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Andrew S. Guthrie

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Andrew S. Guthrie was born in New York City, lived for most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts, moved to Hong Kong in 2005. His writing can be found online at Asian Cha, in the print magazine Poetry Is Dead and in his Pop Matters column Vinyl Archeology . His artist edition Broken Records: 1960 -1969 was collected by The Brooklyn Museum of Art” in 2010. His book of poetry Alphabet was released in April 2015 through Proverse Publishing Hong Kong, and his cultural history Paul's Records was released through Blacksmith Books in October 2015. ...more

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Andrew S. Guthrie What are the root causes of “writer’s block”? It’s different for everyone. You're the writer who has written 3 massive novels in a row and then you ge…moreWhat are the root causes of “writer’s block”? It’s different for everyone. You're the writer who has written 3 massive novels in a row and then you get stuck. Maybe you should just stay stuck. You’re the writer who squeezes out drips and drabs, who’s itching for an “oeuvre” and nothing comes? Try writing about “nothing”, the ultimate subject matter . . . a poem about stasis, a novel about boredom, an essay on dull silence . . . (less)

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Andrew S. Guthrie The best thing? The one (just one) thing that makes you jump out of bed in the morning and run for pen and paper even before the coffee is brewing? Un…moreThe best thing? The one (just one) thing that makes you jump out of bed in the morning and run for pen and paper even before the coffee is brewing? Unh Unh . . . . maybe you can’t even afford a cup of coffee. But you can try and write yourself out of that mess . . . just make sure you hide your pen and paper from the prison guards / mom and dad / you authoritarian high school teacher so your ambitions aren’t prematurely thwarted and your materials don’t get confiscated. (less)

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Average rating: 4.5 · 16 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Paul's Records: How a Refugee from the Vietnam War Found Success Selling Vinyl on the Streets of Hong Kong 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alphabet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1977 / 1984 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celebrities, Semi-Celebrities & ordinary people it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Andrew Guthrie made a comment on Daniel’s review of The Memorial " Interesting about Woolf as when reading "The Memorial" I thought - clearly Isherwood has read his Woolf - all those exterior descriptions countered by ...more "
Mar 02, 2024 05:17PM · see review
Andrew Guthrie rated a book really liked it The Grifters by Jim Thompson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's hard to know, with Thompson, whether it deserves a 3 or a 4 star (I won't go lower than three with any book I bother to review, otherwise its not worth reviewing and I'm not going to go all negative), seeing as he was a pulp writer, cranking the ...more
Feb 27, 2024 07:04PM · like · see review
Andrew Guthrie rated a book really liked it Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Give it 4 stars, fine. Because when I started it was like "he just threw this together and the publisher, given Shepard's renown, said fine". While it does start to turn into a contiguous narrative at the end of the book when he recounts life on the ...more
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Andrew Guthrie rated a book it was amazing Tigers are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Jean Rhys	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I can give this 5 stars because when Rhys was finally and fully acknowledged when in her 80's, she replied, apropos the sensibility of her stories and characters, "It's too late". I'm never sure if I've read all of Rhys and then I come across somethi ...more
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Andrew Guthrie and 14 other people liked Moira's review of Tigers are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): "This has one of my favourite passages about reading ever in it: "....one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or something -- because few of the English ones have the" Read more of this review »
Feb 27, 2024 06:38PM · see review