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Poe Ballantine’s second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine’s world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author’s by turns absurd and poignant voice. “The... read more
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“"Things go up and things go down. It isn't much more complicated than that. The trip will be over soon enough. Don't be afraid to try the next town. You don't ever really want it to end, anyway."”
Poe Ballantine
First Sentence edit
The place where you gave plasma looked like it had recently been a small grocery store.
Table of Contents edit
World of Trouble
My Pink Tombstone
Methamphetamine for Dummie
Conspiracy and Apocalypse at the McDonald's in Goodland, Kansas
Advice to William Somebody
501 Minutes to Christ
God's Day
Realism
Blessed Meadows for Minor Poets
Wide-Eyed in the Gaudy Shop
The Irving
Authors & Contributors edit
- Poe Ballantine (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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