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When I Knew Everything
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The 1970s were coming to an end, tearing me from a time and place I dearly loved: A place full of baseball, bongs and slamming guitars. The Disney years had officially ended in ’76, when my oldest brother Joel, and guitar hero to the neighborhood, confessed...
Gentlemen
I was born in Chicago, the youngest of six, the year The Beatles found America by taking a left at Greenland. In 1968 Mom kept us in the house even though we lived safely on the city's northwest side, far from the historical, social-political melee. I had just turned six in 1970 when I suffered a...
...In a Van Down by the Ocean: A Homeless Memoir
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“I’m the Bob Dylan no one’s ever heard of: Doubt me? Fuck you…”
So why have I been reduced to living in a van down by the ocean; playing music on the streets for the last six years? It could be that I’m delusional about my talent....
THE MILFORD YEARS
The Milford Years feels like a memoir and ends up a ghost story. It takes place in and around the Milford Theater where Milwaukee Avenue meets Pulaski Avenue in Chicago in the first few years of the 1980s. At this time the Milford is the cheapest second-run movie house in town in a time when there...
Saint Monica and Her Pals
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Saint Monica And Her Pals is a novel in the form of the voices of the Santa Monica, California homeless, taking place in the first few years of the 21st century; even the earth has words to add, stories to tell. These voices and lives intertwine in this popular...
Hell Fire
The novel HELL FIRE delves into judgment, both extreme and everyday, through five people whose lives intersect in a southern California tourist town. It is presented as a mixture of Steinbeck and Vonnegut.
Christopher Smith is a writer and musician who hails from a big, creative family...
Me and Her
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Me And Her is the story of a blocked Hollywood writer going back to Chicago to retrieve his inspiration and ends meeting a woman in a neighborhood bar who eventually brings the world to his door -- an involved, violent spy-filled world. The Reader Magazines says, "...author Christopher Smith...