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Member: batty

Library823 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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TagsFiction; Literary Novels (389), Art/Photography/Design (48), Desert SW; Lit/Nat Hist/Cultures (45), Fiction; Short Stories (37), Food & Wine (34), Cookbooks (31), Reference (29), Culture History & Language (25), Collections; Essays & Fiction (23) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsEdward Abbey, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Chandler, Harry Crews, James W. Hall, Jim Harrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, Raymond H. Ring, John Updike (Shared favorites)

About me Batty is the catalog-compulsive alter ego of a longtime freelance writer and fledgling novelist. Why batty? Because he is, and also because he is fond of bats: excellent creatures, fuzzy, fancy flyers, essential to a healthy environment, as well as being linked in the popular imagination with the vampire, that sturdiest and most protean of literary conceits and cultural totems. While his current obsession is the novel he's been incubating for the past 15 years, he pays the bills (in a good month) as restaurant critic for Sarasota Magazine and as a contributor to the St. Petersburg Times' arts and entertainment pages. But back to that novel. Magdalena is the story of Charlie Lightfoot, a surpassing peculiar young man, and his darling Lily, in honor of whom the word libidinous was coined. It is set mainly in the haunted borderlands of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, desert country the author knows well. For an annotated TOC and to read the Prologue, please drop by his website, www.pictograph.com.

About my library Prominent on batty's shelves just now are The Sierra Pinacate by the late Julian Hayden, better known to batty and Hayden's countless other friends on both sides of the smudgy Arizona-Sonora line as Don Julian, and Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink by Tom Miller, another old friend and desert rat. As for his online catalog, batty has a sizable backlog of books to enter, but that's okay. It's good always to have something pleasant simmering on the back burner to nourish an idle moment.

Homepagehttp://www.pictograph.com

Real nameJohn Bancroft

LocationFlorida

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceDec 20, 2006