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Larry Winfield attended his first poetry reading at Weeds in Chicago in 1990. Over the next twelve years he hosted open mics, featured at many local venues and festivals, organized the protest poetry reading at the ' 96 Democratic Convention, hosted a weekly poetry and jazz show on pirate station Guerilla Love Radio as DJ Merlot, published poetry books and the online/print zines Liquid Glyph and City Table Review, and performed in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, NY, LA and SF, and with ensemble groups Brothers in Verse and the many versions of his poetry band Brass Orchid. He currently lives in L A, produces the "Sundown Lounge" podzine, and his latest project, the horror/SF podcast novel, Banjo Strings.

favourite books

Anything by Issac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delaney, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Nikki Giovanni, Carlos Castenada, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, Agatha Christie, Wole Soyinka, Alice Walker, Robert Anton Wilson, Spider Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Wanda Coleman, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Theodore Sturgeon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed, Anne McCaffrey, Dan Brown, Alexander Dumas, Ben Bova... There are many other authors I've read and enjoyed - this short list is just off the top of my head.

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my bookshelf

Dime

Declan Hobbes

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Appetites (Revised)

JD Revene

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Banjo Strings

Larry Winfield

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Banjo Strings

Larry Winfield

Banjo Strings is an epic and graphic tale of antebellum ghosts, supernatural spies, and a den of iniquity amid the Red Maple and Magnolia trees.

A pair of plantation slave ghosts carry out a mission of vengeance against the first-born sons of two old and prominent plantation families in Wainwright County, Mississippi. This tightly kept secret is exposed in a letter to "The File Room," a new cable and internet show that investigates and documents supernatural phenomena. The program is sponsored by a secret organization that has monitored and policed the supernatural world for over a century, until their cover was blown.

And that's just the beginning...

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JANVIER wrote 168 days ago

Hello Larry, Suppose the day is fine. Could you do me a favour and ....

Dania wrote 196 days ago

Hi Larry. I read and backed Bajo Strings a couple of weeks ago and wa....

pattimari wrote 203 days ago

Thank you for supporting Time Heals, Forgivness Mends and keeping it....

Dania wrote 206 days ago

Hi. I read and backed Banjo Strings a few days ago and wanted to know....

TomW wrote 208 days ago

Dear Larry, Have we swapped? If not, are you interested? Regard....

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I wrote 208 days ago

To all commenters / critiques: Thank you all so much for taking the time to peruse my first attempt at a fully fleshed out novel. The comments are insightful and will greatly aid my assessment and revamping of the story when I get down to the task of rereading and editing from the beginning. T... view book

I wrote 248 days ago

Hey, Yeah, chapter 2 is a bit jarring, but that was my intention (the 'WTF' effect). I must admit, I never read Lovecraft, but I may have to skim through a tale or two to compare notes. I didn't realize I never plainly described Amanda, good catch. Critiques of technical details, like spel... view book

I wrote 252 days ago

Clive Barker? Cool, I'll take that. I've also been compared to David Mitchell... view book

I wrote 254 days ago

Yes, Augustus was dreaming of a past event when it was interrupted by the ghost, and the gun was hidden beneath one of the slave cabins. And yeah, Ch. 2 is very explicit, though integral to the story. There are many sex scenes throughout the book, but only where necessary. If I bring Ch. 7 here,... view book

I wrote 254 days ago

I read the first 6 chapters to get a feel for the story, and found the 'old world' voice a nice touch. This may be a fantasy, but I was impressed by the author's restraint; not jamming the story at the outset with an overload of fantastic creatures (like those movies set in Chicago where the 'L' tra... view book

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