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Oct

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2011

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Mohr Free Stuff!

Our Face Out today is for an intriguing new novel by San Francisco author Josh Mohr (excerpt here). Jonathan Evison calls Mohr the “bard of the underbelly,” and, true to these wastrel-ly ways, he did get kicked out of an event at a recent buy flagyl online bookshow in Portland, though it wasn't his fault …

Oct

18

2011

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Damascus by Joshua Mohr

“As Damascus, Mohr's third novel, is set in a bar, the comparisons to Charles Bukowski are inevitable. However, Mohr's worldview is far less caustic than Bukowski's. He gives readers a novel that pulls off the nearly impossible feat of breaking their hearts while lifting their souls and finds a lust for life in characters that …