The Book of David: Capturing the Spirit of the Great American Short StoryBy: David NovickFrom Boston to Aspen, Nantucket, Maui, and elsewhere around the globe, David Novick has led an unusual life. This book, his collection of true short stories, illustrates the incredible range of experiences Novick has had over the past seven decades. Memorable adventures, troubling loss, and the humor of everyday occurrences are behind many of his stories.Some stories are moving,...

The poems contained in The Great Outdoors are a further realization of the author’s journey toward ‘naturalism’. The structural elements point in this direction. Love, history, family, business, travel, is the palette David Novick works from. Vibrations create sound and language captures that sound. By applying that language one hopes to unlock the existential answers that exist in the natural occurrences of the everyday. The poems were written between 2016 and 2018 with the exception of ‘...

A hologram is a two-dimensional image, which through the use of laser and light appears to be three dimensional. As one moves around the image, it will shift and change according to the viewer’s perspective which may further perplex or illuminate. It is on this premise that I continue the exploration of language for sound and definition began in my first collection, Noises from the Garage, in this second volume of poems written between 2011 and 2013. Giving voice to characters and objects ...

This collection of poems contains an epilogue. My original plan was to conclude the book with the poem The Serious Side of Funny Money. However, I wanted to increase the page count, therefore the need for some additional poems. So as not to detract from my original vision for Keepsake, I decided to refer to the additional poems as an epilogue. I now think of the collection as a blended family. Please enjoy my blended family Keepsake.

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The enhanced third edition of this classic set of interviews includes: Terence K. McKenna, Riane Eisler & David Loye, Robert Trivers, Nick Herbert, Ralph Abraham, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Rupert Sheldrake, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Colin Wilson, Oscar Janiger, John C. Lilly, Nina Graboi, Laura Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen LaBerge, and Rosemary Woodruff Leary."What distinguishes these 'voices from the edge' is their passionate self-actualization and their profound and str...

Millions of Americans have complaints about, or disorders of, the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, or pancreas, all of which comprise the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This book provides accurate, reliable, and up-to-date information on the most common GI disorders.Written by a gastroenterologist with decades of clinical and research experience, A Gastroenterologist’s Guide to Gut Health provides the advice that Dr. Novick gives to patients in his practice every d...

Some jobs are dirty. Some jobs are easy. But in Hows Business? 101 Hilarious Jokes That Work For Kids - Clever Jokes That Will Have You Laughing Out Loud About Funny Jobs and Careers all the jobs are funny! You'll laugh out loud when you find out how these new business are going. The elevator business has its ups and downs. Repairing chairs? It'll keep you on the edge of your seat! These clever and unexpected twists will have you looking at work in a newhilariousway!

Set in a near future when the world's largest conglomerate, known simply as The Corporation, rules without opposition, an Arena has been built on seized inner-city land one hundred square blocks in area.Inside The Arena, bets are placed for or against teams whose sole purpose is to destroy other team's inhabited property through the destructive power of giant electromagnetic cranes that throw steel dice from inside what is known as the Chaos Pit, while appreciation/depreciation calc...

Management, career and life tips presented as basic, relevant, thoughtful and fun messages. Because most people have a verse, slogan, tidbit, motto or quote to live by, these can be used as personal mission statements. Hopefully, readers will think, laugh, pass them along, make a screensaver, tweet or put them in fancy frames next to the work mission statements they don't understand.

This is a collection of pieces, Short Stories and Very short Stories, about some of the experiences that appear on the screen in my brain from time to time. To get the honor of a private screening like that must mean that they are events from my youth that left an impression. I have also been told that it's so interesting to hear about OLDEN TIMES. These events did happen about sixty years ago.