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Happy will be released on October 12, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Happy will be released on December 29, 2009 in Hardcover
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Happy will be released on December 29, 2009 in eBook
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Happy is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 29, 2009
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Dallas Morning News, June 20, 2010
...Editor's note: On this Father's Day, author and poet Alex Lemon writes about bridging the distance between him and his father – with a revelatory moment at the zoo. In the parking lot of the Fort Worth Zoo, my father...
MinnPost, March 26, 2010
...tenderhearted, flower-picking girls, a gander at these books will knock that fallacy flat. Macalester grad and former professor Alex Lemon has a new collection out, "Fancy Beasts" (Milkweed Editions), which tells a less polished, more brutal version of...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 20, 2010
...Press, and his artwork has been exhibited at the Weisman Museum of Art. Macalester graduate and Minnesota native Alex Lemon had an essay, 'Heartdusting,' published in the winter 2010 issue of Southern Review. Lemon is the author of a memoir, 'Happy,' and...
New York Times, March 20, 2010
...THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965.By Sam Stephenson.268 pp. Knopf. $40.Smith obsessively d life around his Manhattan building and the musicians who went there to jam. Above, a detail from a...
Huffington Post, February 25, 2010
...Sickness Shows Us What We Are: I'm not sure where this quote came from, but for years it has lived on a scrap of paper in the top drawer of my desk. And the other day when I was searching through the detritus for a phone number, I ended up holding these...
Dallas Morning News, January 24, 2010
...Sometimes Alex Lemon had hangovers so bad, so staggering ? "I must have drunk a bottle of Drano last night" ? that he felt as if the inside of his head were...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 24, 2010
...Wow, no sooner do we write about one Alex Lemon book ('Happy') than he comes out with another. 'Happy,' Lemon's memoir about suffering a stroke while a student at Macalester College in St. Paul, was published this month...
Dallas Morning News, January 24, 2010
...Sometimes Alex Lemon had hangovers so bad, so staggering ? "I must have drunk a bottle of Drano last night" ? that he felt as if the inside of his head were...
Austin Chronicle, January 22, 2010
...The title of Alex Lemon's new memoir – Happy – is somewhat a sleight of hand. "Happy" was one of Lemon's several nicknames at Macalester College in Minnesota, where in 1997 he...
New York Times, January 15, 2010
...Alex Lemon is the author of three volumes of poetry and a memoir, ?Happy.? He teaches at Texas Christian University. What are you working on now? Fixing the shower that...
Star-Telegram, January 15, 2010
...By CHRISTOPHER KELLY As a freshman at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., Alex Lemon led a typical student’s life. He laughed and partied with his buddies on the school’s baseball team. He drank a little too much. He sometimes skipped class...
MinnPost, January 13, 2010
...Turns out, if the writer is a former Minnesotan with a hair-raising, page-turner of a memoir, they will. Alex Lemon packed both Micawber’s and Magers & Quinn over the weekend, reading from his third book of poetry, “Fancy Beasts” (Milkweed...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 3, 2010
...Alex Lemon is warm and affable on the phone, and it's easy to see how he acquired the nickname 'Happy' as a freshman at Macalester College. But as the title...
PowellsBooks.Blog, June 7, 2010
...Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon Reviewed by Jenny Dunning Rain Taxi Nicknamed "Happy" by his college friends and teammates, the Alex Lemon revealed in his memoir Happy is anything but -- either emotionally or...
Yes, Starlings! Yes!, January 5, 2010
...world. Read it here at the PW website, along with reviews of Brandon Downing's stupendous new book, Alex Lemon, Brenda Iijima & Liz Bradfield's new ones & Rob Schlegel's first book. Good haul of poetry in this issue. As you should know by now, the book...
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories, January 1, 2010
...ordinary man who must go underground (literally) to escape those hunting him. Happy: A Memoir By Alex Lemon Until he suffered a stroke his freshman year at college, Alex Lemon was a hard-partying, popular college student. He sought solace in drink...
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories, January 1, 2010
...man who must go underground (literally) to escape those hunting him. Happy: A Memoir By Alex Lemon Until he suffered a stroke his freshman year at college, Alex Lemon was a hard-partying, popular college student. He sought solace in drink and...
Entertainment Showcase: Must-See Stories - clevela, December 29, 2009
...book editor of The Plain Dealer. Recommend Recommend ( 0 ) Print this Email this Share this: Previous story: Alex Lemon makes 'Happy' harrowing and upbeat, writing with a poet's touch about the illness that overtook his jock life Next story : In...
42Blips - Top Science Fiction News, Videos, and Bl, November 4, 2009
...fabulous Janet Parker, created stunning covers for each). In the dread corner, look for Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Alex Lemon, Matthea Harvey, and other doomsayers. Flying the ... Reactions ...
Read Write Poem, September 21, 2009
...s like drinking a bottle of champagne in a roadside bathroom.” Hallelujah Blackout , by Alex Lemon Lemon’s second book. In this book, he abandons the crystal-sharp, cool distance that inhabited the poems of his first book, Mosquito...
