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The supposed memoirs of Arnold Schnabel, a brakeman/poet recovering from a mental breakdown in the quaint seaside resort of Cape May, NJ, in 1963. . . .
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Lethe Bashar’s Novel of Life is a work of fictional autobiography. The main character, Lethe, is the author’s self-proclaimed alter ego and former adolescent self. On three different weblogs, spanning 25 years, the reader is encouraged to read the text from any point in time and proceed in any direction. Lethe in Spain follows Lethe’s adventures living abroad—at first . . .
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The working chapters of a new novel by Heather Spoonheim about her experiences in trying to bring some culinary innovation to a small town. . . .
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Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
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A full understanding of Bent Magnus begins with his mind. Imagine if you poured the intellectual horsepower of Einstein, Edison, and Ben Franklin all into one man. Now imagine that the man wasn’t a total pansy, like those other guys, and you have Bent Magnus. Beginning with his birth at the “Fight of the Century” in 1910, Bent Magnus . . .
Steven is a psychiatric nurse close to burnout. He senses that the boundaries between his own mind, the mental health unit where he works, and society itself, are becoming dangerously blurred. Glamorous nursing assistant Kate and mystery man Llewelyn are the only two people who can help him, but . . . . . . .
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A girl relates her experiences and sometimes awkward moments as she realizes her dream of becoming a rock star. . . .
Lethe Bashar’s Novel of Life is an interlinked trio of webnovels about the life of the title character, Lethe Bashar—a self-deceiving, self-hating, and wholly messed-up young man who expects far more of himself than he is willing to put in the effort to obtain. Each piece is markedly different from the others, in terms of narrative focus, characterization, and even [more . . .]
Railroad Train to Heaven is one of the great pleasures in my life: a story that is beautifully written, funny, intelligent, endlessly surprising and often quite moving. The world of the hapless hero (Arnold Schabel) alternates between perfectly imagined scenes of the past (the story takes place in 1963, with occasional side-trips into other eras) and surreal sequences, when Arnold’s [more . . .]