She is reading his scribblings aloud as he does her hair, and it sounds to him like something all unique and full of biblical harmonies and hard knuckles of truth. He wonders if all writers feel like prophets. He can feel his ears munching on his own words as she reads them. He can hear himself roaring and saying things he didn’t know he knew.

—Jasper John, The Holy Book of the Beard

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Excerpts

• Minnesota Memoirs
  
• Murdering the Mom
  
• The Altar of the Body
  
• The Book of Mamie
  
• The Holy Book of the Beard
  
• The Law of Falling Bodies
  
• The Willow Man
  
• Too Cool
  

Duff Brenna at Davy Byrnes Pub in Dublin during The Willow Man book tour. See a resemblance to Stevie Ray Vaughn?

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Davy Byrnes Pub billed as Dublin’s most famous pub, where James Joyce (and his fictional character Leopold Bloom) often dined Stevie Ray Vaughn one of North America’s most electrifying blues guitarists Top of Page