Boychik Lit: January 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019

GPV573 Book Review - Cyber War

Show host Gerald Everett Jones reviews Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clark and Robert Knake.

We've known about the threat for a while. Haven't done much. #amwriting #selfpub #podcast #bookreview

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

GPV572 Book Review - Fludd: A Novel

Our show host Gerald Everett Jones reviews Fludd: A Novel by Hilary Mantel.

A convent in rural England in the 1950s. A stranger's visit is downright medieval. #amwriting #selfpub #podcast #bookreview

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

GPV571 Book Review - A Nasty Piece of Work

Our show host Gerald Everett Jones gives a brief review of A Nasty Piece of Work by Robert Littell.

Everybody knows a retired CIA agent can't retire. Except him. #amwriting #selfpub #podcast #bookreview

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Monday, January 28, 2019

GPV570 Book Review - Theft: A Love Story

Our host Gerald Everett Jones gives a brief review of Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey.

Is art theft a victimless crime?

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Friday, January 11, 2019

GP521 - Return of the Independent Bookstore

Host Gerald Everett Jones and his co-hosts Cheyenne Cockrell and Thomas Page discuss “The Return of the Independent Bookstore” with special guest Jack Leidner, past proprietor of Clemens & Company bookstore in Newman, Georgia. Are the indie bookstores, in fact, making a comeback? Jack responds to our questions, including:

If I told you I planned to open a new indie bookstore, what advice would you give me?
What types of books did your customers want?
The Borders bookstore chain was built on a new approach to computerized inventory. Do you think that was a good idea?
What about events? Poetry, book signings, concerts, even community events like clubs and grass-roots politics. Should a bookstore promote those?
Should an author plan to do bookstore signings and readings? Are those relevant anymore?
Do you have an opinion about Amazon’s plans to open retail bookstores that have automated cashier stations?
What’s your next business venture?

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About me...

When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher approached me and asked with a sly grin, "You interested in mining?"
I told him absolutely not. I was going to be a writer.
Little did I suspect that he wanted to send me to a student conference on metallurgy where I could seek the fellowship of like-minded teens on a minimally supervised road-trip to the Big City.
Undeterred by my abrupt negative response, he grumbled, "Well, you're interested in mining your own business, aren't you?"
And he sent me anyway.
Now I realize I should've listened more carefully to everything he said.
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Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels, including My Inflatable Friend, Rubber Babes, and Farnsworth's Revenge. His new novel is Mr. Ballpoint. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kozinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). Publishing details and press kits at La Puerta Productions.