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My Pal Splendid Man: January 2010

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My Pal Splendid Man. A humor book in progress by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. Friday, January 1, 2010. Episode One. Splendid Man's Literary Discoveries. I opened the window, moved aside, and vibrated the teeth of my SOS Comb. Splendid Man zoomed into the room before I could count to one. 8220;What’s the trouble, Will? 8221; he said. 8220;I lost my damn keys,” I said. 8220;Where did you last see them? 8220;That’s easily taken care of, Will. What time did you get home? 8220;About 6:30.”. 8220;You’d ...

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Gerard Jones: March 2015

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Cool internet thing: About six years ago, while engaged in a conversation in the comments section of Farran Smith Nehme. S wonderful film blog, Self-Styled Siren. I expressed my long-time fondness for Martin Rosen. And somehow, when the people at the Criterion Collection. Were preparing their restoration of the movie last year, their fabulous editor Liz Helfgott discovered those remarks, buried deep in the Siren. Based on what they...

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Gerard Jones: Nation of Faith & Flesh

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Friday, August 7, 2015. Nation of Faith and Flesh. A few months ago I wrote about about how I. D come up with. 8220;God, the Flesh and America. As the working title for m. Y book in progress. The more it rolled around in my head, though, the more it annoyed me. There are just too many of those noun-noun-conjunction-noun titles. The book I. M writing is pretty unusual, has a distinct voice and rhythm, and I didn. M calling it Nation of Faith and Flesh.

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Gerard Jones: June 2015

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Friday, June 12, 2015. Between J and K. But we were getting very creative at finding ways to spend time together. Which made it seem awfully significant when this is what appeared in our yearbook:. At least. Jennie, ever more realistic, saw it as nothing but an alphabetical accident. (She was far more concerned with the fact that they. But I was determined to find meaning in it. Some months later, in the sad but warm spell after we. M not silly enough to.

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Gerard Jones: Watership Down

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Cool internet thing: About six years ago, while engaged in a conversation in the comments section of Farran Smith Nehme. S wonderful film blog, Self-Styled Siren. I expressed my long-time fondness for Martin Rosen. And somehow, when the people at the Criterion Collection. Were preparing their restoration of the movie last year, their fabulous editor Liz Helfgott discovered those remarks, buried deep in the Siren. Based on what they...

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Gerard Jones: Coast to Coast in 100 Years

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Sunday, June 1, 2014. Coast to Coast in 100 Years. The idea and the approximate route of this highway had been announced in 1913, so the Lincoln Highway Association celebrated its centennial last year, with speeches and car shows and fireworks and all that. But as I read about it, I couldn’t help feeling that if I were were going to commemorate the moment when the highway came into being ( if. So the day I would celebrate (like I say, if. I would set out...

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Gerard Jones: First Baby

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Well, this is fun! Ve been running my. Workshops at the San Francisco Writers. For a few years, and I. Ve had some great experiences helping other writers pull their books together, but this is the first of those books to see print. It. S from a smaller publisher, but it. S legit: on sale in bookstores and airports, carried by Ingram and other major distributors. It. Heart of the story. The last couple of years I. S a lot more livel...

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Gerard Jones: April 2015

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. The Mickey Rooney Memorial Newspaper Rack. This is one of those things that fascinates me but I ca. Really tell you why. There are a lot of newspaper vending boxes left empty in my neighborhood, as there are in most neighborhoods, installed years ago when people still actually bought their news printed on paper, abandoned over the past few years. Some distributor or other sold USA Today. S paper, if I hadn ’. T know why that matte...

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Gerard Jones: July 2015

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Friday, July 3, 2015. The Whole USA in One Chorus. Independence Eve and watching an old movie called Blues in the Night. Not a masterpiece. Rough and hasty, plot depends on a ridiculous turn, Richard Whorf isn. T strong enough to carry the lead, Betty Field plays a femme fatale. Like a bad parody of Judy Holliday. But there are great things in it. Songs by Arlen and Mercer (that odd, compelling title. Halop, Priscilla Lane (as a character named. S five g...

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Gerard Jones: January 2015

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Writing books, teaching writing, and other things. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Happy 125th, Old Man. Ve learned about myself as a writer is that I can. T write well about someone unless I. Ve come to care about them. There. S a process of building compassion and connection I have to go through that. S not unlike the process of building a friendship. And unless I hang in with it, the story I tell is going to be too cool and too distant to make anyone care. Came out that some of the Major. S Superman, saw ...