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  • Faded banner image with text reading Excerpt The Marvels of Youth by Tim Bowling. Image of the book cover on the right, Open Book logo on the left.
    Faded banner image with text reading Excerpt The Marvels of Youth by Tim Bowling. Image of the book cover on the right, Open Book logo on the left.
    December 11, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's Raw & Atmospheric Return to the 1970s, The Marvels of Youth

    The Vietnam War, hippies, Watergate. The mid-to-late 70s were a time of turmoil and change, and the last days of a pre-Reaganomics, tech-boom world that was lurking around the corner, with Star Wars: ...

  • Wrap Up 2021 with an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's Meditative Book of Essays, The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird
    Wrap Up 2021 with an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's Meditative Book of Essays, The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird
    December 22, 2021

    Wrap Up 2021 with an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's Meditative Book of Essays, The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird

    For our final post of 2021, we're sharing an excerpt from a truly special book. Tim Bowling, the award winning author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, draws on sixty years ...

  • Read an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's The Heavy Bear!
    Read an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's The Heavy Bear!
    August 16, 2017

    Read an Excerpt from Tim Bowling's The Heavy Bear!

    The main character of The Heavy Bear (Wolsak & Wynn) by award winning novelist and poet Tim Bowling is a man named Tim Bowling.And that's far from the strangest detail in this rollicking, moving, ...

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