"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Gordon Hauptfleisch
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 443
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 443
Gordon Hauptfleisch is a Blogcritics Books Editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer for San Diego Union Tribune Books (R.I.P.). For many years he worked in and managed bookstores and record stores, when not engaged in serious lollygagging. He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. Other than that he doesn't like talking about himself, but you may email him and he'll stop talking about himself in the third-person.
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In the role of her career, Hedy Lamarr laid the groundwork for such modern conveniences as mobile and cordless telephones, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
No, this has nothing much to do with Star Trek, but it is an enterprising collection of nine diverse stories of wit and whimsy by Thomas P. Balázs.
"Eternal abstractions, fashionable imbecilities, words used without regard to their implicit fatuity or chicanery”: Koenig’s witty and mordant book of brickbats and bon mots updates the Bierce classic.
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in, and came up with this tragically inexhaustive compendium of musical treats that scare me trickless.
Come to the Damascus, the anti-Cheers where everybody knows your business or your back story, and where “every interchange was a con, every night, a pitiful costume party,”
Strikingly-told family drama, psychological novel, reality on cement blocks. Simmering Us vs. Them tensions threaten peace between God-fearing small town and impoverished and abusive backwoods neighbors.
In this absorbing debut an aspiring musician has plans to breakaway from the con-artist ways of his rudderless woman-chasing father and alcoholic ex-con grandfather.
If the brooding “Hang Down Your Head” finds instrumental complement with Rain Dogs' more adventurous raucousness, it distinguishes itself with its heartfelt simplicity and directness.
If you hate Dave Matthews you'll love this novel. The death of Joey Ramone triggers a life-altering course of events for the protagonist of Rose’s debut novel.
A poignant and disquieting song of solace and serendipity set to an infectiously melodic and rollicking carnival tune.
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