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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...
Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2009
...by James Patterson Books scheduled for release in January: ? ?The Unnamed,? by Joshua Ferris ? ?Happy,? by Alex Lemon Leave a Comment Name (required) Website By clicking 'Submit Comment', you agree to our Terms of Service. We do not publish...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 31, 2009
...for years. As a result of the book, the brothers have reunited. The power of art! Happy by Alex Lemon (Jan. 2010, Scribner) was another Book Buzz standout. An amazing story, said Bill Cusumano of Nicolas Books in Ann Arbor, Mich. Lemon was a...
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...
MediumAtLarge.net, May 21, 2009
...Futter - VP, Editor in Chief, Grand Central Publishing with Leila Meacham's ROSES Alexis Gargagliano - Editor, Alex Lemon's HAPPY Harriet Popham Rigney - Executive Editor, Tor Books with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's A MEMORY OF LIGHT Ben Sevier...



