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  • Long-time dream to come true

    March 4, 2010

    •   News & Events Book Signing and Reading by Larry Baker On Tuesday, March 16, the Foundation will host "An Evening with Larry Baker" at Andalusia.  Baker's novel A Good Man (Ice Cube Books, 2009) is the story of Harry ...
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  • How did A GOOD MAN get written?

    June 10, 2009

    • An idea becomes a story, and thenthe story becomes a different story.I wanted to write about a preacher who was a phony, an updated Elmer Gantry story. He was to be a modern tele-evangelist who was more a scam artist than a man of God. It was not an original idea, but most stories aren’t. So I looked for my own angle. How about a black preacher? That itself was not a radical idea, but I knew it ...
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  • Finally, my long national nightmare is over---a new book being published

    June 6, 2009

    • After years of nail biting and pouting in front of my wife, I found a home for my new novel.  With the perfect publisher---somebody who got the manuscript on a Wednesday and told me the following Saturday that he would like to publish it. Release date is September 23. Feel free to pre-order a dozen copies for yourself and friends. The story? A Good ManSynopsisHarry Ducharme is at the end of his ...
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  • Athens is and is not Iowa City

    February 15, 2008

    • “I live in Athens, Iowa…Like all college towns, an island of art and intellect and tax supported affluence, a world safe from the crime and poverty and shameless hucksterism of the rest of America. Or so we tell ourselves. We’re different. We’re better. We live the life of the mind.”Write what you know.As a writing cliché, “write what you know” is the gold standard. Of course, by ...
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  • A Cautionary Tale?

    January 19, 2008

    • My Career as Cautionary Tale?Even on a clear day, the publishing business can be murky. Clarity is always there for some writers, those who sell books and make a profit for their houses. Sometimes those are actually well-written books, often not. But a book in print that makes dollars always makes sense. A few years ago, I was paid a big advance for my first novel, The Flamingo Rising. It ...
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