Monday, 11/12… Veterans Day! Red Room author Charles Degelman discusses his award-winning novel, Gates of Eden, a 60s tale of antiwar resistance, rebellion, and love with resonance for today's returning veterans and a new uprising! / Tune in to Berkeley-based KPFA / Denny Smithson, Cover to Cover, 3 pm.
Featured Works
Charles's Latest Blogs
Apr.20.2013 - 3:00 pm
Marathon bombs blow on a Monday. Timid gun control shrivels on a Wednesday. Same week. The speed of cruelty, the velocity of rage. Each horror morphs into a pit of squirming...
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Apr.14.2013 - 12:33 pm
If you are between the ages of 18 to 30, you might have been a part of this. Would you have written about it then? What would you write about it now?
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Jul.28.2010 - 12:42 pm
I had to be three years old. We were living in the projects. It was nighttime and I was standing in a big rocking chair. The room was full of books and records in shelves down...
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Jan.20.2010 - 11:54 am
Johnny Never Said Goodbye
from
American Postcards
(fictional snapshots about growing up absurd in 1950s America)
Gus’ old man always wore a blue oxford cloth shirt and khaki...
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Writing
Article:
Reflections on a Master of War
Short Story:
Novel Excerpt: Two-Shirt Weather
Short Story:
Short Fiction: Harmonica
Published Reviews
Oct.23.2012
Published by Cannabis Now
Of the titles to arrive since Julie Taymor's 2007 film, “Across the Universe”, Charles Degelman’s Gates of Eden, stands out as one of the best. Degelman’s expansive novel...
Change the world; it needs it. ”
—Bertolt Brecht
About Charles
Charles Degelman is a writer, editor, producer, and publisher living in Los Angeles.
He has written and produced documentary and educational films for TNT, Churchill Films, Pyramid Films, Philips Interactive Media, and others. Titles include a feature-...
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