Tag: Mordecai of Monterey
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Paradise, Nevada
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Read More →: Paradise, NevadaI had thought about it. The American Photography exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. Then my phone via Facebook or Instagram or Osmosis-Goo suggested that I seriously consider buying a ticket, like right now, click the link and chakka-gotcha! The Rijksmuseum sits just around the corner from my apartment, a five minute walk. Motivated, I took the…
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4. KEEP TWISTING
Read More →: 4. KEEP TWISTINGPart Four from Twisting in the Wind: A Memoir of Ken Kesey at Naropa University 1994 by Keith Kumasen Abbott Sitting at the dining table, Kesey continued to drop pleasantries about my book, praising Mordecai of Monterey. I was starting to feel a little sour at the situation. Kesey could have written something to my…
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My Hand is Terrible Under the Re-Entry Stress
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Read More →: My Hand is Terrible Under the Re-Entry StressKeith Kumasen Abbott’s friendship with poet John Veglia, aka Nestor Marzipan: “I am now setting out for eccentric perfectionism. But with John gone, I’ll guess I’ll try to inherit at least part of His Quibble Crown. He was the best reader of my work I’ve ever had. Mordecai of Monterey, Harem Scarem and First Thing…
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Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985
Read More →: Reviews of Mordecai of Monterey 1985“Keith Abbott may be called a near-master of the plain-style…..Mordecai of Monterey is a straightforward touching tale…The novel is often funny…always inventive and worth pursuing. Doris Grunbach * “I was so struck by Mordecai’s melanoia I wished to immediately catch it. Aas it is symptomatic of our times that adventures and unpredictability have to be…
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Beat Scene UK
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Read More →: Beat Scene UKBeat Scene UK Winter 2024. Keith Kumasen Abbott’s article “The Dharma Bums – Kerouac’s Dust Jacket Copy” is included among many others. Read it and enjoy! Excerpt: “Kerouac had a remarkably clear vision of the values found in his novel. By stressing the religious and positive aspects of the noelwith its lovefor nature and solitude,…
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18/53 Book of Songs
Read More →: 18/53 Book of SongsA promo card for Mordecai of Monterey, 1985 Excerpt from Mordecai of Monterey by Keith Kumasen Abbott: An hour later Mordecai was standing at the foot of Rita’s stairs. He did not want to be standing there. Mordecai was having his first crisis with his mental disease. He could not believe that his melanoia had…
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Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General in Big Sur
Read More →: Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General in Big Sur“There was a ship going someplace. It was a Norwegian ship. Perhaps it was going back to Norway, carrying the hides of 163 cable cars, as part of the world commerce deal. Ah, trade: one country exchanging goods with another country, just like in grade school. They traded a rainy spring day in Oslo for…
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Persephone is still looking for Keith’s missing archival materials in Longmont: Update 29 September 2024
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