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@RobertCrooke.bsky.social
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Media Executive, Journalist, Author of Literary Fiction, www.robertcrooke.com, Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist 2023, LETTING THE HOUSE GO, Unsolicited Press @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
Journalist/editor Don Nordberg's inventive debut novel -- highly recommended. www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Orphans to Circumstance
It is 1927 in the fictional town of Middleton somewhere in the American Midwest. Two brothers—Amos, aged 12, and Horace, aged 10—are accepted into the ha...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Still looking for a last-minute holiday gift or a stocking stuffer idea? Don't worry--LETTING THE HOUSE GO, my graciously received novel of 2022, remains widely available from its publisher, Unsolicited Press, from Asterism Books, Amazon, B&N, and Bookshop.org share.google/VcPwgSUjvjRo...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In a Nazi-Era Filmmaker’s Compromises, a Novelist Finds Reasons to Fear www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
A Novelist Finds Unsettling Echoes in a Nazi-Era Filmmaker’s Compromises
Daniel Kehlmann wrote “The Director” only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My updated entry in the Poets & Writers Magazine author directory. www.pw.org/directory/wr...
Robert Crooke
Over the years Robert has been a journalist, media executive, teacher, and author. He has contributed book reviews and literary essays to Heavy Feather Review and Exacting Clam. His poetry has been pu...
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January 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
From Joan Baum, "Baum on Books," NPR/WSHU-FM www.wshu.org/podcast/baum...
Book Review: Letting The House Go
A well-known 19th century artist from Long Island plays a key role in a new novel by Robert Crooke.
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November 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM
My latest novel, LETTING THE HOUSE GO, (Unsolicited Press) was praised by KIRKUS as a "restrained, subtle...and moving marriage of Long Island lore, art history, and family drama...a poignant meditation on loss." And it has earned distinction as a 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist.
November 30, 2024 at 3:30 PM