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J.P. Smith | J.P. Smith

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Sep.07.2011
...can be found here: http://bit.ly/pFBqPt
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May.27.2011
My latest contribution to trying to make sense of my life can be found here: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/05/nowheresville/
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May.02.2011
Here's my review of the new translation from NYRB of Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/05/a-review-of-fatale-by...
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May.02.2011
Here's my review of the new translation from NYRB of Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/05/a-review-of-fatale-by...
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Apr.28.2011
Please see my latest slice of life at: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/04/almost-infamous/ 
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Apr.12.2011
Here's yet another bit of memoir, just published at The Nervous Breakdown: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/04/the-game-of-the-name/
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Mar.24.2011
Here's my latest snippet of autobiography, prompted by the recent death of Owsley Stanley: http://bit.ly/e7fyBI.
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Mar.07.2011
Is here: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2011/03/the-immortality-machine-a-review-of-coda-by-rene-belletto/ 
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Mar.03.2011
It was obvious I was innocent. But for just a few minutes I have to say that being something other than myself—a father, husband, writer—was like being in a movie. A murder mystery, but, hell, one can’t always choose one’s genre. This happened sometime in 1996. There was a message on my machine to...
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Dec.08.2010
When I first started out as a novelist, plot was the last thing on my mind. Everything was character, all was style. Partly it was due to what I’d been reading in those palmy days after grad school and who had been lately influencing me. Having had the perhaps singular and most interesting...