress #indielit #adjunct #edchat #ncaa #football #pennsylvania #booksky

01.12.2025 16:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is this all there is?

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01.12.2025 03:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

comic urban crime novel for #SmallBusinessSaturday

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30.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
You Don't Know What Love Is (an evening with Charles Bukowski) by Raymond Carver You Don't Know What Love Is (an evening with Charles Bukowski) by Ramond Carver You don't know what love is Bukowski said I'm 51 years old look at me I'm in love with this young broad I got it bad bu...

"You Don't Know What Love Is (an evening with Charles Bukowski)"
~~ Raymond Carver
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29.11.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I've never felt like an American "But no one can tell me that Edmund Wilson feels like an immigrant's son. Bill Gibson and his wife asked people at the Arthur Schlesinger ...

alfred kazin

kudera.blogspot.com/2020/12/on-feeling-like-american.html

29.11.2025 05:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Auggie's Revenge Check out Auggie's Revenge - Down and out in America, with absurdity all the way. In the city of brotherly unemployment, Michael Vittinger shares an adjuncts' office far removed from any real or imagi...

free shipping of great book for fans of extremely dark comedy

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28.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
The novel of social satire is alive and well, and funny. . . This review written by "Jack Of Most Trades" disappeared from America's Amazon site, but is still visible at the one in France. "Way benea...

kudera.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-novel-of-social-satire-is-alive-and.html

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28.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity - Kindle edition by Kudera, Alex. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity.

and thank you, person or bot, who got this one down to lucky seven

#7 in Humorous Literary Fiction
#66 in Coming of Age Fiction

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27.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Thanksgiving—Alex Kudera—Eclectica Magazine v25n3 Fiction by Alex Kudera, Eclectica Magazine v25n3

Happy Thanksgiving!

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27.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kaufmann Nietzsches The Kudera Nietzsches

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27.11.2025 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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James Baldwin Beauford Delaney's Portrait of James Baldwin  is on temporary display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

It looks a little bit, if not a lot of bit, like the author.

#amreading #American #holiday #novel #short #story #writinglife #fridayreads #realism

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/06/james-baldwin.html

26.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
pelicans rearrange I got some good feedback on the unpublished, "My Old Man," and that got me back into the general area of "remembering Dad"--something I'm su...

pelicans of ponte vedra

kudera.blogspot.com/2011/04/pelicans-rearrange.html

26.11.2025 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Gandhi was inspired by a trade unionist. I learned this today.

It seems to have been Nicholas Klein, not Gandhi.

kudera.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-gandhi-was-inspired-by-trade.html

26.11.2025 03:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alex Kudera's review of White Mythology 5/5: I finished the longer of the two novels--a novel of about 335 pages and a novella of about 120, I think--and highly recommend it. The book includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at ti...

available as an audio book and trade paperback

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

26.11.2025 01:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad

25.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Herman Melville

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25.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
12/20/1963: Christmas in New York "All those new office buildings of glass were lit up. [Park] Avenue was sparkling with Christmas lights, and the effect was stunning in its ...

"Christmas in New York" from Alfred Kazin's journals

kudera.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas-in-new-york.html

24.11.2025 05:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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