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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"When you ride with someone else, you ride with their luck... I made that rule number two. Rule number one. Learn to read people’s face’s better, Johnnyboy. Learn or die."
"...the air was getting vile. The singing in his ears had become the noise of a waterfall, and his head seemed to be swimming round in a Saturn-ring of streaky light..."
"With only a couple of albums under his belt, his life was suddenly taken. If he were alive today, those who knew him speculate, there's no doubt he would be very big."
“Orator and entrepreneur, statesman and pioneer, depressive and overachiever”: Meet one of the original 'Mad Men' who made SunKist, Kleenex, Quaker Oats, Palmolive, and Pepsodent household names.
The old Irish poetic form the Aisling - “vision-poem” - serves as a vehicle to illustrate the enigmatic and experimental dream-vision surrealism that marks a poet's life.
Featured: Mona Simpson. Plus: Artemis Fowl, Nevada Barr, Charlaine Harris, Philippa Gregory, Deveraux, Faye Kellerman, Ridley Pearson; Dave Mustaine, Churchill's Empire, Strays of Afghanistan...
Featured: Gilded Age 'Tale of Madness and Murder'. Plus: Anne Frank Graphic Bio, The Temptress; Evanovich, Johansen, Gear, Modesitt, James Robinson, Sean Williams, Daniel Silva...
Featured: James Lee Burke. Plus: Stiefvater, Jennifer Weiner, Alison Weir, French, Alexander McCall Smith, Reich, Laurence Gonzales; Laura Ingraham, Rob Sheffield, 'Twain', Tuohy, Why Europe?...
The witty and droll Frost touches upon such topics as blogaholism, iPuppies, and an inclination to modernize Henry James with exclamation marks!: "Live all you can!!!!! It's a mistake not to!!!!!!"
Featured: David Mitchell. Plus: James Patterson, Richard North Patterson, Gerritsen, Eisler, McCaffrey, Thor; Wall Street Insanity, Wealthy Widows, NO Saints, Zombie Banks, It's Maggie's World...
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