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Quant a miI'm a mostly retired freelance writer (and former used bookstore owner) living in Boonville, CA. I grew up in New Jersey, went to college at Boston University and then went off to see America. I've washed dishes in San Diego, bussed tables in Seattle, waited tables in New Orleans and spent a bunch of time exploring points in between. I got lucky and landed a spot first as a volunteer and eventually as a jazz/blues producer/host at WWNO, the NPR affiliate in New Orleans. I did that from 1980 through 1986, at which point I moved to San Francisco to get an MA in Literature/Creative Writing at San Francisco State. After that I was first a teacher and then the Publications Coordinator for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. That all led up to my establishing Rocket Words, my writing & editing business, in 2000. For 11 years, I did lots of different kinds of writing for lots of different kinds of clients and publications. For about five years, I concentrated pretty heavily on jazz journalism and then went back back mostly to client work. Then for almost eight years I owned and operated Village Books in Ukiah, CA (the county seat of Mendocino County). I had a great time running the store and interacting with book lovers all day long! Now I'm retired, though kept busy for the time being with non-profit board work. I'm a huge music (jazz/rock/blues/folk) and baseball fan. Also enjoy travel and hiking. I am deliriously happily married.

Please listen to my jazz radio show, The Jazz Odyssey, every Monday afternoon from 1 to 3 pm Pacific Time (U.S.), streaming live at www.kzyx.org. KZYX is Mendocino Public Radio, Listener Supported and fueled by passion.

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la meva bibliotecaLots and lots of books waiting to be read, plus a bunch I've read and kept. My favorite authors are Joseph Conrad and Philip Roth. I also have a couple of nice, big shelves of books about baseball and a fairly well-stocked shelf about music, specifically jazz.

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Autors preferitsJoseph Conrad, Philip Roth (Preferits compartits)

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Llibreries preferidesGreen Apple Books, Laughing Dog Books, Village Books - Ukiah, Westsider Used and Rare Books

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Nom realJerry Karp

UbicacióBoonville, CA

Tipus de comptepúblic

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Membre des deJan 21, 2008

Llegint actualmentThe World's Greatest Romances (Black's Reader Services) de
Spring Sowing de Liam O'Flaherty
Rough Translations de Molly Giles
The Best American Short Stories 1957 de Martha Foley
Going to Meet the Man de James Baldwin
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities de James Thurber
The Circus of Dr. Lao de Ray Bradbury
No Cheering in the Press Box de Jerome Holtzman
Literature - Book Two de Thomas H. Briggs
Good for a Laugh: a New Collection of Humorous Tidbits and Anecdotes from Aardvark to Zythum de Bennett Cerf
Official Baseball Guide 1963 de C. C. Johnson Spink
The Background of Our War de
The Wonder Clock de Howard Pyle
Selected Essays de William Carlos Williams
Coronet - June 1, 1938 de Arnold Gingrich
Conjure Women de Afia Atakora
Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between de Laila M. El-Haddad
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