I would love to get a book of yours, but not from Amazon. I do not do Amazon.
I recall the "Obsured Americans" series of essays that made it on to TUR, conversations from Camden, NJ and Philly. Those writings are want have drawn my interest to your inescapably, honest offerings that you are sharing now.
It's a compilation of articles, going back years, that deal with writers and other cultural figures, including pop singers. In many of them, I do veer into tangents.
Sounds great--I went ahead and bought the hard copy. I broke my long-standing Amazon boycott to do so, understanding that self-published authors really have few other options. After AWS silenced Parler, I quit patronizing them in protest, only using them one other time since then to buy something I needed and couldn't find anywhere else.
What a glory you are, Linh Dinh. Since you are finite, at least in your human persona, as are we all, we must cherish you while you are in our midst. We may all eventually join up in some other place or time, but right now you are our eyes and ears on the real world outside our door. I will buy one of your physical books to keep under my pillow. It may soothe my aching brain when the night demons descend.
I bought Obscured Americans and Kafka, Anti-Semite. I'm not really a fan of poetry so didn't get Blue Threads. So happy you are doing this. Hope you sell a lot of books! Many blessings, hope your health continues to improve. Peggy
Just reading your Kafka etc book. Excellent essays as expected but, so far, was really struck by Flannery O'Connor immediately following Hemingway's Short Happy Life etc.
Early Hemingway was a great combination of popular entertainment and art. His stories like Short, Happy Life still resonate today just like those of other great writers through the ages. they shined a spotlight on eternal truths. I would be surprised if Americans, especially women, in the 30s wanted to hear those truths but they seem to have appreciated them as witnessed by Hemingway's popularity.
O'Connor meanwhile is like most modern novelists and nearly all journalists. She is a court jester who entertains the elite and managerial class by assuring them that they are superior to those evil Southern, truck drivers and small farmers.
Joan Didion said style is character but so is what you do with all that style. Magazines like The Atlantic and New Yorker are filled with artfully written articles that, like O'Connor's stories, just promulgate the lies of the rulers that the managerial class demands to hear so that they can assure themselves that they are superior mentally and morally.
Hi Linh, is Obscured Americans similar format as Postcards from the End? (which I am currently reading and enjoying) Or is it more of a portrait book with interviews?
Each portrait starts with a short intro by me, then the rest is the subject talking about himself, without interruptions. It's his or her voice you're hearing.
A bunch of these were conducted in Friendly Lounge, my neighborhood bar in Philly. One was done on a flight from Detroit to Philly. The one with Rudy Dent, the 9/11 first responder, was done in a car in Detroit.
I just bookmarked two of your books. My next pay I will order at least your short stories. My income is very limited just now with health problems rising fast and I'm on a pension. I know your efforts are worth it though so count on it.
Yes, time is short.
I've reached a critical junction in the progress of the Fauci Fleas which my early bout with CONVID left in me. I've been doing what I can but there's not much promise at this stage. Coenzyme Q-10 and just started back on Dhamasa both of which show promise, but my BP has gone ballistic very fast. Minor exercise sends me reeling with chest pains and increasingly easily and often. it's unhelpful to be surrounded with shedding Fauci Fleas from others and my own self generating supply it would seem. Just glad I'm not getting headaches and other nastiness, though the chest pains which spread out into shoulders too are bad enough.
I'd convinced myself it was gastric and with various other organs in trouble it is that too, but there's no doubt my blood is thickening and fast. I always believed my brain would be the last fully functioning organ, and it looks like I was right about that at least. I've got to go to hospital tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully we can get my blood pressure under better control but it's unhelpful when the doctors don't acknowledge or even know about the actual cause. I'm seeing friends who got jabbed going into rapid decline too. I feel ripped off having been so early awake to the crap, and having the perfect cure for the thing already ordered by February 2020. only in April I realised I'd already been stung in 2019. Too early to even guess then but thought the pneumonia was the worst of my problems. I lost a fair bit of lung capacity. Soon enough though the so-called long Covid called and it's been a battle ever since.
That's by way of an explanation as to why I've been less attentive recently. I'm still a very devoted follower of your observations Linh. We may be a small audience but I think most of us get you pretty well. Best of luck in your endeavours. If I can beat this debilitating shitstorm I'll possibly catch up with you in time. My goal is to get out of this increasingly dark shithole and get back to SE Asia and I've got a plan if I live long enough. Just having to get used to the realisation my end is going to be very sudden though and can happen any day now. I've been making a few simple accomodations in case. Told the only 4 authentic people I have close to my heart what I think of them. Making sure my precious baby girl, Plossum, will be safe, in case I have to go to her mummy before her. Telling one "old friend" that I know what a lying, thieving, covetous sack of shit he is and always was. I'm doing what I can to ensure others who he's preying on should be free of his poisonous influence. As you do.
Even though it's recorded, I'm making a point of filling my space with some music I hold dear. This one does touch me deeply. It makes me glad I was here, and reaches down into the core of the best of humanity. Which for me was enjoyed more vicariously I confess. My own sojourn among human kind hasn't been all that rewarding frankly, yet I got the gist of it anyway. Starting to enjoy things like insects, wild plants and sunsets knowing I might be seeing them for the last time any time. Not maudlin, I feel blessed actually to have eyes to see. I think most come and go without much inspiration, thinking their own swag of things and direct experience is their total score. My heart is lonely, but very full.
I think it's 10 to 18+. Amazon didn't have 100+ or I would have chosen it too!
Editing my poems, I realized they're mostly about pain, and I don't mean my own but everyone's. It's true, though, that I was even more of a pain in the ass, to myself even, as a young man.
Hi everyone,
The 204-page paperback edition of Kafka, Anti-Semite is now available at Amazon for $11.99:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTR6B9H6?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520
Linh
I just bought it. Also, bought Obscured Americans.
Amazon is fine with me. They usually have everything I want, and fast delivery.
I would love to get a book of yours, but not from Amazon. I do not do Amazon.
I recall the "Obsured Americans" series of essays that made it on to TUR, conversations from Camden, NJ and Philly. Those writings are want have drawn my interest to your inescapably, honest offerings that you are sharing now.
Hi, Linh--I recognize your other titles, but is the "Kafka" book something you just assembled recently?
Hi JustPlainBill,
It's a compilation of articles, going back years, that deal with writers and other cultural figures, including pop singers. In many of them, I do veer into tangents.
Linh
Sounds great--I went ahead and bought the hard copy. I broke my long-standing Amazon boycott to do so, understanding that self-published authors really have few other options. After AWS silenced Parler, I quit patronizing them in protest, only using them one other time since then to buy something I needed and couldn't find anywhere else.
Good luck with your sales!
What a glory you are, Linh Dinh. Since you are finite, at least in your human persona, as are we all, we must cherish you while you are in our midst. We may all eventually join up in some other place or time, but right now you are our eyes and ears on the real world outside our door. I will buy one of your physical books to keep under my pillow. It may soothe my aching brain when the night demons descend.
I bought Obscured Americans and Kafka, Anti-Semite. I'm not really a fan of poetry so didn't get Blue Threads. So happy you are doing this. Hope you sell a lot of books! Many blessings, hope your health continues to improve. Peggy
Just reading your Kafka etc book. Excellent essays as expected but, so far, was really struck by Flannery O'Connor immediately following Hemingway's Short Happy Life etc.
Early Hemingway was a great combination of popular entertainment and art. His stories like Short, Happy Life still resonate today just like those of other great writers through the ages. they shined a spotlight on eternal truths. I would be surprised if Americans, especially women, in the 30s wanted to hear those truths but they seem to have appreciated them as witnessed by Hemingway's popularity.
O'Connor meanwhile is like most modern novelists and nearly all journalists. She is a court jester who entertains the elite and managerial class by assuring them that they are superior to those evil Southern, truck drivers and small farmers.
Joan Didion said style is character but so is what you do with all that style. Magazines like The Atlantic and New Yorker are filled with artfully written articles that, like O'Connor's stories, just promulgate the lies of the rulers that the managerial class demands to hear so that they can assure themselves that they are superior mentally and morally.
Hi Linh,
Just purchased the paperback on Amazon and I look forward to reading it!
Thank you.
Hi Linh, is Obscured Americans similar format as Postcards from the End? (which I am currently reading and enjoying) Or is it more of a portrait book with interviews?
Hi J.G. Carbone,
Each portrait starts with a short intro by me, then the rest is the subject talking about himself, without interruptions. It's his or her voice you're hearing.
A bunch of these were conducted in Friendly Lounge, my neighborhood bar in Philly. One was done on a flight from Detroit to Philly. The one with Rudy Dent, the 9/11 first responder, was done in a car in Detroit.
Linh
I just bookmarked two of your books. My next pay I will order at least your short stories. My income is very limited just now with health problems rising fast and I'm on a pension. I know your efforts are worth it though so count on it.
Yes, time is short.
I've reached a critical junction in the progress of the Fauci Fleas which my early bout with CONVID left in me. I've been doing what I can but there's not much promise at this stage. Coenzyme Q-10 and just started back on Dhamasa both of which show promise, but my BP has gone ballistic very fast. Minor exercise sends me reeling with chest pains and increasingly easily and often. it's unhelpful to be surrounded with shedding Fauci Fleas from others and my own self generating supply it would seem. Just glad I'm not getting headaches and other nastiness, though the chest pains which spread out into shoulders too are bad enough.
I'd convinced myself it was gastric and with various other organs in trouble it is that too, but there's no doubt my blood is thickening and fast. I always believed my brain would be the last fully functioning organ, and it looks like I was right about that at least. I've got to go to hospital tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully we can get my blood pressure under better control but it's unhelpful when the doctors don't acknowledge or even know about the actual cause. I'm seeing friends who got jabbed going into rapid decline too. I feel ripped off having been so early awake to the crap, and having the perfect cure for the thing already ordered by February 2020. only in April I realised I'd already been stung in 2019. Too early to even guess then but thought the pneumonia was the worst of my problems. I lost a fair bit of lung capacity. Soon enough though the so-called long Covid called and it's been a battle ever since.
That's by way of an explanation as to why I've been less attentive recently. I'm still a very devoted follower of your observations Linh. We may be a small audience but I think most of us get you pretty well. Best of luck in your endeavours. If I can beat this debilitating shitstorm I'll possibly catch up with you in time. My goal is to get out of this increasingly dark shithole and get back to SE Asia and I've got a plan if I live long enough. Just having to get used to the realisation my end is going to be very sudden though and can happen any day now. I've been making a few simple accomodations in case. Told the only 4 authentic people I have close to my heart what I think of them. Making sure my precious baby girl, Plossum, will be safe, in case I have to go to her mummy before her. Telling one "old friend" that I know what a lying, thieving, covetous sack of shit he is and always was. I'm doing what I can to ensure others who he's preying on should be free of his poisonous influence. As you do.
Even though it's recorded, I'm making a point of filling my space with some music I hold dear. This one does touch me deeply. It makes me glad I was here, and reaches down into the core of the best of humanity. Which for me was enjoyed more vicariously I confess. My own sojourn among human kind hasn't been all that rewarding frankly, yet I got the gist of it anyway. Starting to enjoy things like insects, wild plants and sunsets knowing I might be seeing them for the last time any time. Not maudlin, I feel blessed actually to have eyes to see. I think most come and go without much inspiration, thinking their own swag of things and direct experience is their total score. My heart is lonely, but very full.
https://youtu.be/1gX1EP6mG-E?si=ZMu25fF0Wh_-8uii
Cool. The Obscured American ones with photos looks pretty nice. You should do one with the pictures of Vietnam / Southeast Asia too.
you are ok Linh Dinh all I have got, after twnty years of writing is a Tee shirt and a coffee mug
Did Carlo Parcelli finally get his head straight on the entire CuntySars travesty? I hope he did - used to love his writings.
Hi Nika,
I think it's 10 to 18+. Amazon didn't have 100+ or I would have chosen it too!
Editing my poems, I realized they're mostly about pain, and I don't mean my own but everyone's. It's true, though, that I was even more of a pain in the ass, to myself even, as a young man.
Linh