Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
REMINDER!! I will be reading from Running at Night as well as a couple of new works August 27th at Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd., St. more...
Focal Point, Poetry at the Point, poetry reading, Running at Night, St. Louis
I've been asked, since the release of my novel Baxter's Friends whether I am familiar with the novelist Jonathan Franzen and whether his writing influenced me. The answers are- yes, I am familiar with him and no, he has not influenced my writing, for several reasons I will set out hereinafter. I assume I am asked these questions because we both are originally from the more...
Baxter's Friends, dick-lit, Harry Crews, Jonathan Franzen, Ned Randle, Oprah Winfrey, St. Jude, St. Louis, The Corrections
Love’s Alchemy Review by O. Victor Miller Running at Night: Collected Poems 1976-2012 By Ned Randle I don’t read much poetry anymore, never write about a living poet, never would’ve discovered Running at Night by Ned Randle without a personal connection to the poet, his wife Rita, his niece, his deceased sister Carol, to whose memory this thin book is dedicated more...
aging, Cahokia Mounds, O. Victor Miller, poetry, Running at Night, St. Louis, Vic Miller
Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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