Pete Lit

Reading

• Aldous Huxley: Brave New World [BIO]
  
  Studs Terkel: Working [BIO]

Listening

• Pylon: "Crazy" [BIO]

Writing

• "One Son Resists"
  (Green Lantern Press)
• "Clean and Bright"
  (Joyland)
• "Button"
  (Shoots and Vines)
• "Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues"
  (Shoots and Vines)
• "Moonlight"
  (decomP)
• "Quit These Hills"
  (Big Pulp)
• "Mercy Day"
  (RAGAD)
• "Deep in the Northwoods"
  (Wheelhouse Magazine)
• "Howard Holds Court"
  (Birmingham Arts Journal)
• "Waiting On a Train"
  (RAGAD)
• "Power"
  (The Clarity of Night)
• "Guaranteed"
  (Spillway Review)
• "Big Question"
  (Boston Literary Magazine)
• "This Time"
  (55 Words)
• "Immortality"
  (THE2NDHAND)
• "Freewheeling"
  (Dogmatika)
• "The Fixer"
  (Gapers Block)
• "Ralph's Last Call"
  (The Angler)
• "Can't Be Happy Today, But Tomorrow"
  (Skive Magazine)
• "Mighty Casey"
  (Zisk)
• "Ectoplasm"
  (Storyglossia)
• "Captions Without Photos"
  (Gapers Block)
• "Blown"
  (Writer's Resource Center)
• "Have A Pleasant Commute On Metra"
  (This is Grand)
• "The Retreat"
  (monochrom)
• Published Here:
  "The Copper Responds"
  "One Evening in St. Paul"
  "The Lovely Miss Underwood"
  "Insomnis"
  "We Do Not Approve"
  "The Ghoul's Evening Visit"
  Various Microfiction

More Me

• Self-Deprecating Bio
• Photo Gallery
• Old Home Page
• Email Me: pete_anderson [at] comcast [dot] net

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• Stamping Online
• Homeschooling Maddie

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• Brown Bear Software
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• Maud Newton
• Return of the Reluctant
• Bookninja
• Books for Breakfast
• Ben Tanzer
• Nick Ostdick
• Richard Grayson
• What To Wear During an Orange Alert?
• Murmurings to the Masses
• bighappyfunhouse.com
• Fading Ad Campaign

Distant Worthies

• Last Plane to Jakarta
• Ben Katchor: Hotel & Farm
• The Onion
• Salon.com
• Center for American Progress
• MoveOn
• Utne
• The Nation
• AlterNet
• TomPaine.com
• NewPages
• Tom Tomorrow - This Modern World
• Ted Rall - Political Cartoon

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Recent Reads

• George Orwell: 1984
  Brilliant, compelling, sobering. Orwell’s masterpiece is every bit as relevant today as the day it was written.
  

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• Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
  Truly great narrative on simplicity, self-sufficiency and communing with nature.
  

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• Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  Wonderful narrative of a year spent farming one's own food, eating locally and saving the planet.
  

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• Muriel Miller Branch: The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People
  Informative account of the Gullah culture of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.
  

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• Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
  Compelling discourse on the critical need for freedom and privacy for women fiction writers.
  

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• Ander Monson: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments
  Inventive essays on the writer's intriguing past and mundane commonalities of his everyday life.
  

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• C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed
  Lewis recounts his battle with grief and loss, somehow emerging with hope.
  

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• Michael Harrington: The Other America: Poverty in the Untied States
  Passionate 1962 study on the state of poverty in the richest country in the world.
  

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• Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
  Purported classic with a fascinating premise which doesn't quite deliver.
  

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• Patrick McCabe: Winterwood
  Promising but ultimately disjointed and disappointing story of love, kin, home and myth.
  

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• William Trevor: Death in Summer
  Lovely, understated novel of loneliness and a quest for belonging.
  

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• Isaac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
  Charming collection of Old World tales, of life and piety and death.
  

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• Budd Schulberg: What Makes Sammy Run?
  Devastating portrait of ambition and success in 1930s Hollywood.
  

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• Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House on the Prairie
  Classic account of 19th Century pioneer life.
  

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• Charles Simmons: Wrinkles
  Innovative and fascinating telling of an otherwise ordinary story.
  

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• Pär Lagerkvist: The Dwarf
  Powerful and furious novel of war, religion and humanity.
  

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• Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts
  Odd, bitter, angry - might be a classic, but I'm not quite sure.
  

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• Stona Fitch: Give + Take
  Offbeat caper novel of crime and philanthropy.
  

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• Erich Origen and Gan Golan: Goodnight Bush
  Quietly brutal satirical sendoff to the worst President in U.S. history.
  

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• Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down
  Four strangers consider suicide but together somehow find reason to go on.
  

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• READINGS 2001-09
  

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