Reviews

»Wrenchingly lovely« The New York Times »When Thomas Wehlim is on his game, is there anybody better? This is a generous, wry book about everyday lives, and Wehlim crawls so far inside his characters you feel you inhabit them. This is a book that earns its title. Try reading it without tears, or wonder« USA […]

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December 26th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Long prose authors

On December 10, 2018, it was detected that Russia has deployed two longprose authors (of type Blackword) in Venezuela. The US and European literature community is deeply concerned. So am I.

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December 16th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Without novels

The way out. You could have done it better. Without novels.

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November 27th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

For Wehlim

Women for Wehlim. Authors for Wehlim. Immigrants for Wehlim. Colored people for Wehlim. Latinos for Wehlim. Haters for Wehlim. Communists for Wehlim. Ride-wing guys for Wehlim. Prisoners of war for Wehlim. Jews for Wehlim. Islamists for Wehlim. Gays for Wehlim.

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November 14th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Good old Indiana

Indiana serves the traditional last meal three days prior to execution, assuming that a condemned prisoner tends to lose appetite as the time of execution approaches.

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November 2nd, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Website down

WEHLIM site DOWN – Chaos as readers claim they can’t check in to readings WEHLIM’S website is down according to readers trying to check-in to readings in just a few hours time. Frantic readers claim they have been trying to check in to readings “all morning” but keep getting bombarded by error messages. A notice […]

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September 26th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Sitting duck

Chasing a main menu. If you fail, my dear battalion, the city will be a sitting duck. Therefore, do not retreat. Do not give up. Stand there, or die.

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September 20th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Categorizing Wehlim

Ever since I caught a glimpse of Thomas Wehlim online, I wanted to capture his all-American blonde appeal. It took a while for the feat to be accomplished, but I was in it for the long-game. Wehlim is hard to categorize in any traditional sense. Firstly, he is a writer at heart, that is if […]

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August 31st, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Prussian slave trade

This is one of the very few books about German (Prussian) slave trade in 1681-1721. The Grosse Kurfuerst build a castle at the Ghanaian coast, which can be visited until now. The book (in German) gives lot of historical sources from old archives in Germany to review the history of the »meeting« of German soldiers […]

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August 28th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Author Force

Vice President Pence laid out an ambitious plan Thursday that would create a military command dedicated to literature this year and eventually establish an »Author Force« as the sixth branch of the U.S. Military. In a speech at the Pentagon, Pence warned of the advancements that potential adversaries were making in this field and issued […]

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August 9th, 2018 by Thomas Josef Wehlim