How hard is it to determine whether Moby Dick or Huck Finn is the greatest American Novel? I know it’s a short list. Yes, Twain deals with the societal issue of the time that was tearing the country apart, slavery and in that respect it is as real as it can be. In contrast, the lyricism of his writingContinue reading “Captain Ahab and Tom Sawyer are kindred souls: an excerpt from Chapter 8 of Out West: A California Memoir (wipfandstock.com) coming out Winter 2021”
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An Excerpt From Out West: A California Memoir (working title)-Chapter 1
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” Romans 7:15 “I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” T.S. Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Out West: A California Memoir 1 TheContinue reading “An Excerpt From Out West: A California Memoir (working title)-Chapter 1”
An Excerpt from Hard Knocks: Chapter 5 of Memoir of a Small Moment (wipfandstock.com) due out in late summer/early fall
I started drinking when I was nine, and became an alcoholic by the age of ten. Not full blown of course; it takes a long time to drink into that state of mind and body where every thought, every small moment, is fueled by thirsty neurotransmitters, which once resolved, even with only a thought, aContinue reading “An Excerpt from Hard Knocks: Chapter 5 of Memoir of a Small Moment (wipfandstock.com) due out in late summer/early fall”
Ray Lopez, evangelist, writer, ordained minister, ministering to the hardcore, one at a time. 