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Alan Kaufman's DRUNKEN ANGEL
Feb.10.2012
Meet the author at Bird and Beckett Books, Afikomin

 

San Francisco
February 19 : Bird & Beckett

Berkeley
February 23 : Afikomen Judaica

Mountain View
April 11 : East West Bookstore

 

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Alan's Latest Blogs

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Dec.22.2010 - 7:03 pm
FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO (From Litseen.com)
First session of FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
http://litseen.com/2010/12/22/free-university-an-experiment-in-education...
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Aug.15.2010 - 3:36 pm
Promethean Royalty: Secret Secretaries by Alan Kaufman (From 3A.M. Magazine)
Alan Kaufman, author of JEW BOY, a memoir and MATCHES, a novel; editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/promethean-royalty-the-secret-secretaries/   Promethean Royalty: The Secret Secretaries By Alan Kaufman. [Images: Charles Kruger] I guess it...
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Aug.03.2010 - 1:27 pm
DAVID TWERSKY: A Man In The Heart Of History by Alan Kaufman
http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/a-man-in-the-heart-of-history...   A man in the heart of history A friend and follower mourns the...
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Jul.26.2010 - 3:49 pm
Astral Projection, Hugging Trees and BBQ Chicken WIngs: Things Carl Little Crow and I Did Together To Stay Sober in San Francisc
Alan Kaufman, author of JEW BOY, a memoir and MATCHES, a novel; editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
http://www.salon.com/feature/1998/05/cov_14feature.html   I was 37 and a half years old, raised in the Bronx, penniless, prideful, a paranoid schizophrenic, overeducated...
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Comments from Alan

Oct.21.2009 - 12:44 am
In response to: The Electronic Book Burning--Alan Kaufman's essay in the new EVERGREEN REVIEW on hi-tech's destruction of the book
The Evergreen Review
http://evergreenreview.com/120/index.html
Feb.29.2008 - 11:22 pm
In response to: Charles Bukowski Was The Ultimate Outsider Poet
Response to Kim Hoffman:Bukowski was the quintessential outsider
Dear Kim, thanks for writing. Your comments are welcome and appreciated. I must say, though, I find it hard to imagine...
Feb.04.2008 - 1:11 am
In response to: Statement on Zionism from 'The Zionist Five'
Dear Belle Yang
Dear Belle Yang Thank you for your interest and praise of the painting behind me in the photo. It is 6 feet by 5 feet,...
Feb.04.2008 - 12:25 am
In response to: Charles Bukowski Was The Ultimate Outsider Poet
Thank you, Abe
Thank you for taking time to read my blog. Reading Bukowski is one of life's great and enduring pleasures.
Feb.04.2008 - 12:21 am
In response to: On The Autobahn
Nanking
Dear Belle, How strange that you should write to me about this, as just days ago I sat in a movie theater, watching a...

Writing

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Article: From The Evergreen Review: The Electronic Boolkburning by Alan Kaufman
Article: From Huffington Post---Google Books and Kindles: A Concentration Camp of Ideas

Published Reviews

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Feb.10.2012
Drunken Angel
Published by Publishers Weekly
"Whether the subject is parental abuse, alcoholism, or the travails of the writing life, Kaufman’s (Jew Boy; Matches) memoir violently grabs your attention, refusing to let up...
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Audio & Video

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Video: Connie Martinson Talks Books With Guest Alan Kaufman, Author of DRUNKEN ANGEL
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Video: Alan Kaufman's Drunken Angel - Book Trailer
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Video: Alan Kaufman's Opening Remarks At The Mechanics Institute Library Panel: "Is The Book Dead: High Tech and The Written Word"
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—Hubert Selby Jr.

About Alan

Alan Kaufman's new memoir, Drunken Angel, will appear in the Fall of this year from Viva Editions. His novel Matches was published by Little, Brown and Company in the Fall of 2005. David Mamet has called Matches "an extraordinary war novel," and Dave Eggers...
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