A collection of short fiction, personal stories, essays, profiles, humor, poetry and profiles culled from the first 5 years of the webzine, Ducts.org. Spend an afternoon with comedian, Pat Cooper,; dive into the uncensored mind of a streaker; tune into an edition of the Ricki Lake Show in which she interviews four characters from Wuthering Heights; sing and dance your way into the Bill Riley Talent Competition; visit the Louisiana State Penitentiary rodeo; find out who the real Boogie Man is; and learn How Not To Greet Famous People.

How Not to Greet Famous People: The Best Stories from Ducts.org

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The Sentence, A Family's Prison Memoir, chronicles the years leading up to and through attorney Jerry Kraig's incarceration for conspiracy to defraud the IRS of one of his client's, pornography czar, Reuben Sturman, taxes, including the devastating consequences for the family as seen through the eyes of his wife, artist/writer Gene Kraig.

The Sentence: A Family's Prison Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Gene Kraig

Professionals & Academics

Life in the 1930s and '40s on the small family farms in eastern Iowa was threadbare and tough. It was made endurable by the web of humanity spun by the men and women who built their lives there. The land itself seemed indifferent to its relentless exploitation and yet people, towns, farms and landscape endured in some fashion. The best parts of the farm stayed with Richard Willis when he left, while the rest is long gone.

Long Gone

Richard Willis

"Between Heaven and Earth: An Adventure in Free Fall" by Doug Garr chronicles the author's coming of age as a skydiver between 1969 and 1982. It's an exciting chronicle of the feelings he experienced. Along the way, he profiles many of the zany characters he met on this unique thrill ride through the skies.

Between Heaven and Earth: An Adventure in Free Fall

Garr, Doug

Memoirs

Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money. When a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, Harry Janus, he smiles and takes the cash.

Swann's Last Song

Charles Salzberg

"Have you ever tried to convince someone you weren't crazy?" So begins the seduction journal of the unnamed narrator of Sloth. It's not a mere hypothetical because he's fallen in love with a TV exercise girl named Holly Servant; he must convince her of his sanity from afar if he's ever to woo her in the flesh. But how can he win her heart when he's a waiter--that is, a man who waits in long lines for a living? How can he cut the line to her affections? Women like Holly don't date the likes of him. So he assumes the identity of his friend Zezel, a former newspaper columnist who once wrote under the pen name "Mark Goldblatt." But in this satire of postmodernism, which is also a postmodern satire, nothing is what it seems. Does Holly actually exist, or is she a figment of the narrator's imagination? Does Zezel actually exist, or is he an alter-ego who takes over the narrator's journal? Does the narrator have a name, or is he just an excuse to ask questions? (And who's writing this cover copy, come to think of it?) Nothing of the sort concerns Detective Lacuna. He only wants to know who murdered the male prostitute who used to cruise for tricks out down the block from the narrator's apartment. Sloth is a timeless love story with a rim shot core, a pulse-quickening mystery wrapped in knish skin. You'll never look at your reflection the same way after you've read it.

Sloth

Literature & Fiction

Goldblatt, Mark

Literary

First came the coffee. Then, the handshake. We had an agreement. In a matter of days I was transported from upper Manhattan to a place with no name, situated at the very edge of the world. Somalia, a place of seemingly endless death, tribal warfare and thousand-year-old vendettas. Utterly flummoxed and breathtakingly out of my element, I felt like a complete, confused, quixotic impostor. Mine is the story of an American surgeon stunningly unprepared for the events in which he was about to engage.

The Dude 'Du Jour' of Somalia

Eli Shaber

THE HOUSE ON CRASH CORNER and Other Unavoidable Calamities is about the sad, hilarious and meaningful ways we deal with the crises in our lives. You can't spell joy without the oy. True stories range from growing up in Brooklyn as the Yiddish speaking daughter of Holocaust survivors, to my work with cancer patients, to life as a mom of two young boys, to becoming a cancer patient myself.

The House on Crash Corner

Greenstein, Clinical Psychologist and Psycho-Oncologist Mindy

Parenting & Relationships

The book is a memoir of Dan Wakefield's move to New York City in the 1950s.

New York in the Fifties

WAKEFIELD, Dan

Historical

What if growing old didn’t have to mean being obsolete or over the hill? What if, instead, it meant being classic, venerable and wise? What if it meant writing the novel you’ve always wanted to write, or painting, or singing, or teaching, or traveling to a place you’ve always dreamed of? In “gOld,” Harry J. Getzov introduces us to many of the extraordinary senior citizens he has interviewed from all walks of life as part of the Eldercation project he created to promote the concept of positive aging. Kitchen tables, living room and den sofas, front porches and offices—these are just some of the settings in which Getzov has visited with hundreds of older individuals. These special visits provide these people with an opportunity to talk freely about lessons learned and wisdom gained, and share their feelings about aging—demonstrating that life after 65 can, indeed, be passionate and beautiful. “Time and time again, a visit with a senior gives me the chance to pause and, in a manner of speaking, take a vacation from myself. It also provides an opportunity to engage in something that, unfortunately, seems to be more and more elusive in these fast and sleek times: a conversation. Not a text. Not a Facebook message. Not an on-the-run cell-phone chat. I’m talking about an actual, old-fashioned, one-on-one, face-to-face, eye-to-eye conversation. There is something almost magical about these personal interactions that, in my humble opinion, their high-tech counterparts simply cannot duplicate. . . . Visits with older individuals present us with special opportunities to learn and expand our minds, opening portals to all kinds of fascinating worlds. Conversations take the form of mini motion pictures or documentaries, all of them narrated firsthand by individuals who have amassed a wealth of knowledge enriched by one precious ingredient—an ingredient not yet available in the same quantity to younger people: experience. Lots of experience." (Harry J. Getzov—Excerpt from “gOld”). A precious treasure lies hidden within our older population waiting to be revealed. “gOld” opens the door to its revelation and suggests that it is time to change the way we think about aging and about our elder citizens.

Gold: The Extraordinary Side of Aging Revealed Through Inspiring Conversations

Harry J. Getzov

Self-Help

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