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Meet Chris Angermann
Chris Angermann's checkered career has included building houses, driving a cab (for the Terminal Taxi Company in New Haven, Connecticut) teaching kindergarten, high school, college and graduate school, and directing plays and operas in New York and regional theaters. He has been writing all along - often between the cracks of his other pursuits - on a wide variety of subjects for newspapers and magazines, including book and movie reviews, features on healthy living issues and real estate articles. He has also penned several unpublished plays and screenplays and has ghostwritten three books.
Chris runs Bardolf & Company and serves as editor-in-chief for New Chapter Publisher, a small press in Sarasota, Florida. He is a former president of the Florida Authors and Publishers Association (FAPA).
Over the past 12 years, he has had his hands in the publication of more than 75 books, a number of which have won national awards.
US Department of Redundancy Department
In the relentless drive to make everything sound fresh and exciting, copywriters, spin doctors, politicos and media mavens have gone byzantine and baroque when promoting themeselves, their issues and their products. But it's really just unnecessary padding and window dressing - the sorry way of most American advertising: All dressed up and no place to go.
So in the interest of keeping our language (and thought chambers) as uncluttered as possible, I have opened here a branch of the DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT. Its mission is to list, label and poke fun at the most egriegous transgressions. If you catch someone mindlessly repeating such inane phrases, you can mess with them for their own good by setting them straight.
Egregious Transgressions Against Good Prose
PREMIERE EVENT as in "Don't miss this Premiere Event!" - a favorite staple in TV promotions for upcoming shows. A premiere is an event, so they're really saying, "Don't miss this opening event event." Duh!
Join the Campaign
I welcome others to join in the campaign against verbal overkill and send me their favorite transgressions or superfluous verbiage.
Booked For Pleasure
As a fan of mysteries and other genre fiction, I wrote a bunch of 400 word reviews for a Mensa newsletter. The column was called "Booked for Pleasure," and I got one monthly page, which equated to 400 words, give or take. It was a fun challenge to cram as much as possible into such limited space and convey what made the books I tackled unique. Most were mysteries and sci-fi/fantasy novels, my favorte genres, but I basically wrote about whatever tickled my fancy. I make them available here for readers interested in the works of wordsmiths who care equally about the story and how they tell it. In some cases, I've added a line or two, or adjusted numbers to make them up-to-date, but I've left the essential narrative alone, trusting that it will stand the test of time.
Ed McBain, "The Swedes," Tony Hillerman, Janwillem van de Wetering
Favorite Authors and Inspiration
John Berger
Ways of Seeing
About Looking
A Fortunate Man
Lu Xun
Collected Stories
Old Tales Retold
Wild Grass
Edward T. Hall
The Hidden Dimension
The Dance of Life
Beyond Culture
Peter Barnes
The Bewitched
The Ruling Class
Red Noses, Black Death
Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The Laughing Policeman
The Terrorists
The Locked Room
Michael Connell
City of Bones
The Narrows
Trunk Music
William Gibson
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Ed McBain
Cinderella
Eight Black Horsees
Poison
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
Cryptonomicon
The Baroque Cycle
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hell's Angels
Kingdom of Fear