about me

Rocky Lastinger 1953-2009, R.I.P., brother.
Martin Horton; I'll remember you. R.I.P., brother

I have been writing poems and stories for over 30 years and have had them published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including, but not limited to: The Maryland Review, Spillway Review, AIM Magazine, Northern Stars Magazine, Mobius, Down in the Dirt, The Phoenix Magazine; The Oracular Tree, Spoiled Ink, Nuvein, Struggle, The Pink Chameleon, Pond Ripples, OMG Magazine, NeonBeam and the Whortleberry Press. I have also had 2 novels, “Miami Rock” and “Semper-Fi-Do-or-Die” published, both in 2007.

favourite books

Buttered Side Down---by Edna Ferber
Cool Hand Luke---by Donn Pearce
Catch-22 by---Joseph Heller
From Here to Eternity---James Jones
Slaughterhouse-Five---by Kurt Vonnegut
War and Peace---by Leo Tolstoy
The Short-Timers---by Gustav Hasford
A Rumor of War---by Philip Caputo
The Jungle, The Moneychangers, Oil---by Upton Sinclair
The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, East of Eden---by John Steinbeck
Papillon, Banco---by Henri Charriere
The Godfather---by Mario Puzo
The Friends of Eddie Coyle---by George V. Higgins
The Blue Knight; The New Centurions, The Onion Field The Black Marble---by Joseph Wanbaugh
Crime and Punishment---by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Serpico, Valachi Papers---by Peter Maas
Verdicts Out of Court---by Clarence Darrow
Hombre---by Elmore Leonard
Wired---by Bob Woodward
Dr. Zhivago---by Boris Pasternak
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich---by Aleksandr Solzhentizen
Oliver Twist---by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer---by Mark Twain
Roots---by Alex Haley
Exodus---by Leon Uris
The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline---by Pat Conroy
The Sixteenth Round---by Rubin Carter
Rope Burns---by F.X. Toole
Fat City---by Leonard Gardner
Sonny Liston was a friend of Mine---by Thom Jones
The Greatest---by Muhammad Ali
Death of a Salesman---by Arthur Miller
Call of the Wild---by Jack London
The Young Lions, Rich Man Poor Man, Beggar Man Thief, God was here but He left Early---Irwin Shaw
Tarzan of the Apes---by Edgar Rice Burroughs
War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man---by H.G. Wells
The Financier---by Theodore Dreiser
Working---by Studs Terkel
All the President's Men---by Bob Woodard & Carl Bernstein
The Street Lawyer---by John Grisham
Gone With the Wind---Margaret Mitchell
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter---Carson McCullers
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest---by Ken Kesey
Angela's Ashes, 'Tiz---by Frank McCourt
The Holy Bible---by authors known and unknown

my websites

http://www.kglaufenberg.com