You might like this book. It's partly about a woman who's had migraines for twenty years...then they go away. It's a miracle. Or is it. Don't read it if you don't like it. Thanks. G.
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Oh, and while you're clicking links, the acid chapter is the single most defining chapter of the time, the chapter everyone else left out because it's impossible to write. Ask them.
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...the girl in the faded blue pioneer dress, etc. You’ll see. Or not.
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So many: Thulin. Gordon Lish...
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...the Shakespeare guy (very mature)...
#pictured #Proust #nightgown #bald #Shakespeare #heroin #DrSeuss #hilarious #hot #Sacramento #BobDylan #Layladylay #KamaSurta #audience #candles #frog #fuck #callitsleep #magnified #Angie #RollingStones #zoo #left
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Plenty of other carefully recaptured people populate the place; my dead dad...
#therose #Ashland #cancer #YogiBerra, #cribbage #chainsaw #DanRather #ArtLinkletter #hospice #ladies #spongebath #sad #HumphreyBogart #DonKnotts #drunk #AA #insurance #donkey
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Her four-year-old little girl, Wendy, is at least a fourth-and-a-half main character. She shows up everywhere, for a long time, until 2004. #drivingrange #FrankSinatra #Colma #cemetery #scruffy #ducks #grandchildren #like #score #groundskeeper #fantasy
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In the second, we get to know Melanie, the fourth main character, on a bluff by the ocean in 1969.
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#taichi #themission #laundry #gum #kid #love #lsd #alltoourselves #lions #sutroheights #crying #abuse #goodness
Elliot Felton (also now dead) and I meet Virginia Good, the third main character, on New Year’s Eve of 1962. #YmaSumac #SanMateo #mother #MilesDavis #HankWilliams #father #FBI #saltlake #SamCooke #pacifist #football #refrigerator #plush #panoramic #view
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They might find themselves decent publishers or production companies someday, but I'll be long gone by the time they do.
Here are two sample chapters by way of an introduction: In the first, two of the main characters... #Mormon #Specialforces #greenberet
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The story is shown as if you’re us, Ginny, me, Elliot, Melanie, Wendy...and all the rest. I’m not going to explain anything. Res ipsa loquitur. Take a look, click some links...or not. I've got nothing to gain either way. I made the books. That was what I wanted to do. I did it. Yippie! #Yippee
Listening to (or reading or watching) Ginny Good you’ll know what it was actually like to have been running around in that very short time, all of it, beginning to end...and a good portion of the rest of the century, as well. Haight-Ashbury wasn’t what you’ve been led to believe. #haight-ashbury
...not better or worse, just different.
Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion got lots of surface things right, but they missed the underlying wit, humor, heartbreak, sophistication and charm of real people living their little lives inside a cultural volcano. #booksky #didion #wolfe #surface #sophistication
She should also be thought of as a counterbalance to her younger sister, Sandy, of Manson family infamy. Ginny and Sandy deserve at least equal notoriety. If they hadn't neutralized each other back then, you'd be a different person than you are now... #you
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She's a cross between Zelda Fitzgerald and Anais Nin...funny, spiritual, ballsy, cute, childlike and a full-blown, stark raving lunatic when it gets close to Christmas again. Ginny's been dead for quite a while now, but she played a tiny part in the way we all live our lives today. #lunatic #dead
Ginny Good was essential to the counterculture of mid-century America. She was the first hippie, for one thing. I have proof, documentary evidence. Check it out.
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#counterculture #mid-century #America #proof #first #hippie #evidence #checkitout #foronething
...mainly in San Francisco. You get to hang out with them. It'll be a multi-episode TV series someday. It’s already a multimedia audio book.
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#sanfrancisco #hangout #multiepisode #tvseries #someday #multimedia #audiobook #watch #listen #absorb
The other thirty-four chapters do nothing of the kind. You can read, listen to and/or watch the whole thing and become more and more acquainted with the four complex kids on the cusp of becoming adults in the sixties... #chapters #read #listen #watch #sixties
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The true one, Ginny Good, demystifies the sixties in San Francisco, sixty years after the fact. It's mostly true, i.e., narrative nonfiction. It's intimate, edifying, authentic, etc. The first chapter talks about golf, lawyers and Courtney Love. #golf
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...the book itself is as inoffensive as it is charming, delightful, thoughtful and...um...romantic. You'll like it. Read it and see.
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It's flat-out literary fiction, set in Chicago and having partly to do with the effects of 9/11. It's a completely made-up story; nothing in it happened. The last thing anyone ever wants to do is piss off Oprah, I know, but despite its title... #oprah #chicago #twintowers #terrorists #title #pissoff
Two Books: One True; the Other Utter Fiction. Both are wonderful; cinematic, entertaining, absorbing, etc., not your run of the mill "bestsellers." Toss them if you want, but you should at least know a little about them first. The problematic one is Oprah's Dead Son. #oprah #bestseller #problematic
I've given up on "traditional" publishing or self-promotion, but I've always liked trying to get an agent or a publisher or a moviemaker...or to get some hype for my stuff so now I've started sending out anti-query letters and anti-pitches to lit agents, publishers, moviemakers and media, to wit:
Not to be a killjoy but Pretti said "Fuck you" a lot to ice agents and it appears that he kicked one of their cars. Sticks and stones, etc. If he kicked a cop car there was probable cause to arrest him. There doesn't appear to be any cause to kill him, however. #Trump #Pretti #Ice #murder #fascism
A murderer is allowed scores of years to appeal his death sentence. Billions are spent trying to cure the incurable. Life is precious. And yet we shoot a healthy, law-abiding mother in the face and a nurse five more times after he's already dead. How precious is life? #trump #ice #life #maga #ack
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This is the most concise, eloquent recap I've seen, and I've seen as many of them as I could stomach. What you've got is two old lunatics with narcissistic personality disorder who control 92 percent of the nukes on earth bumping heads. Yikes. #trump #australia #npd
How Not to Sell a Book or Two: A Writers Guide to the Publishing Hodgepodge: #writing #litagents #booksky #publishers #query #agency #books #writing #bookwriting #bookpublishing #literaryagent #querymanager #readers #books #literature #art #rejection #dumb
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“...a way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs...” i.e. nobody can stop history. It goes on and on in various surprising ways until it stops.
...very likely just as happily or unhappily...and the definition of fascism would be considerably different. We could've lost the Revolutionary War or the Civil War, and we did lose the Vietnam War...
