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Nov.24.2012
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Nov.23.2012
John Knoerle interviews John Knoerle for Literarily Speaking
Q. Why do you write?
A. In that wonderful movie Moonstruck Olympia Dukakis has an ‘aha’ moment. She has been trying to understand why men like her husband commit adultery. She figures it’s about more than just sex....
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Oct.14.2012
Paul Auster's novel, Invisible, is a novel within a novel about a man who yields his memoir, not quite finished before his death, to an old friend, a famous writer, who pieces things together in a patchy, start-and-stop, but ultimately satisfying way.
In this Auster book...
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Oct.05.2012
Chapter One
The key number to remember when you parachute out of an airplane at an altitude of five hundred feet is two. You have two seconds to do two things. Get your feet down and your cord pulled. That’s it, that’s all you need to know.
I hadn’t jumped since ‘44 so the...
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Aug.16.2012
Blood Lance by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur Books) is a medieval noir novel staring her protagonist Crispin Guest.
You may have followed Crispin Guest, known as the Tracker, throughout Westerson’s four prior medieval noir novels: Vail of Lies, Serpent in the Thornes, The Demon’s Parchment, and...
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Jun.01.2012
I love sarcasm, wit and a good mystery, so this was right up my alley! Filomena is a cop who sees too much and has become used to that. When a murder and a chemical spill start to give her a run for her money you’d think she would stay busy enough to stay out of trouble, but that’s not the...
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Feb.09.2012
"Confessions of a Sex Maniac" is a rollicking read. Hang on to your hat -- it's like being on a roller-coaster on acid, flying through a theme park of sex, death, and at times lurid description. Part noir, part erotica, part sheer mania, it left me breathless. http://bit.ly/xP8dXI
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Feb.07.2012
David Henry Sterry paints a very vivid picture in Confessions of a Sex Maniac. I could totally identify with the feeling of powerlessness and in the grips of the Snow Leopard. It grabbed me, made me laugh, chewed me up and scared me half to death. Well done. A great read. - Matthew Hayduck
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Jan.31.2012
Reading Confessions of a Sex Maniac is like drinking a shot of the finest whiskey. It's smooth and spicy; goes down oh-so-fast, but leaves a trail in your memory; makes you want more even though you should really go to bed. Sterry's writing is insanely fun to read. And the characters in this story...
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Jan.29.2012
CONFESSIONS OF A SEX MANIAC A novella by David Henry Sterry
11 o’clock Monday night I was standing in the nasty skank stink of a body-fluid-scented room of Felipe’s Massage Parlor. There was no Felipe. No one was there for a massage. The wall was stained with what...
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