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Mar.18.2011
From the moment I first put my hands on my father's musty-odored copy of William Faulkner's SANCTUARY, with its lurid jacket art, its sharp-grained black and white author photo, and its words of praise for the author's efforts, I wanted to be a published writer. The very thought that someone--a...
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Nov.06.2009
A great bookstore is a time machine. You enter at 2 PM for a quick browse and exit after sundown with no sense of time's passage. And great small bookstores, like some wonderful steampunk contraption of brass and jewel, seem to exist perpetually in an imagined Victorian era--the age of books, the...
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Oct.29.2009
Where I grew up, the leaves were nearly gone by Halloween, but the first pitiless blast of winter had yet to be felt. This always made October 31 a singular date. A neither/nor time, a turning time, as in "the turning of the year." An in-between time. A time when the door between this...
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Oct.22.2009
L.A. is a prism. And because it's a prism hammered three-hundred thirty-three days a year with blazing, unrelenting white light, where you stand determines which part of its spectrum you'll see. Personally, my favorite angle of view is from five-thousand, eight-hundred feet above, atop the recently...
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Jun.26.2009
HOW I MET THE GODDESS
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-06-18/art-books/old-world-meets-new-age-in-thriller-quot-nowhere-land-quot/
The pretty girl came to me on the playground with a folded note in hand. She was 13, I was 13, so we were equals in age if not in experience. Girls are always older, no...
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May.22.2009
Mystery. From the Greek Mysterion. Dictionary definition 1. a religious truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand. Dictionary definition 2. something not understood or beyond understanding
As God is my witness...oh, screw it, that sounds too grandiose and some snarky...
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May.01.2009
There's a great story that legendary film producer Robert Evans tells about the first distribution of Robert Towne's "Chinatown" screenplay. The movie, as everyone knows, is an enormously complicated tale of corruption of body, soul, and spirit in 1930's Los Angeles. Long before the...
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Mar.26.2009
Do women use sex for barter? I hear a resounding "Well, Duh!" from my imaginary audience--males and females both. But for someone like me, who feels forever on the dark side of common knowledge, the possibility that the satisfaction of erotic longing is subject to market forces seems...
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Mar.25.2009
I don't know if it's possible to be both an optimist and a fatalist, but if it is, I guess that describes me. I couldn't get through the writing of a book if I didn't believe it was going to turn heads, but I never really believe it's going to see print until the galleys are done and the publisher...
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Aug.10.2008
Dispatch from L.A.: Now that I'm back (sadly, it's only temporary) in Stephan Raszer's Old Hollywoodland stomping grounds, I may be able blog with a bit more gusto. I met Raszer for drinks on his beloved Franklin Ave strip last night and found him quietly happy about the fact that a cadre of anti-...
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Aug.10.2008
This just in: Counterpoint Press, the Berkeley-based imprint founded by Avalon chief Charlie Winton, has picked up the new Stephan Raszer Investigation, NOWHERE~LAND, for a Spring 09 hardcover publication. The author, needless to say, is over the moon. Counterpoint's cutting edge non-fiction is a...
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Apr.14.2008
Raszer's Edge
March 20
It's 2 A.M. and the doorbell just rang. What the hell's that about? My wife and child are safe in bed, and I have no kin in this part of town. I live in an old, multi-unit co-op and the doorbell is interior, which means that whoever is outside my door is inside the building....
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—Ovid
About A.W.
A.W. Hill is the author of three published novels, NOWHERE-LAND (Counterpoint 2009), THE LAST DAYS OF MADAME REY (Carroll & Graf 2007) and ENOCH'S PORTAL (Champion Press, 2002). PORTAL was optioned by Paramount Pictures and became a Booksense Mystery...
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A.W.’s Favorite Books
"Damascus Gate" by Robert Stone "Outerbridge Reach" by Robert Stone The Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick "Reflections In A Golden Eye" by Carson McCullers "We...