Between Panic and Desire

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2008

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Website:	http://www.amazon.com/Between-Panic-Desi...
Company Overview:	. "Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world."
Mission:	. Impossible
Products:	. Between Panic and Desire, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

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1. Which of the following would you advocate as an appropriate replacement father for the author of this memoir?

1 post by 1 person. Updated on Apr 25, 2008 at 5:41 AM.

According to Camille Paglia, how necessary are fathers?

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May 14

Between Panic and Desire added new photos to Panic and Desire.

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Between Panic and Yoko

Oronte Churm over at insidehighered.com has published a wide-ranging interview with Dinty W. Moore on subjects that include panic, desire, writing brief, John and Yoko, and the every-popular truth in memoir equation

April 25

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Congratulations to Curtis White

President Al Bowman has appointed Curtis White, Department of English, as Distinguished Professor effective August 16, 2007. The Distinguished Professor designation allows the University to honor faculty ...

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Kevin wrote at 11:17am on May 10th, 2008

I added a review at Amazon. Still working on a more formal review and some Q&A questions for the blog.
Best,
KH

Lisa wrote at 9:14am on May 7th, 2008

Hi Dinty. It looks like Panic won out over Desire, because the Erie Book Store already has run out of copies. I placed an order today and will review it on my blog (as long as you haven't revealed too many secrets from our shared youth) Congratulations! Lisa

Tim wrote at 8:35am on May 5th, 2008

Fan of Between Panic & Desire? Check out the review at newrivervoice.com: http://newrivervoice.com/archives/1207

Between Panic and Desire wrote at 8:38am on May 4th, 2008

SHARING SOME RECENT REVIEWS

“Moore forges a brisk, incisive, funny, sometimes silly, yet stealthily affecting memoir in essays and skits, a ‘generational autobiography,’ and good candid guy stuff. . . . Each anecdote, piece of pop-culture trivia, and frankly confessed panic and desire yields a chunk of irony and a sliver of wisdom.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“The writing is frequently very funny; insightful, too, especially Moore’s belief that humans are generally delusional when it comes to their expectations vs. what is realistically possible. . . . The narrative has its poignant moments, particularly in Moore’s recollections of his father. And despite his fractured take on the world, his message is essentially hopeful. Moore, it seems, is moving on.”—Robert Kelly, Library Journal

“Between Panic and Desire is more autopsy than memoir—a strange new hybrid. It's a fantasy of letting go of the things that have haunted Moore his entire life.

Sarah wrote at 6:16am on April 25th, 2008

If Mr. Green Jeans was Dinty's aspirational father, and if urban legend was this same Mr. Green Jeans was Frank Zappa's father, which of the following are trrue:
1. Dinty needs to develop an avuncular relationship with Moon Unit and Dweezle.
2. Dinty is to the Mothers of Invention what Stuart Sutcliffe was to The Beatles.
3. Wowie zowie, your loves a treat.
4. That since Richard Nixon was ALSO Dinty's aspirational father, Nixon and Zappa were really the same person.

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