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Looking for Love; A Utopian Legacy Turned Toxic

February 23, 2022May 17, 2023 - by Ric Royer

On William T. Love, Love Canal, and Model City. Originally published in Western New York Heritage Magazine, Winter 2022.

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The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson

December 16, 2021May 17, 2023 - by Ric Royer

In many ways, my personal experience with life after public shaming has gone exactly as one might expect: depressing, painful, and weird. Yet, at some point over the past three …

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Protected: Keeping Up with Carver; A Review of Lisa Carver’s No Land’s Man

June 6, 2023June 8, 2023 - by Ric Royer

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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The Long and Short of it

October 13, 2022June 6, 2023 - by Ric Royer

I don’t normally think much about the uniqueness of the relationship that I’m in, because I’m in it. Then there are times when I’m walking down the street with my …

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99

February 19, 2022March 19, 2022 - by Ric Royer

Finally watched that Woodstock 99 doc on a plane. Figured I should since I live in that neck of the woods. What a fine pairing of a garbage fire event …

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My Review of the First 40 Pages of My Struggle

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 - by Ric Royer

I’ve always been curious about this book, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård.   I was working in bookstores when the first book of this 2,700 page memoir of someone …

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Be sure to tell her I said hello.

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 - by Ric Royer

I overheard a guy in a diner tell his friend that his wife was having difficulties: “…her joints flare up, she moans in her sleep, psoriasis, you know. She can …

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Ric Royer review of Jeff Schneider’s “Therapists Gone Wild”

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 - by Ric Royer

[originally published on Vol. 1 Brooklyn, http://vol1brooklyn.com/2021/08/09/best-of-all-possible-worsts-a-review-of-jeff-schneiders-therapists-gone-wild/] There is nothing particularly wild about Jonathan Epstein, the main character in Jeff Schneider’s new book, Therapists Gone Wild. He’s hardly protagonist material: a sheepish, soft-spined  …

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My Hot Take on Simone Biles, Vaccines & Viking Dick

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 - by Ric Royer
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How to read poetry

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 - by Ric Royer

How to read poetry: Buy a book of poetry from a poet everyone is talking about. Skim through the book if you want, or put it straight on your bookshelf …

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Ric Royer

Ric Royer is a writer, performer, performer of writings and performer of writings. He is the founder and artistic director of Psychic Readings Co, a performance collective that has entertained, frightened and confused audiences with their interdisciplinary hysterics since 1999. The company has produced their strange brand of challenging and original theatre work at various venues in the U.S. and Europe.

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