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CSULA television and film student captures essence of a collaboration

5/20/2015

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When old friend, fellow traveler, and actor, writer, activist Peter Coyote invited me to join him in a reading at Barnes & Noble books in Los Angeles, Cal State LA student Ideth Hernandez was on hand to capture the moment and report the session for Cal State LA's "Arts & Letters — Firsts, Bests, & Onlys."

Ms Hernandez distilled Peter's and my joint reading session beautifully, caught the essence and message of our words and actions that night, and — perhaps most important — evoked the spirit of Peter's and my friendship. Bravo, Ideth!

Cal State LA's "Arts & Letters — Firsts, Bests, & Onlys."




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Lit journal reviews my latest 'resistance novel...

5/8/2015

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Literary critic Rachel Jagareski writes about A Bowl Full of Nails in Foreword Reviews, a quarterly trade journal.

BERKELEY, CA — May 15, 1969: It’s Bloody Thursday at People’s Park and street theater activist Gus Bessemer returns from his confrontation with the “pigs” with a butt full of birdshot and the need to skip town for a construction job a thousand miles away. In Charles Degelman’s A Bowl Full of Nails, Gus is served the titular breakfast by his live-in girlfriend the morning after he announces his solo travel plans. Foregoing this iron-rich snack, he hits the road for a transformative year with a mother lode of independent spirits in Montgomery, Colorado.
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From fact to fiction: I tore down and rebuilt the building with the blue trim and false front. It became the town community center, featured as a main character in my novel reviewed here, A Bowl Full of Nails. I'm amazed and delighted to see the fact behind the fiction still stands.
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