Tag Archives: Dave Macpherson

Paying for the The Abortion (the Richard Brautigan book)

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August 5, 2015 by author

by David Macpherson

In the fall of 1994 I didn’t have a TV, so I bought used paperbacks and read them for the evening’s entertainment. It was Amherst, Massachusetts, and downtown had 6 or 7 bookstores, most of them with … Continue reading→

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At the Slush Pile Saloon

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February 1, 2013 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Dave Macpherson

A prose poem walked into a flash fiction bar and ordered a Vodka Gimlet. The bartender, a Faulkner-esque run-on sentence, didn’t even twitch a comma; he just got out the booze and started making the magic. The … Continue reading→

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Bookstores

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June 7, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Dave Macpherson

We were in Wordsworth’s Books in Harvard Square, where we had been many times before. We were going through the stacks of poetry and I stopped, looked again at what I thought I noticed, and said, “Ah, … Continue reading→

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